Person:Daniel Webber (1)

The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (16:756).

Daniel Webber, York (also given Old York).Private, Capt. Samuel Darby's co., Col. James Scammon’s (30th) Regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 4, 1775; service, 3 mos. 5 days; also, company return [probably Oct., 1775], including abstract of pay to last of July, 1775; also, order for money in lieu of bounty coat dated Cambridge, Oct. 28, 1775 [name crossed out on order]; also, list of men mustered subsequent to Feb. 8, 1777, by Joseph Bragdon, Jr., Muster Master for York Co., dated York, Feb. 20, 1777; Capt. Samuel Derby’s co., Col. John Bailey’s Regt.; residence, York; engaged for town of York; reported received State bounty; also, Sergeant, 2d co., Col. John Bailey's Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, Capt. Samuel Darby's (2d) co., Col. Bailey's Regt.; company return dated Valley Forge, Jan. 25, 1778; also, Sergeant, Col. Bailey's Regt.; list of officers promoted in the Continental Army and for whom warrants were made out (year not given); said Webber reported promoted to Ensign; also, Ensign, Col. Bailey's Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, descriptive return of men belonging to Capt. Hayward's co., 2d Mass. Regt., made by said Webber, Ensign Commandant, dated Hutts West Point, Jan. 25, 1781. Daniel served until June 1783. He bought land in Penobscot, Maine, in 1794, which he cleared and made into a farm; sold it in 1805; resided thereafter in nearby Brooksville on another farm he developed. He was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until 1827. Daniel was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 14 May 1800 which was later assigned to Joshua Woodman. He applied for a Soldier's pension 2 May 1818. A widower at his decease, he bequeathed his entire estate to his friend, Joshua Davis of Brooksville, yeoman.