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Capt. William Dana & Mary Bancroft Dana
Capt. William Dana was a housewright. After his marriage to Mary Bancroft they resided in Cambridge (in the part now Brighton) until the summer of 1772. He sold his homestead in Cambridge, consisting of dwelling house, barn and cider mill, with 8 acres of homestead and 7 acres of pasture land, on the north side of county road leading from Boston to Watertown, on Nov. 14, 1771, to Josiah Capen of Watertown for 340 pounds.
He was admitted to membership in the Cambridge church Oct. 6, 1771, and his wife, Dec. 1 of the same year. He removed soon afterward to Worcester, where he was living at the outbreak of the Revolution. He was paid by the town of Worcester for transporting a cannon from Boston to Dorchester in Oct. 1774. He was a Sergeant in Capt. Timothy Bigelow's Co, of Minutemen, Col. Artemas Ward's regiment, which marched to Cambridge on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. Later in the same month he was commissioned lieutenant in the artillery company of Capt. Edward Crafts, and on June 26, 1775, recommended to the Provincial Congress to be Captain-lieutenant in Col. Richard Gridley's Reg. He served in the siege of Boston in Gen. Henry Knox's Reg. of artillery from Dec. 10, 1775 to Dec 1776, taking part in the engagements at White Plains and King's Bridge in 1776. From May 1776 for a year he lived on a farm which he leased in Sutton, returning to Worcester in the spring of 1778, where he was chosen a member of the committee of correspondence, and was re-elected in 1779. I 1780, having met with financial loss on account of the depreciation of the Continental currency, he removed to Amherst, N. H., and was a resident there for about nine years, and was deputy Sheriff. He was chosen a member of the Amherst committee to enlist soldiers fro the Continental Army in 1782.
In May, 1788, with his two oldest sons, he went to Marietta, Ohio, built brick kilns, and burned bricks to build his family home, settling at Belpre, on the Ohio River, twelve miles below Marietta. His wife and remaining six children joined him in Marietta in the fall of that year. Three more children were born to them in Ohio.
He was tall and of soldierly bearing and of a cheerful social disposition; was an efficient pioneer and became a large landowner. It is said of his wife: "Her nerves never trembled in danger - her spirits never flagged in adversity -- her fortitude never failed in distress."
Source for information on the Dana family "The Dana Family in America" by Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Cambridge, Massachusetts, unknown pub. 1956
Generation No. 1
1. Capt. William1 Dana was born September 29, 1745 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died October 30, 1809 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio. He married Mary Bancroft November 28, 1770 in Pepperell, Massachusetts. She was born November 19, 1752 in Pepperill, Massachusetts, and died December 31, 1831 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio. They are buried: Cedarville Cemetery, Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio.
Children of William Dana and Mary Bancroft are:
2 i. Elizabeth2 Dana, born Abt. 1771 in Amherst, New Hampshire; died 1835 in Marietta, Ohio. She married Col. Joseph Barker 1789 in Amherst NH; born September 09, 1765 in Newmarket, New Hampshire; died September 1843 in Marietta, Ohio. Col. Joseph Barker settled in Wiseman's Bottom. He was a representative and Associate Judge.
3 ii. Luther Dana, born August 22, 1773 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died December 22, 1813 in Newport Ohio. He married Grace Stone March 17, 1799 in Belpre, Ohio; born October 10, 1777 in Brookfield, Massachusetts; died November 21, 1831 in Newport Ohio.
4 iii. William Dana, born August 16, 1775 in Worchester, Massachusetts; died June 24, 1851 in Newport, Ohio. He married (1) Polly Parkman Foster May 02, 1802 in Newport Ohio; born March 19, 1781 in Brookfield, Massachusetts; died April 28, 1815 in Newport, Ohio. He married (2) Dorcas Bent February 04, 1816 in Belpre Washington Co OH; born August 09, 1782; died Bef. 1835 in Newport, Ohio. He married (3) Maria Taylor Guitteau Abt. 1835 in Belpre, Ohio; born September 16, 1784 in Providence RI; died July 24, 1871 in Steuben, Marshall Co, IL.
5 iv. Edmund Bancroft Dana, born February 22, 1778 in Worchester, Massachusetts; died December 12, 1835 in Rainbow, Washington Co., Ohio. He married Jerusha Burch; born Abt. 1792 in Newtown, Connecticut; died January 23, 1880 in Gallipolis, Ohio.
6 v. Stephen Dana, born November 1779 in Worchester, Massachusetts; died June 06, 1834 in Newport, Ohio. He married Betsey Marietta Foster April 14, 1807 in Mass; born June 07, 1788 in Providence, Rhode Island; died April 09, 1870 in Newport, Ohio.
7 vi. John Dana, born Abt. 1781 in Amherst, New Hampshire; died Bef. 1827. He married Catherine Walton 1810; born June 21, 1787; died December 30, 1871. In early manhood, John and his brother, Charles, went to Mississippi as members of Aaron Burr's expedition to the southwest in 1805. He settled in Walnut Hill, near Vicksburg, Miss. and in later life he removed to Illinois, living at Shawneetown. He is buried at Carmi, near Shawneetown.
8 vii. Charles Dana, born 1785; died February 19, 1819.Burial: Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio
9 viii. Mary Dana, born September 18, 1786 in Amherst, New Hampshire; died March 21, 1871 in Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio. She married Caleb Emerson July 29, 1810 in Marietta, Ohio; born August 21, 1779; died March 14, 1853 in Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio. Caleb Emerson was a Lawyer, editor, and preacher. Residence: Marietta, Ohio
10 ix. George Dana, born March 18, 1790 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio; died April 06, 1865 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio. He married Deborah Ames Fisher September 22, 1816 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio; born September 20, 1785; died December 18, 1843 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio. George Dana was a deacon and trustee. He was a wool grower; came East on business at times; president of Agricultural Society in 1847. He was educated at Marietta College and Ohio University. Occupation: Farmer, Manufacturer. Deborah Ames Fisher was educated in Putnam Seminary, Zanesville, Ohio
11 x. Augustus Dana, born Abt. 1798 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio; died March 22, 1873 in Clinton, Missouri. He married Polly Burch. Augustus Dana was a river pilot and captain, a genial and friendly man. He removed to Missouri in 1835. He was a staunch Union man when his neighbors took the side of the Confederacy. No children
12 xi. Frances Dana, born Abt. 1791 in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio; died 1813. She married Charles Shipman November 12, 1811; died July 07, 1860 in Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio. Residence: Gallipolis, Ohio
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