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Daniel Remington

Male Abt 1782 - Bef 1851  (~ 68 years)


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  • Name Daniel Remington 
    Born Abt 1782  RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 1851 
    Person ID I04038  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father John Remington,   b. 2 Nov 1756, Warwick, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1840, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Mary "Molly" Tillinghast,   b. 1763, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jan 1840, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 17 Dec 1780  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Family ID F01036  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • I believe Daniel may have died a very tragic death. From "The History of Cheshire," p. 11:

      "One winter, Daniel Remington, son of Col. Remington, left for Adams on a Saturday morning to replenish his stock of leather. He was the settlement shoemaker as well as the poet. On his return to the hill in the afternoon, he was overtaken by a severe snow storm and lost his way. A search party found him the next morning 'standing erect with his hands tightly clasped to the rails of a rude fence a short distance from his home.' He was frozen to death."

      "He was of a very happy and jovial disposition and was the village poet." (source: "Berkshire Genealogist" Vol. 26 No. 4 Fall 2005, p. 128; reprinted from "The Berkshire Hills" of 1900/01)

      This must have been Daniel, the son of John, who was a shoemaker. "Daniel Remington had thge reputation of making the finest shoe of any one in the country." ("The History of Cheshire" by Raynor and Petticlerc, p 97)

      The 1820 Federal Census lists a Daniel T. Remington and family at Cheshire (6 in household).

      BSR says he was "of Maine." (no source documentation)

  • Sources 
    1. [S012451] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Warwick -- Marriages, 96.

    2. [S012423] Elder John Gorton and the Six-Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, RI, Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2001), 279 & 280.