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 1726 - Bef 1792 (< 66 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  Daniel Trowbridge was born on 25 Aug 1726 in Wilton, Fairfield County, CT; died before 4 Dec 1792 in Bridgewater, Litchfield, CT. Notes:
BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE-SPOUSE-PARENTS: The Trowbridge genealogy, history of
the Trowbridge family in America; Francis Bacon Trowbridge; Tuttle,
Morehouse & Taylor; New Haven; 1908.
Daniel Trowbridge after his marriage settled at Drum Hill in his native
place, the parish of Wilton in the town of Norwalk, Conn., where he
engaged in farming. He was chosen surveyor of highways in 1754. Early in
the summer of 1760 he bough a farm of about fifty acres in "Still River
Neck", on the west side of the Housatonic river, in New Milford, Conn.,
and removed there the following summer. He sold this six years later and
removed to a farm in "Shepaug Neck", the lower end of the present town of
Bridgewater, then a part of the town of New Milford. He there passed the
remainder of his life. He and his wife were admitted members of the
Congregational church in Wilton on April 6, 1757, and became members of
the church in New Milford after their removal to that town.
Daniel married DeborahWilton, Fairfield County, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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