Daniel Dod

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Husband Daniel Dod ¹

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            AKA: Daniel Dodd 2 3
           Born:  - England
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         Father: [Father] Dod (      -      )
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1 M Stephen Dod ¹

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            AKA: Stephen Dodd 2 3
           Born:  - Branford, New Haven Co, CT
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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Dod

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He was born in England, and in 1642 immigrated to America, locating in Branford, Connecticut.

From the family records and traditions, supported by ecclesiastical and other institutional records and local histories, it is learned that in the year 1636 two brothers, Daniel and Stephen Dod (so the patronymic was then and for some generations thereafter spelled), leaving their ancestral home in England, settled in Branfort, Connecticut. [FCCV, 104]

The name of Dod or Dodd is of frequent occurrence in American history from colonial times down to the present. As early as 1644, Daniel Dod was at Branford, Connecticut; he had a wife Mary, whom he married about 1646, and had children, all baptized at New Haven, June 1, 1651, namely: 1. Mary Dod. 2. Hannah Dod. 3. David Dod, born 1649-50. 4. Ebenezer Dod, born December 1, 1651. 5. A daughter, born March 29, 1653, died soon. 6. Stephen Dod, born February 16, 1655. 7. Samuel Dod, born May 2, 1657. His wife died May 26, 1657, and he died in January, 1666, at Branford, Connecticut.
All of the sons except Stephen Dod removed to Newark, New Jersey, in 1667 and the following years, where they settled and received grants of land. It seems probable that at the death of Daniel Dod, his two eldest children, Mary and Hannah, or Anna, were both married; Mary, married Aaron Blatchley, and she, together with her brothers, Daniel, Ebenezer and Samuel, came to Newark and settled there. Anna, or Hannah, is supposed to have married a Fowler, of Guilford, Connecticut, and to have kept her younger brother Stephen with her, so thus were the children separated.
Samuel Dod, the youngest child of Daniel and Mary, was left motherless at three weeks old, and fatherless at nine years old. He came to Newark, New Jersey, with his elder brothers and sister Mary Dod-Blatchley in 1667 or 1668, and at a town meeting held February 13, 1678-79, he then being about twenty-two years old, was admitted as a planter. He was assigned a home lot at the northwest end of the town plot, next to his brother Daniel's lot, on Watsesson, or Watsessing Plain. Samuel Dod had these lands confirmed to him by patent from the proprietors, as we learn from the "Bell in Chancery." In January, 1701-02, he was chosen constable of the town, and his will, dated February 3, 1712-13, proved in 1714, is the earliest will of Dod on record in New Jersey. He died aged about fifty-seven years, and his will names his wife Martha, together with two sons and five daughters, namely: Samuel Dod, Jonathan Dod, Mary Dod, Martha Dod, Rebecca Dod, Susanna Dod, Hannah Dod, all minors at the time of their father's death. [EPB III, 772]

1 —, Proceedings of the Celebration of the First Centennial of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Franklin, PA: The Venango County Bar Association, 1905), Pg 104.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 108.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 930.