Daniel COLLETT

1752 - 1835  (83 years)

• Name	Daniel COLLETT
  Born	10 Feb 1752	near Baltimore, Baltimore Co, MD   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	20 Jun 1835	Chester Twp., Clinton Co., OH   [1]
  Person ID	I547258734	Primary
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2009

  
  

  Family ID

  F518362902

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  Family	Mary HAINES,   b. 8 Oct 1753, Frederick Co. VA ,   d. 18 Sep 1826, Chester Twp., Clinton Co., OH  (Age 72 years)
  Children	1. Joshua COLLETT,   b. 20 Nov 1781, Berkeley Co, VA, now WV ,   d. 23 May 1855, near Lebanon, Warren Co, OH  (Age 73 years)   2. Isaac COLLETT,   b. 28 Aug 1785, Jefferson Co. WV ,   d. 27 Oct 1859  (Age 74 years)   3. Aaron COLLETT,   b. 21 Jan 1789, Jefferson Co., WV ,   d. 15 Nov 1854  (Age 65 years)   4. Mercy COLLETT,   b. 19 Sep 1790, Jefferson Co., WV ,   d. 22 Dec 1839  (Age 49 years)   5. Benjamin COLLETT,   b. 11 Jun 1793, Jefferson Co., WV ,   d. 24 Jun 1831  (Age 38 years)   6. Daniel COLLETT,   b. 1 Oct 1795, Jefferson Co, VA, now WV ,   d. 20 Sep 1862, Clinton Co., OH  (Age 66 years)   7. Moses COLLETT,   b. 28 Mar 1783, Berkeley Co. VA ,   d. 1783, Berkeley Co. VA   8. Jonathan COLLETT,   b. 25 Apr 1787, Jefferson Co. WV ,   d. 10 Oct 1855, Chester Twp., Clinton Co. OH  (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F518362901	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Alias: Revolutionary /Collett/ He served, 1778, in Capt. Charles Porterfield's company, Col. Daniel Morgan's 7th and 11th Virginia regiments. Daniel was a Private in the Revolutionary War and entered it as a volunteer. He served at Valley Forge and Plains, and at the defeat of General Gates. General's Keith and Muhelsnburg were the commanders. He served in the battle of Monmouth Court House. He served in Captain Porterfield's company. Source: e-mail from family member. Daniel Collett, Sr., the youngest son of Moses Collett, was born February 10, 1752 in Maryland, twenty miles west of Baltimore. He remained at home until 1772, when, at the age of twenty years he left Maryland and settled in Jefferson Co. VA on the road leading from Charleston to Harpers Ferry. He married about the year 1780 to Mary, a daughter of Joshua Haines,( who died December 11, 1754) and by her had eight sons and a daughter, born as follows: Joshua, November 20, 1781, Moses, March 28, 1783, Moses, March 6, 1784, Isaac, August 28, 1785, Jonathan, April 25, 1787, Aaron, January 21, 1789, Mercy, September 19, 1790, Benjamin, June 11, 1793 and Daniel, October 1, 1795. Daniel Collett resided there forty years, and was for many years a Justice of the Peace in that state, appointed, as they were in those days in Virginia, for life or during good behavior.It was not until after he was appointed that he learned to write, his instructor being a Mr. Hibben. He held his courts monthly, and it is said that more dignity and decorum attended a Justice's court in Virginia in those days than are to be seen in the higher courts of Ohio at this day. On one occasion, the Judge of the courts of Jefferson assessed a fine on each of the Justices of that county for the neglect to provide and erect sutiable steps to the jail at Charlestown. Justice Collett paid his fine, and then took the contract for the erection of the stone steps that now grace the front of that historic edifice. His son, Jonathan Collett, hauled the stone and also part of the lumber and timber used in the construction of the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Daniel remained in Jefferson County until 1812, or until sixty years of age, when he sold out his lands and came to Ohio, and settled temporarily in Warren County. In the early part of 1814, he returned to Virginia and purchased of James Smith, Sr., the undivided one-half of Survey 1994, the consideration being $5,895 currant funds of the United States, the actual number of acres being 2, 358. Mr. Collett returned to Clinton County Ohio the same year and settled on his purchase. Source: County and Family History, Clinton Co. OH

  
  

• Sources

  [S523889808] Richard Haines and His Descendnats - A Quaker Family of Burlington County, NJ Since 1682, John Wesley Haines, (Boyce, Va., Printed by Carr), 1:181.