General Notes

1  NAME Daniel /Dodd/
2  GIVN Daniel
2  SURN Dodd
2  SOUR S200


Colket: Branford (Conn.) 1646, d there 1665/6.

  Daniel Dodd (spelled Dod in this generation and in one or two successive generations) and his wife Mary appear at Branford, Connecticut, as early as 1646 or 1647. The oldest three of their children, Mary (also called Mercy), Hannah (Anna) and Daniel were baptized as children of the Branford
Church at New Haven in June 1651. Four other children were born later. Mary died May 16, 1657.
   Daniel died between sowing time, 1666, and the harvest of 1666 as the inventory of his estate includes wheat on the ground. Both were buried at Branford. After his death, his sons, being all minors, petitioned the Court to name Richard Lawrence and Lawrence Ward as their guardians and
administrators, which was granted. The estate amounted to about $650. The children all would move to Newark, New Jersey, except Anna and Stephen. Accounts of Connecticut and New Jersey history show that the move was possibly prompted by the splits in the Connecticut Puritans over religious differences, drawing some of them to follow their pastors to New Jersey when the Connecticut and New Haven colonies were united into one in 1665. Those who moved were primarily from Branford, Conn., but included others who agreed with the Branford congregation about theological matters. Not everyone, however, was drawn by religious inclination. Some were simply recruited to help build the new community.

(Research):Daniel Dod family in America, 1940
Seversmith 2:914.