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Prior, Daniel (1760-1808)

Name:
Prior, Daniel (1760-1808)
Title:
Captain
Postmaster
Surveyor of Highways, 1802
Moderator, 1804
Corder of Wood, 1804, 1805
Survey of Lumber, 1807, 1808
Fire Warden, 1808
Proprietor, Hillsborough Bank Corporation, 1806
Born:
00/00/1760
Birthplace:
Nantucket, MA
Died:
10/11/1808
Death Location:
Amherst, NH
Residence:
Nantucket, MA, 1760-1799
Amherst, NH, 1799-1808
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Mariner
Sea Captain
Tavern Keeper, 1800
Merchant
Father:
Prior, Jeremiah
Mother:
Coffin, Love
Spouse:
Married Abigail Woodbury, January 18, 1784
Children:
Timothy
Notes:
Jeremiah Colburn, "List of Americans Committed to Old Mill Prison England, During the War," New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 19(July 1865), 211.

Emily P. B. Locke, Compiler, Colonial Amherst: The Early History, Customs and Homes. (Milford, New Hampshire: W. B. & A. B. Rotche, 1916), 35, 38, 90-91.

Daniel F. Secomb, History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (Concord, New Hampshire: Evans, Sleeper, and Woodbury, 1883), 910.

Norman W. Smith, "The 'Amherst Bubble,' Wildcat Banking in Early Nineteenth Century New Hampshire," Historical New Hampshire, 20(Spring 1965)1, 28-29.

Nantucket Vital Records, 300, 395

Amherst Town Records, 1800-1814.

"Hillsborough Bank," Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, July 15, 1806, 4.

Obituary, The Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, October 18, 1808.
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