 1735 - 1759 (23 years)
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| Name |
Daniel Brigham |
| Birth |
28 Apr 1735 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military Service |
Daniel was a soldier during the French-Indian Wars. He died during the Crown Point Expedition.
The following is excerpted from "The Hundredth Town. Glimpses of Life in Westborough 1717-1817" by Harriette Merrifield Forbes
This was just before the war of 1758. Daniel Brigham, a young man of twenty-three, was drafted into the army, and the most strenuous efforts of the family failed to procure a substitute. Just before leaving home, as he was going up the road for the cattle, late one afternoon, he was startled by seeing before him a man wrapped in an Indian blanket. He recognized the figure and face of the man as his own. It disappeared. His brother, standing in the doorway of the old house, also saw the form. He went to the war with the conviction that he should never return.
A few weeks after, he fell ill of a fever, at Crown Point. When near the point of death, an Englishman found him attended by a friendly Indian, and wrapped in an Indian blanket. Afterwards the Englishman brought back to Grafton this account of the realization of their fears.
The exact spot where this apparition was seen has for many generations been pointed out to the children of the family. It is not far beyond the Brigham homestead, now owned by Mr. E. A. Brigham, on the " old road," just after passing the "dry bridge." |
| Death |
1759 |
 Siblings |
8 siblings |
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2. William Brigham, b. 26 Mar 1739, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts  d. 1 Aug 1833, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| 5. Anna Brigham, b. 18 Mar 1745, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 11 Sep 1831 |
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| 7. Persis Brigham, b. 4 Jan 1755, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts d. Abt 1780 |
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| Person ID |
I3500 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
27 Nov 2014 |
| Father |
Charles Brigham, b. 30 Dec 1700, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 17 Mar 1781, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 80 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Mary Peters, b. 1716, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island d. 19 Feb 1797, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 81 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Family ID |
F831 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Daniel's premonition
Daniel Brigham 1735-1759 was drafted into the French-Indian War. In those days if you were drafted you could send someone else in your place. His family tried but was unsuccessful in finding such a replacement. Shortly before he was to go he headed up the road late in the afternoon to tend to the cattle.
Lost in his own thoughts he was startled when he came upon a man wrapped in an Indian blanket. The horror only grew when he realized he was looking at himself! Before he could take any action the figure vanished! It couldn't have been his imagination as his brother standing in the doorway of their house saw the figure too.
Dan went to war believing he would never return.
A few weeks later at Fort Crown Point he became very ill and had a serious fever. He was tended to by an English man with a friendly Indian assistant. His assistant wrapped him in an Indian blanket...
It could have been a episode of the X Files but it was published over a century and a quarter ago in the book: The Hundredth Town, Glimpses of life in Westborough 1717-1817. This book which I HIGHLY recommend is available under the media attached to Daniel's page. |
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