Daniel Putnam
(1759-1831)
BIRTH
November 18, 1759
PLACE
Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut
DEATH
April 30, 1831
PLACE
Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
Israel Putnam
(1718-1790)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Daniel Putnam (1759–1831) was General Israel Putnam’s son and a Connecticut resident associated with Putnam Elms. His best documented public act was defending his father’s conduct at Bunker Hill. In 1818 he published a letter answering Henry Dearborn’s critical account, adding family recollections to a dispute over Revolutionary memory. The Library of Congress preserves the pamphlet. Its claims reflect a son’s retrospective defense, not direct witness to every event.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Daniel Putnam’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
Putnam wrote an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill defending his father's conduct.
CAREER
DEATH
Daniel Putnam was General Israel Putnam’s son and a Connecticut resident associated with Putnam Elms. In 1818 he published a letter answering Henry Dearborn’s critical account, adding family recollections to a dispute over Revolutionary memory. Its claims reflect a son’s retrospective defense, not direct witness to every event. Daniel Putnam died on Apr 30, 1831, in Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Daniel Putnam (1759–1831), Israel Putnam’s son. His letter is a retrospective defense of his father; the other biographies concern his father and family. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. A Letter to Maj.-Gen. Dearborn, Repelling His Unprovoked Attack on the Character of the Late Maj.-Gen. Putnam — Daniel Putnam. [Primary family defense and Revolutionary recollections] Find on Amazon
2. Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution — Robert Ernest Hubbard. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
3. Israel Putnam: Pioneer, Ranger, and Major-General, 1718–1790 — William Farrand Livingston. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
4. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution — Nathaniel Philbrick. [Related campaign and biographical history] Find on Amazon
5. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America — Eben Putnam. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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