Hannah Putnam Dana
(1744-1821)
BIRTH
1744
PLACE
Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut
NAME
Hannah Pope Putnam
DEATH
1821
PLACE
Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, USA
FAMILY
FATHER
Israel Putnam
(1718-1790)
BROTHER
Daniel Putnam
(1759-1831)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hannah Pope Putnam Dana was General Israel Putnam and Hannah Pope’s daughter and the wife of John Winchester Dana. Their family settled in Pomfret, Vermont, where John held town and legislative offices. Their son Benjamin settled in Ohio. She died at Cornish, New Hampshire. A published genealogy gives April 1821, while a contemporary newspaper notice places her death in April 1820; that conflict remains unresolved. His public offices should not be attributed to her.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Hannah Pope Dana’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.
No distinct public profession or office for Hannah Pope Dana is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hannah Pope Dana died in 1821, in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, USA. Hannah Pope Putnam Dana was General Israel Putnam and Hannah Pope’s daughter and the wife of John Winchester Dana. Their family settled in Pomfret, Vermont, where John held town and legislative offices. Their son Benjamin settled in Ohio. She died at Cornish, New Hampshire. A published genealogy gives April 1821, while a contemporary newspaper notice places her death in April 1820; that conflict remains unresolved. His public offices should not be attributed to her. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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