Mehitabel Putnam
(1749–1789)
BIRTH
October 21, 1749
PLACE
DEATH
November 28, 1789
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Israel Putnam
(1718-1790)
SISTER
Hannah Putnam Dana
(1744-1821)
BROTHER
Daniel Putnam
(1759-1831)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mehitabel Putnam Tyler (1749–1789) was General Israel Putnam and Hannah Pope’s daughter, born at Pomfret, Connecticut. She married Captain Daniel Tyler in August 1771 and lived in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Their children included Mary, Pascal Paoli and Daniel Putnam Tyler; two sons bore the name Septimus after the first died young. Cited town records give her death in November 1789 and burial in South Cemetery. His military service was not hers.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mehitabel 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Mehitabel Putnam 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
Mehitabel Putnam died on Nov 28, 1789. Mehitabel Putnam Tyler was General Israel Putnam and Hannah Pope’s daughter, born at Pomfret, Connecticut. She married Captain Daniel Tyler in August 1771 and lived in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Their children included Mary, Pascal Paoli and Daniel Putnam Tyler; two sons bore the name Septimus after the first died young. Cited town records give her death in November 1789 and burial in South Cemetery. His military service was not hers. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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