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[93]
The Sickles Family Bible shows that Daniel was born about 1744 and the New York City Register of Deaths suggests that it was around November of that year. Daniel was a cordwainer (shoemaker) who practiced his trade in Manhattan, registering
with the city on October 9, 1770.
[95]
When the American Revolution broke out, Daniel joined the Loyalist side, even though his brothers Garrett and Samuel were Patriots who took up arms against the British. According to an unidentified newspaper clipping from a file found by Jim
and Laura Schnell at Rutgers University in 1993, Daniel and a companion named Philip White owned and operated a "schooner boat" called the "Heroes' Revenge," and were authorized by the British government to seize the cargo of any Patriot ships
they encountered.
[97]
When the British Army left New York in 1783, Daniel, like many Loyalists, relocated to New Brunswick, Canada. They found the going there tough and the winters cold and cruel. Having had their property back home confiscated by unforgiving
Patriots, the Loyalists petitioned the King to grant them land in New Brunswick. Beginning in 1785, property records show Daniel acquiring and selling land first in Maugerville (pronounced "Majorville") and then Fredericton, New Brunswick.
[99]
According to the Sickles Family Bible, Daniel married Rebecca Bradley on January 20, 1791 and they had seven children. Baptism records from the Anglican Church in Maugerville indicate that at least the first four children were born in New
Brunswick.
[101] A document dated November 5, 1803 shows Daniel and his wife Rebecca selling their property to John Agnew, suggesting they were preparing to leave Canada. The New York City directory of 1804 shows Daniel living at 233 Water Street.
[103]
In February 1809, Daniel, along with his brother Garret and a few other relatives, applied for the land due their late brother Samuel for his Revolutionary War service - a seemingly hypocritical move considering Daniel had opposed his brother's
cause during the war. Interestingly, while Daniel signed his last name "Sickles" on the document, Garret signed it "Sickels."
[105]
The Family Bible states that Daniel "departed this life the 3d day of April, 1815, in the 71st year of his age." The New York Evening Post, dated two days later, reported that Daniel died "of a short though severe illness, which he bore with
christian fortitude and resignation." It also called him "an old and respectable inhabitant."
[107]
Since Daniel was about 46 when he married Rebecca Bradley, it's not unreasonable to wonder if he had a previous marriage. At the time, it was customary to name children after their grandparents or parents. Could it be that none of Daniel's
children with Rebecca were named Zachariah or Daniel because he already had children with those names?
[109]
Records of Loyalist arrivals in New Brunswick in 1783 list a "Daniel Sickles Jr.," who, if he were our Daniel's son, would prove the previous marriage theory. There are also several Daniel Sickleses who show up in New York City records.
Unfortunately, all of these are too sketchy to prove a definite link to our Daniel. So, for now, this is one idea that will have to remain a theory.
[111] Addresses (all New York City): 233 Water Street in 1804-05; 88 James Street in 1806; 6 Bedlow in 1807-08; 39 Catherine in 1811; 8 Bedlow in 1811; 69 James Street in 1812; 60 James Street in 1813-15.