Hon. Daniel Gill, Jr. was born September 1734 in Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island to Daniel Gill (1706-1752) and Hannah Kingsley (1710-1745) and died 7 December 1793 Ossining, Westchester County, New York of unspecified causes. He married Mercy Whitford (1739-1826) 1 January 1760 in Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.
Biography
Daniel Gill was born in 1734 and died in 1793. He was the father of Mary or Polly Gill who married Bradley Barlowe Wilson. Daniel was a pioneer of the Gill family, a carpenter and millwright who came from Exeter, Rhode Island about 1770. He was elected a member of the legislature in 1784 and again in 1792 and while attending the session in the latter year he was presented with a petition signed by 195 inhabitants of Springfield and vicinity bearing date of October 19, 1792 appointing him and Captain Abner Bisbee agents to select homesteads for them in Upper Canada, in response to a proclamation issued by John G. Simcoe, Governor of the Province. Returning from that mission he was taken sick and died in Suez, New York, December 7, 1793.
Marriage and Family
He married Mercy Whitford (1739-1826) of New Jersey and from this union her ancestry goes back to royalty. One of her ancestors, Frances Latham (1609-1677) was known as the “Mother of Governors” as so many distinguished men have descended from her through her 4th husband William Vaughn. 1734
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| John Gill (1761-1812) | |||
| Betsy Gill (1762-) | |||
| Amos Gill (1765-1847) | |||
| Martha Girll (1768-1848) | |||
| Betsey Gill (1770-1793) | |||
| Whitford Gill (1778-1869) | |||
| Mary Gill (1780-1841) | 17 October 1780 Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont | 30 January 1841 Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois | Bradley Barlowe Wilson (1769-1842) |
Siblings