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                   There is a lot of conflict concerning the parentage of this particular Daniel Havens.  There were 4 or 5 Daniel Havens extant during the time of the Revolutionary War and as such there are military records and other collateral information that may some day correct the confusion.  The following is my theory and I will stick with it and revise it as necessary.  (GAS June 24, 2008)

First, the inquiry focuses on Long Island as that is where our Daniel was living.  We know from the writings of Paul Havens, brother of Arthur, that his grandfather at one time lived at Sag Harbor.  Paul's grandfather was also named Paul and was a son of Daniel.  It is from this Paul's Bible from which the grandson Paul cites to Barrington Havens (see below).

Second, it is important to understand Barrington Havens role in all of this.  He was clarifying a portion of the Havens genealogy of which the instant Daniel Havens should be a part.  The work he was clarifying was that of Mallman who had compiled the original work.  Granted this was and is a complex task, however, give the process some thought and it is apparent what mistake or oversight was made.

There were two (2) Daniel Havens on Long Island at the time of the Revolutionary War that had reached majority. One was married to Elizabeth Bostwick and the other to Anne (Hannah) Nickerson.  Both had children.  The main difference is that one was about four (4) years older than the other.  As such, one began a family earlier than the other.

Third, the above paragraph is the source of and the continuation of the confusion to this day. Barrington Havens chose to ignore this by simply remarking that the Elizabeth Bostwick information was at odds with the Hannah Nickerson information, and apparently Mallman was just unaware and filed the information for both Daniel Havens in the same folder.  What Mallman did was apparent by reviewing the written histories/chronologies that are cut and pasted below.  To wit, how could Daniel Havens both be a mariner (Captain) and be in the infantry at the same time?  How could Daniel Havens still be a Captain of a vessel after he died?  Were they both Captians and were they both lost at sea (drowned)?  Not likely.

After the Revolutionary War, Hannah Nickerson received permission to and did return to Long Island in February of 1783 as a widow.  Her Daniel was dead.  She eventually remarried and is buried at Sag Harbor.  She had returned to Long Island from Connecticut.  This is where her family was and also the family of a Daniel Havens born in 1747.  She returned with children.  The 1776 census of the Sag Harbor area shows a Daniel Havens with wife and children.  The instant Daniel did not marry Elizabeth Bostwick until 1776, so these could not be the same Daniels.

Also, all of the genealogies posted on Rootsweb and at the LDS site show lineages for all of the Daniel Havens extant at the time and most cite only to Mallman or Barrington Havens as their proof.  Well, if these fine gentleman made a mistake and then perpetuated that mistake, then the modern pursuers of their genealogy are citing to an error.  An error that is copied and magnified in multiple historical writings of this time period.  Bear in mind that this argument only involves the  two Daniel Havens who were born in New York and Massachusetts.

The Revolutionary War records of New Yorkers in the military shows a Daniel Havens that was infantry that died before muster.   It also lists him under the heading Massachusetts.  He either died there or was born there or both.  Remember, there were only two from New York (Long Island) at this time who had reached majority.

The previously mentioned record of Hannah returning to Long Island a widow is from Feb 1783 which is also conveniently the date commonly listed as the date of Daniel's drowning.  I think that most researchers have picked up this date because that is the first date that they find where he is conclusively dead, or that she is in fact a widow.

What we do know is that the instant Daniel Havens was the Master of a brig that went to the Brazil Banks and returned in 1785 (see below).  We do know that Elizabeth was granted letters of Administration in his Estate on or about Dec 28, 1789.  We do know that Paul's Bible shows that his father died Christmas of 1789.  Paul was there and this is his contemporaneous writing of this historical fact which his grandson Paul cites to this record in his letter to Mallman.  Further, Elizabeth Havens appears in the 1790 US Census (Sag Harbor) as a widow with three children (one had died earlier that year).  There are no New York Daniel Havens in the 1790 US Census.

Other collateral and anecdotal evidence only reinforces the conclusion of this writing.  William Havens was listed as the progenitor of the Havens line according to Daniel's son Paul.  Now, was this his grandfather or the original William Havens that had emigrated from Wales nearly 150 years previous, or just a poor choice of words?  A William Havens of Sag Harbor had three sons that were mariners that also drowned.  These sons were named Daniel, Joseph, and William.  Coincidence?  He also had a son named Johnathan that married Abigail Bostwick, the sister of Elizabeth.  Coincidence?

I conclude that the instant Daniel Havens was the son of William Havens and Ruth Falconer and not the Daniel that has been credited as such for the last many years.  The record does not bear out any other conclusion.  Further, the record suggests that the Daniel married to Hannah was from Massachusetts/Connecticut and had relocated to Sag Harbor.  It always seems curious when there is genealogical documentation coming from both directions and it just does not meet up (dead ends frrom both directions) with the person your are researching.  Such is the case with the Daniels.  The information perspective herein pidgeonholes quite nicely the way I have them and that would most likely make Daniel Havens the husband of Hannah Nickerson, the son of Nathaniel Havens and Elizabeth Beebe of Massachusetts.

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DAR records state that Daniel was born in Sag Harbor.  Served as a private in Colonel Clinton's New York Regiment. (Note:  See above.)

"Mr. Paul E. Havens of Leavenworth, Kansas in a letter of February 13, 1895 says his grandfather (Paul Havens, GAS note) at one time lived at Sag Harbor and gives the grandfather's Bible record as follows "'Daniel Havens was born February 5, 1750 O.S. His ancestors were of Welsh origin. His wife Elizabeth Bostwick was born March 26, 1755. They were married July 7, 1776 and had the following children: Paul born October 7, 1777, Misodach born December 5, 1779, Abigail born December 25, 1782, and Selah born March 11, 1785. Daniel Havens died Dec 25, 1789 aged 39 years. His wife survived him 41 years and died June 15, 1830 aged 75 years.' "Letters of administration were granted to Elizabeth widow of Daniel Havens, mariner of Southampton December 28, 1789. She was a daughter of Mereby and Mary (Strong) Bostwick and a sister of Abigail Bostwick, wife of Captain J o h n Havens-5. She may have later married John Moore and lived out in New York State.
1. The Havens Family in Suffolk County, New York by Barrington S. Havens, 1975, entry 536, page 24 "lost off Montauk, Christmas 1789."
(Gary Note: O.S. means "old style" referring to the Julian Calendar.  The conversion was in 1751)
'Fitted out the brig 'America' and made successful whaling voyage.Census: 1776 Sag HarborDied intestate; letters of administration issued in 1789 for Daniel, mariner, Southampton, to widow Elizabeth (at odds with Hannah Nickerson information).

P. 640, History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 to 1860. by: Frances Manwaring Caulkins, New London 1895, Cecilia Grinswald, compiler. 1950.

"In 1785, Messrs. Stephen Howell and Benjamin Hunting, of Sagharbor, purchased the brig Lucy, of Elijah Huybbard, of Middletown, Conn,.,, and sent her out on a whaling voyage, George McKay, master.  The same season, the brig America, Daniel Havens, master, was fitted out from the same place,  Both went to the Brazil Banks.
       1785. The Lucy returned May 15th, with 360 barrels.
           "      The America returned June 4th, with 300 barrels.
These arrivals were announced in the New London Gazette, in the marine lists kept by Thomas Alen, who thereupon breaks forth: ..."
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http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Newspapers/subjects/Rev.htm

April 24, 1776The Pennsylvania Gazette
NEWBERN, March 29.
On Thursday last arrived here, in 12 days from St. Eustatia, in the armed schooner Caswell, Mr. John W. Stanly, of this place. He sailed from Ocracock bar the 26th of January, in the brig Sally, Captain Ridge, and the 12th of February made the island of Martinique; where the vessel was seized by the Pomona frigate, Capt. Young, while she lay becalmed about two miles from the town of St. Pierre, and while Mr. Stanly was gone on shore to obtain permission to anchor there. The Pomona had anchored that night in the harbour of St. Pierre, and came out disguised like a merchantman. A sloop from Fairfield, in the same situation, was taken in company with the Sally.
Mr. Stanly further informs, that several vessels arrived in the West-Indies from England while he was there, some of them in short passages, and that from all the prints he could see, and the accounts he could collect, there did not appear the most distant prospect of a reconciliation; but, on the contrary, the ministry were so determined, their majority in the House so great, and their influence amongst the people in general so extensive, that the few friends we had were dispirited, and all hopes of their being able to effect any thing in our favour despaired of.
Among the many vessels seized under the prohibitory act are the following, viz. From New-York, the sloop Sally, Doge, Charming Polly, Truxen, America, Campbell, and schooner Polly, Alstine. Rhode-Island, Capt. Sweet. Fairfield, sloop Diamond, Whitney. Salem, brig America, Lambert. Philadelphia, ship Nancy, Kirby, and brig _____, Gregg. North-Carolina, brig Sally, Ridge, and schooner _____, James Green, cleared by Governor Martin. Georgia, a brig, Capt. Deane. Virginia, a brig. South Carolina, brig Union, Boyd. Connecticut, a sloop, Capt. Jones. New York, a sloop, Capt. Gibbs.

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Long Island History Chapter 12

http://longislandgenealogy.com/chapter12.html
The foregoing, on the authority of Prime, Thompson and the Chronicles, differs from the account in Calkins' History of New London, on p. 640, where it is reported that the Hope had 140 barrels; that in 1785 the brig Lucy, George McKay, master, and the brig Amelia, Daniel Havens, master, fitted and sailing from Sag-Harbor, went to the Brazil Banks and returned that year, the Lucy May 15th with 360 barrels and the Amelia June 4th with 300 barrels. Also there it is stated that the first vessel from Connecticut which sailed for whaling in southern latitudes was in 1794, being some nine or ten years later than the Sag-Harbor voyages. In the same history we read, p. 240. 1711, Sept. 8th, "Skolinks sailed for Long Island," probably Schellinger.--See ante, p. 74.