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- Notes for Daniel Huffman, Jr.:
DANIEL I HUFFMAN was born in 1731 in Germany, son of the immigrant John Huffman. The family reportedly came to America in 1751, and to old Rowan County, N. C., in 1752. On January 17, 1781, Daniel married Rachel Park. She was the daughter of John Park and Mary of Hampshire County, W.Va. About 50 years later, Uriah Huffman, a grandson of Daniel and Rachel, married Delinda Park, who was a granddaughter of Noah and Anna Reed Park of Rowan County.
Daniel Huffman served during the American Revolution. In 1775 Daniel joined the forces of Colonel Cleaveland to march into the mountains of Western Carolina where they succeeded in quelling and uprising fo the Indians. In 1781, he was in the thick of the fight at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Daniel is included in a "Role of officers and private soldiers detached from the first or southern Battalion of the militia of the county of Orange to march against the hostile Indians under the command of Col. Ambrose Ramsey." Daniel was a private, apparently in the company of Captain William Williams. The detachment was commanded by a Colonel Butler. The role is dated August 20, 1776.
The family seems to have been associated with old Orange County. Orange County was organized in 1753 on the east side of then Rowan County, organized in the same year. Daniel from 1768. In 1770, Guilford County was organized from parts of both Rowan and Orange, it lays to the northeast of present day Davidson County.
Daniel was reportedly at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781. To the east of Guilford, Alamance County was organized from the western most portion of Orange in 1848. The area was some distance from the present day Davidson County, where Daniel and Rachel Park Huffman lived. Still, it is not impossible that Daniel could have moved southwest from old Orange to old Rowan some time before 1768.
Daniel Huffman is named several times in the minutes of the Rowan County court, between 1777 and 1789. On May 8, 1777, Daniel is named in connection with the case of State vs. Tevalt Copley for an amount of ten pounds. It is not clear whether Daniel was a claimant from or bondsman for Mr. Copley.
Daniel Huffman is named as an adjoining landowner in two vacant land entries in 1778.
Entry no. 160. dated February 5, 1778: David Smith acquired title to 300 acres on both sides of Muddy Run adjoining Moses Cox, Daniel Huffman and Stillwell's old place.
With Entry no. 289, dated February 6, 1778, John Billing obtained 640 acres on the south side of Abbots Creek, and bounded on the northwest by George Miller, on the southeast by Gasper Miller on said creek, and on the south by Daniel Huffman. [2]
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1731 - 1823 (92 years)
