Daniel F. Bakeman

Daniel Frederick Bakeman
File:Daniel Frederick Bakeman portrait with text.jpg
Born	(1759-10-09)October 9, 1759 Schoharie County, New York
Died
Buried	Sandusky Cemetery, Freedom, New York
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	Continental Army
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War
Relations	8 children
Other work	Farmer

Daniel Frederick Bakeman (October 9, 1759 – April 5, 1869) was the last survivor receiving a veteran's pension for service in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

Biography

Bakeman said he was born on October 9, 1759 in Schoharie County, New York.

Records have shown that in 1825 the Bakemans settled in Arcade, New York, in a home on the north side of the County Line Road. In 1845 they moved to Freedom, New York. He appears in the 1860 United States Census as "Frederick Bakeman" living in Freedom with his wife and his daughter, Susan, and a grandchild, Jacob N. Bakeman (born 1838). He lists his birth year as 1758 and that of his wife as 1760. While on a four day trip from central New York to Albany, New York for wheat and other supplies, Bakeman's home burned down with nothing salvageable. This would occur two more times in his life.

On February 14, 1867, the United States Congress passed a special act which granted a Revolutionary War pension to Bakeman. The act was required because Bakeman could not prove that he had served in New York. At the time, the longest surviving veterans who were on the pension rolls were Lemuel Cook of Clarendon, New York (died May 20, 1866), and Samuel Downing of Edinburgh, New York (died February 19, 1867). They resided for over 42 years in Herkimer County, New York, and part of the time in the town of Stark, New York where he owned a farm. George Fruits also claimed to be the last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War (by the Daughters of the American Revolution), but was never on the pension rolls.

Bakeman died six months before his 110th birthday on April 5, 1869 and is buried in Sandusky Cemetery in Freedom, New York. The Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Pensions for 1874 said: "With the death of Daniel T. Bakeman, of Freedom, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., April 5, 1869, the last of the pensioned soldiers of the Revolution passed away."

See also

• Last surviving United States war veterans
• List of centenarians
• List of people with the longest marriages

External links

• Daniel Frederick Bakeman at Find a Grave