Revolutionary War soldier and church deacon
| When Burke met | 1818 |
| Where Burke met | Wilkesbarre, PA |
| Occupation | Unknown |
| Interaction with Burke | Burke stayed with him and attending meeting |
| Identity Status | Confirmed |
| Genealogy | Wikitree |
| Memoir Pages | 95-6 |
Notes
Daniel Hoyt (May 2, 1756 – August 31, 1824) was a Revolutionary War soldier and church deacon born in Danbury, Connecticut, to Comfort and Anna Beach Hoyt. He served as a private in Colonel Philip Burr Bradley’s Battalion of the Continental Army from June 1776 to January 1777. In 1779, he married Anne Gunn, with whom he had ten children. Around 1795, Hoyt relocated his family to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. He served as a deacon of the Wilkes-Barre church, a congregation his brother, Rev. Ard Hoyt, was later installed to pastor in 1806. Following his first wife’s death in 1804, he married Sylvina Pierce. Hoyt subsequently acted as a deacon for the first Presbyterian congregation organized in Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1819. He remained in Kingston Township until his death and is buried in Forty Fort Cemetery.
Sources
Burke, William. Memoir of William Burke: A Soldier of the Revolution, Reformed from Intemperance, and for Many Years a Consistent and Devoted Christian; Carefully Prepared from a Journal Kept by Himself; to Which Is Added, an Extract from a Sermon Preached at His Funeral, by Rev. Nathaniel Miner. Hartford, CT: Case, Tiffany, 1837.