By Muriel Bristol | July 13, 2026
Daniel Dore was born in Lebanon, ME, January 21, 1754, son of John and Charity (Wentworth) Dore.
(His parent’s children were: Daniel Dore, John Dore, Jonathan Dore, Hannah Dore, Betsy Dore, Charity Dore, Joseph Dore, Benaiah Dore, James Dore, Wentworth Dore, Paul Dore, Sally Dore, Andrew Dore, and Dorothy Dore).
John and Charity (Wentworth) Dore moved [from Newington, NH,] to Lebanon, Maine, and became the parents of fourteen children. The children established a most remarkable record for longevity. Several of them lived to be nearly a hundred, and their ages at death averaged eighty years. Three of the sons were in the Revolution: John, Jonathan and Benaiah. John [Jr.] lived and died at Lebanon, Maine; Jonathan and Benaiah moved to Milton, New Hampshire (Stearns, 1908).
And, as we shall see, Daniel Dore, served also in the Revolution, in 1777, and moved also to Rochester, NH, i.e., Milton as would be, before 1790.
Daniel Door appeared in a “Return of men drafted out of Col. John Frost’s (2nd York Co.) regt., drafted May 7, 1777, endorsed ‘for Rhode Island'” (MA Secretary of State, 1898).
Brother Jonathan Dore, when applying for his own Revolutionary War pension many years later, explained that he had taken the place of his brother, Daniel Dore, on the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition of 1779.
He then returned home & immediately took his brother Daniel Dore’s place in Captain Goodwin’s Company in Colonel Cobb’s regiment, (his said Brother having become disaffected [about] the service) and he marched to Penobscot & remained there about two months when the shipping being burned & after other disasters they were disbanded & he returned home.
Daniel Dore married in Lebanon, ME, November 22, 1781, Dorcas Garland, both of Lebanon, ME. Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the ceremony. She was born in Rochester, NH, April 7, 1760, daughter of Dodivah and Mary (Carter) Garland.
[Ensign Dodivah Garland had appeared in a “Return of the Field and other Officers in the Regt commanded by Colo John Waldron Stationed at Temple’s farm in Brigadier Genl Sullivan’s Brigade in the Continental Army,” March 6, 1776].
(The known children of Daniel and Dorcas (Garland) Dore were: Mary Dore (1781-1863), Charity Dore (1788-1867), and George Dore (1798-1880)).
Daughter Charity Dorr was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, in September 1788. She was a namesake for her paternal grandmother, Charity (Wentworth) Dore.
John Door headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], one male aged under-16 years, and two females [Charity (Wentworth) Door]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathl Hays and John Door, Junr.
Dodipha [Dodivah] Garland headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], one male aged under-16 years, and two females [Mary (Carter) Garland]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathl Hays and Jona Ellice [Ellis]. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).
Daniel Door headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], three males aged under-16 years, and one female [Dorcas (Garland) Dore]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jona Door and David Coarson. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).
Daniel Dore was one of twenty-four petitioners from Wakefield, Rochester & Dover, as well as Massachusetts, that signed the Salmon Falls sawmill petition of June 1797. (See Salmon Falls Sawmill Petition – 1797).
Father-in-law Dodivah Garland died April 19, 1798.
Son George Dorr was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, July 7, 1798.
Daniel Door headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Dorcas (Garland) Door], one female aged 16-25 years, one female aged 10-15 years [Charity Door], one male aged under-10 years [George Door], and one female aged under-10 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).
Daniel Dore and his brother, Jonathan Dore, both signed the Rochester Division Petition of May 1802. (See Rochester Division Petition – May 1802). For whatever reason, their brother, Benaiah Dore, did not sign.
Daniel Door and his brother, Jona Door, were assessed in the Milton School District No. 1 of Joseph Plumer in 1806. Brothers Benaiah Dore and Wentworth Dore were assessed in other districts (See Milton School Districts – 1806).
Daniel Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Dorcas (Garland) Dore], two females aged 16-25 years [Charity Dore], and one male aged 10-15 years [George Dore]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Josiah Willey and Wentworth Cook. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).
Daniel Dore and his brothers, Jonathan Dore and John Dore, were among those that petitioned the NH General Court, in or around June 1814, seeking incorporation of the Milton Congregational Society. (See Milton Congregational Society Petition – 1814).
Son George Dore served in Capt. William Courson’s Milton militia company when it marched to Portsmouth, NH, in September 1814. They were responding to Gov. Gilman’s alarm regarding possible attacks by the British navy. (See Milton in the War of 1812).
Son George Dorr married (1st) in York, ME, May 7, 1820, Jane Frost. She was born in Eliot, ME, March 5, 1796, daughter of Eliot and Jane (Clark) Frost.
Daniel Dore and his son, George Dore, both signed the Milton Anti-Division Remonstrance of June 1820. Jonathan Dore, Daniel G. Dore, Dodovah Dore, and Wentworth Dore also signed (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).
Danl Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 70-79 years [himself], one female aged 70-79 years [Dorcas (Garland) Dore], and one female aged 30-39 years [Charity Dore]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between Danl W. Horne and John Blaisdell. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).
Geo Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Jane (Frost) Dore], three males aged 5-9 years, and three males aged under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between Simeon Applebe and John Foss (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).
Charity Dore headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 20-29 years [herself].
Daniel Dore died in Milton, January 31, 1831.
Dorcas (Garland) Dore died in Milton, March 4, 1836, aged seventy-five years.
George Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Jane (Frost) Dore], three males aged 10-14 years, three males aged 5-9 years, and one male aged under-5 years. Four members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathaniel Clark and John Blaisdell.
George Dorr, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Jane [(Frost)] Dorr, aged fifty-four years (b. ME), Wingate Dorr, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Simon C. Dorr, aged eleven years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Franklin Orange, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), and James Downs, a shoemaker aged fifty-nine years (b. NH). (Jonathan Dore, none, aged ninety-three (b. ME), and several younger Dores, resided in the household of Franklin Orange).
War of 1812 Pension records noted that veteran George Dore resided in Strafford County (P.O. at Milton Three Ponds) in 1855.
George Dore, a farmer, aged sixty-one years (b. <blank>), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Jane [(Frost)] Dore, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), Charity Dore, aged seventy-two years (b. NH [SIC]), and Wingate Dore (b. NH), aged twenty-four years. George Dore had real estate valued at $500 and personal estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Samuel W. Pinkham, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and Eliot F. Dore, a farmer, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH).
Daughter-in-law Jane (Frost) Dorr died in Milton, September 25, 1861.
Son George Dorr married (2nd) in Milton, December 15, 1862, Lydia C. ((Willand) Randall) Legro, he of Milton and she of Kingston, NH. He was a farmer, aged sixty-one years, and she was a widow [of David Legro], aged sixty-four years. It was his second marriage and her fourth marriage. Rev. Ezra Tuttle, a F.W. Baptist clergyman, performed the service. She was born in Rochester, NH, circa 1798, daughter of Enoch and Esther (Cloutman) Willand.
MARRIAGES. In Milton, Dec. 15, by Rev. E. Tuttle, Mr. George Dorr of Milton, to Mrs. Lydia C. Legro of Kingston (Dover Enquirer, December 25, 1862).
Daughter Charity Dore died of consumption in Milton, March 16, 1867, aged seventy-eight years. She was single.
Daughter-in-law Lydia C. ((Willand) Legro) Dorr died in Milton, November 21, 1867, aged sixty-eight years, eleven months.
George Dorr, a farm laborer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Caroline [((Fitzgerald) Henderson)] Dorr, keeping house, aged sixty years (b. ME), and Wingate Dorr, a farm laborer, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). George Dorr had personal estate valued at $106; and Wingate Dorr had real estate valued at $800. Their household appeared in the enumeration between the vacant house after the household of John H. Crane, works for shoe factory, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), and the household of Stephen D. Dorr, works for shoe factory, aged thirty-six years (b. NH).
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. JUDGE DOE PRESIDING. … George Dorr vs. Elliott F. Dorr. This case was to settle the title to a house and a piece of land in Milton, the parties being father and son. The son claimed to have bought the premises more than twenty years ago of the mortgagee, and to have been in possession of them ever since, while the father, as mortgagor, endeavored to show that the son had held possession under him. The jury returned a verdict for the Deft. Copeland for Plf., Hobbs for Deft. (Dover Enquirer, September 14, 1871).
George Dorr married (4th [3rd?]) in Great Falls, [Somersworth,] NH, November 12, 1875 [?], Caroline (Fitzgerald) Henderson, he of Milton and she of Great Falls, NH. James G. Young, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born in Eliot (or North Berwick), ME, circa 1809, daughter of Edmund and Sally Fitzgerald.
War of 1812 Pension records noted that veteran George Dore resided in Strafford County (P.O. at Milton Three Ponds) in 1878.
George Dorr, a farmer, aged eighty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Caroline [((Fitzgerald) Henderson)] Dorr, keeping house, aged seventy years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Leander Clements, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and Nathan Jones, aged fifty-five years (b. NH).
Son George Dore died of apoplexy in Milton, August 20, 1880, æ. eighty-one years.
DEATHS. … In Milton, Aug. 20, George Dorr, aged 82 years (Dover Enquirer, September 2, 1880).
Caroline ((Fitzgerald) Henderson) Dorr of Milton received a Bounty Land Warrant (11324-160-155), in 1880, for the War of 1812 service of her deceased husband, George Dorr of Milton. He had been a private, between September 11 and September 29, 1814, in the militia company commanded by Capt. William Courson. They had married in Somersworth, NH, November 12, 1875, and he had died in Milton, August 18, 1880.
Daughter-in-law Caroline ((Fitzgerald) Henderson) Dorr died of paralysis in Milton, August 6, 1884, aged seventy-one years, one month, and fourteen days. She was a widow.
References:
Find a Grave. (2009, September 18). Charity Dorr. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/42115032/charity-dorr
Find a Grave. (2009, September 18). Daniel Dorr. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/42114903/daniel-dorr
Find a Grave. (2009, September 18). George Dorr. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/42114264/george-dorr
MA Secretary of State. (1898). Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing.
Stearns, Ezra H. (1908). Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire. New York, NY: Lewis Publishing Company.
Milton Observer 