Daniel Morehouse Uel
- Born: Nov 26, 1758, Weston, Fairfield, CT
- Marriage: Jane Gill Apr 30, 1783, Lancaster, PA
- Died: Jan 20, 1835, Burtt's Corner, NB, at age 76
- Buried: Upper Queensbury, York, NB
 Noted events in his life were:
• Military Service: during the Revolutionary War as a Loyalist Corporal in Captain Bernard Kane's Company of New York Volunteers, 1779, Savannah, GA.
• Military Service: as a Sergeant in Captain Shank's Company of the Queen's American Rangers, 1780, New York. J. Graves Simcoe, Esqr., was Lt. Colonel Commandant.
• Friendship: Benedict Arnold: Fredericton, York, NB. The notorious Benedict Arnold once lived in Fredericton. His negotiations with the English were arranged by Jonathan Odell, a Fredericton Loyalist who published Canada's first English poetry. Benedict Arnold's tall case clock is now in the Daniel Morehouse house at Kings Landing Historical Settlement west of Fredericton. Both Daniel and Benedict were from Norwalk, CT.
• Cemetery: Dumfries Church Yard, 1835, Upper Queensbury, York, NB. This cemetery was located on the west side of the St. John River, just opposite his home. It was relocated in the 1960s to the Southampton Cemetery, due to the flooding caused by the Mactaquac Dam Project. Daniel's home was also relocated to an outdoor museum on the east bank of the St. John called Kings Landing.
Daniel married Jane Gill on Apr 30, 1783 in Lancaster, PA. (Jane Gill was born about 1757, christened on Aug 4, 1789 in Maugerville, Sunbury, NB and died on Aug 29, 1829 in Upper Queensbury, York, NB.)
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