page_title: Daniel Sargent Sr.
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Sargent Sr. / Early life
context_page_description: Daniel Sargent Sr. was an American merchant in Gloucester, Massachusetts and then Boston.
context_section_description: Sargent was born on March 18, 1730 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  He was the son of Col. Epes Sargent (1690–1762) and Ester McCarty, daughter of Florence McCarty.  His brothers's were Revolutionary war hero Paul Dudley Sargent (1745–1828) and John Sargent (1750–1824).
  Through his other brother Winthrop Sargent (1727–1793), he was the uncle of Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820), the poet and advocate for women's rights, and Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), Governor of Mississippi Territory. His father was one of the largest landholders in Gloucester and had is portrait painted in 1760 by John Singleton Copley two years before his death in 1762.
caption: Portrait of Sargent's father, Epes Sargent, by John Singleton Copley, 1760
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