Background
Burrows, Daniel was born on October 26, 1766 in Fort Hill, Groton, Connecticut, United States.
Burrows, Daniel was born on October 26, 1766 in Fort Hill, Groton, Connecticut, United States.
Later, he studied theology and was ordained as a minister of the Methodist Church.
He was the uncle of Lorenzo Burrows who was a United States Representative from New New York He engaged in the manufacture of carriages and wagons at New London. He was one of the commissioners to establish the boundary line between the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1822.
After leaving Congress, he became a resident of Middletown 1823–1854. He was a surveyor and inspector of customs for the port of Middletown 1823–1847.
He died in Mystic in 1858 and was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery.
Burrows was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives 1816–1820 and in 1826 and served as a delegate to the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1818.