Daniel Burnet

Daniel Burnet (July 11, 1760s – May 7, 1827) was an American plantation owner, surveyor, and Mississippi legislator.

Biography He was the oldest of nine children born to John and Catherine Devonport Burnet, English settlers of the Carolinas. His gravestone is generally transcribed as birthyear 1763, and he built a mill on Bayou Pierre that lent its works to the placename Grindstone Ford. He assisted Stephen Minor and William Dunbar "in surveying the boundary between West Florida and the Mississippi Territory".

He was appointed U.S. postmaster at Grindstone Ford on the Natchez Trace in 1805. He served as president of the Mississippi Territory legislative council from 1805 to 1809, and was speaker of the house from 1813 to 1815. One obituary said he was 50 years old when he died. served in the Mississippi Territory legislature.

His first wife was named Patterson.