Samuel Smith (1641-1691) is number 544 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #545 Sarah (Clark) Bowers (1651-1704) in 1677 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son #272 Henry Smith (1680-1743) who married #273 Ruth Barber (1696-1761) in 1730.
* their son #136 Moses Smith (1736-1806) who married #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780) in 1762.
* their son #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.
* their son #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840) who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.
* their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.
* their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Samuel Smith[1–2]
* Alternate Name: Samual Smith[4]
* Alternate Name: Samuell Smith[3,5–7]
* Sex: Male
* Father: Henry Smith (1607-1687)
* Mother: Elizabeth Tailour (1603-1670)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 13 October 1641, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1,3–4]
* Death: 25 October 1691 (age 50), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Burial: after 25 October 1691 (after age 50), no known gravesite; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Elizabeth Turner (1647-1676)
* Marriage 1: 22 December 1669 (age 28), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[6]
* Child 1: Elizabeth Smith (1670-1671)
* Child 2: Elizabeth Smith (1672-1704)
* Child 3: Samuel Smith (1674-1742)
* Spouse 2: Sarah Clark (1651-1704)
* Marriage 2: 22 February 1677 (age 35), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[7]
* Child 4: Sarah Smith (1679-1769)
* Child 5: Henry Smith (1680-1743)
* Child 6: Daniel Smith (1682-1704)
* Child 7: Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762)
* Child 8: Abigail Smith (1686-1725)
* Child 9: Mary Smith (1688-1774)
* Child 10: Prudence Smith (1691-1784)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
William S. Tilden edited the book History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886[1]. The family genealogy section of the book provides this summary for Samuel Smith:
"Samuel Smith inherited his father's house lot and buildings. He married in 1669 Elizabeth Turner. When the Indians made their attack upon the town, Elizabeth took her youngest child, then a year and a half, in her arms, and ran toward the fort. When a little way from the house, the savages overtook her, and killed her by a blow on the head. The child was thrown on the ground, stunned, and left for dead, but recovered consciousness, and, when found, had crept to the dead body of its mother. One year from that day, Samuel married Sarah, widow of John Bowers, who had also been killed by the Indians. He died in 1691, his widow in 1704."
Samuel Smith was born 13 October 1641 in Dedham, Massachusetts, the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Tailour) Smith[1,3-4]. The Dedham record says:
"Samual the son of Henry & Elizabeth Smithwas borne the 13 of the 8 mo [1641]"
The Henry Smith family moved from Dedham to Medfield in about 1652, and took a lot on South Street.
Samuel married, first, Elizabeth Turner, on 22 December 1669 in Medfield[6]. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Marsh) Turner. They had three children, all born in Medfield:
* Elizabeth Smith (1670-1671)
* Elizabeth Smith (1672-1704), married 1692 Eleazer Partridge (1665-1736)
* Samuel Smith (1674-1742), married 1695 Elizabeth Adams (1672-1754).
After his first wife's death on 21 February 1676, Samuel Smith married, second, Sarah (Clark) Bowers, on 22 February 1677 in Medfield[7]. She was the daughter of Joseph and Alice (Fenn) Clark, and the widow of John Bowers (1646-1676), by whom she had had a son, John Bowers (1675-1729). Samuel and Sarah had seven children, all born in Medfield:
* Sarah Smith (1679-1769), married (1) 1701 Mathias Evans (1670-1725); (2) 1726 Henry Harding (1673-1764).
* Henry Smith (1680-1743), married (1) 1703 Deborah Pratt (1684-1705); (2) 1708 Mary Adams (1681-1725); (3) 1730 Ruth Barber (1696-1761).
* Daniel Smith (1682-1704).
* Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762), married (1) 1705 Mary Clark (1687-1717); (2) 1717 Lydia Partridge (1687-1773).
* Abigail Smith (1686-1726), married 1705 John Fisher (1677-1727).
* Mary Smith (1688-1774), married (1) 1706 Henry Plimpton (1684-1731); (2) 1732 Jabez Pond (1677-1749); (3) 1750 Joseph Wight (1681-1756).
* Prudence Smith (1691-1784), married (1) 1711 Joseph White (1683-1737); (2) 1739 Benoni Benson (1684-1761).
Samuel Smith died on 25 October 1691 in Medfield, aged 50[5]. There is a Find A Grave memorial for him, but there is no gravestone photograph[2].
He did not have a probate record in Suffolk or Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
SOURCES:
1. William S Tilden and John A S Monks, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries (Boston, Mass.: G.H. Ellis, 1887), page 481, Samuel Smith sketch.
2. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), no known gravesite, Medfield, Mass., Samuel Smith memorial #53565165.
3. Don Gleason Hill (editor), The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham,1635-1845 (Dedham, Mass. : Town of Dedham, 1886), page 2, Samuell Smith birth entry, 1641.
4. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Dedham births, Marriages, Deaths, no page number (image 3 of 1961), Samual Smith birth entry.
5. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Deaths, page 235, Samuell Smith death entry, 1691.
6. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 174, Samuell Smith and Elizabeth Turner marriage entry, 1669.
7. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 174, Samuell Smith and Sarah Bowers marriage entry, 1677.
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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.
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