Samuel Dakin (1770 - 1844)

Born 17 Nov 1770 in Mason, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Farrar) Dakin — married 31 May 1801 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 29 Jan 1844 at age 73 in New Hartford, Oneida Co., New York, USA

Biography

When Samual Dakin was born on November 17, 1770, in Mason, New Hampshire, his father, Amos, was 38 and his mother, Thankful, was 33. ^{[1] [2] [3]} He married Polly Farrar on May 31, 1801, in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. ^{[4] [5]} They had seven children in 12 years. ^{[6] [7]} He died on January 24, 1844, in New Hartford, New York, at the age of 73, and was buried in Utica, New York. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

Sources

1. ↑ New Hampshire, Birth Records, through 1900.” Online index and digital images. New England Historical Genealogical Society. Citing New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire.
2. ↑ Bowman, Fred Q. 10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986.
3. ↑ Dakin, Albert H. Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass. Dakin, Albert H. Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle Publishing Co., 1948, page 40 [1]
4. ↑ New Hampshire Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records 1637–1947
5. ↑ Dakin, Albert H. Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass. Dakin, Albert H. Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle Publishing Co., 1948, page 40 [2]
6. ↑ Risley, Edwin Hills, The Risley family history, including records of the early English Risleys'...New York, Graphton Press, 1909. page 76 [3]
7. ↑ Dakin, Albert H. Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass. Dakin, Albert H. Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle Publishing Co., 1948, page 40 [4]
8. ↑ New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) for Samuel Dakin: New York Evening Post, 1844, February (New Hartford, Oneida Co., NY 29th ult, Samuel Dakin, counsellor at law in 74 y.)
9. ↑ Descendants of Thomas Dakin of Concord, Mass. Dakin, Albert H. (Albert Harlow), 1866-1945. [5]
10. ↑ Bowman, Fred Q. 10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986.

See Also:

• Milton Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
• Thurston Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
• Fourth Census of the United States, 1820. (NARA microfilm publication M33, 142 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Census Place: Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; Page: 818; NARA Roll: M33_61; Image: 152
• Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Census Place: New Hartford, Oneida, New York; Series: M19; Roll: 99; Page: 54; Family History Library
• 1 Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Census Place: New Hartford, Oneida, New York; Roll: 313; Page: 57; Family History Library Film: 0017199
• Bowman, Fred Q. Eastern New York, 10,000 Vital Records, 1777-1834. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. (Child: Sophia)
• Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. (Child: Mary Louise)
• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. (Child: Samuel Dana)
• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. Vol. 156 (Child: Sophia
• New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) for Samuel Dakin: New York Evening Post, 1844, February (New Hartford, Oneida Co., NY 29th ult, Samuel Dakin, counsellor at law in 74 y.)

Obituary

DIED At his residence in New Hartford on the 29th of January after a short but severe illness Samuel Dakin Esq. in the 76th year of his age. "My ways are not your ways neither are my thoughts your thoughts saith the Lord" Thus thought I as I gazed on the closed eyes the sealed lips and the stiffened form of him whom death had suddenly arrested in a career of unusual activity and usefulness. The snows of seventh three winters had whitened his venerable head without destroying the elasticity of his step or abating his unwearied zeal in doing good when his Heavenly Master called him home. Sudden and overwhelming was the blow dark and mysterious the dispensation. Around him and entwined with his very existence were clustered the choicest affections of wife and children, kindred and friends.

Society was looking up to him who in assured old age was a noble example of every social virtue and a bright pattern of the Christian life. The church was depending on him who had proven in many a trying hour a faithful and well tried friend. But three weeks since he stood among us in his usual health and strength actively employed in labours of benevolence and love and zealously performing the self sacrificing duties of husband and father, friend and Christian and now he is with the dead. In a moment he has been taken away ere our hearts were prepared for the bereavment, and while we were yet whispering to ourselves and to each other he will be spared in mercy to us "this sickness is not unto Death " This loss has made a blank which long years cannot fill, his death has caused tears to flow whose source will not soon be dried up. He will long be missed by his own domestic fireside where sits in silent grief his wife who for more than forty years trod lifes pathway by his side sharing his every joy and sorrow. There will his children miss the tender father who watched over their childhood in youth and the unfailing friend and kind adviser of their maturer years. The poor will miss the compassionate benefactor who never turned them empty away, who appreciated worth in the most humble and delighted to draw the virtuous from unmerited obscurity. But in the sanctuary of our God will he be peculiarly missed. For years his voice led the song of praise and no obstacle was suffered to keep him from the place where prayer was wont to be made. The church of which he was a bright ornament may well embalm his memory with her tears for in him she has lost one whose council and support were freely given in time of trial that threatened her very existence. When the hallowed ties of pastor and people were sundered when times of pecuniary trial awaited her when friends were few and hope almost extinct he ever had words of encouragement to give and always spoke of better and happier days. The past is thickly strewn with memories of what he has done in his behalf. And to every member of the flock with whom he was associated as a worshipper in the same sanctuary will his name long be fraught with the most grateful recollections. But he has gone beyond the reach of human praises his record is on high and we who survive will best evidence our love and reverence to his memory by cordially supporting and cherishing that church which occupied so large a place in his affections and which was the object of his anxious thoughts and cares even while lying on the bed of death.

Communicated at the meeting of the Wardens and Vestry of St. Stephens Church New Hartford on occasion of the death of Samuel Dakin Esq. the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.

Resolved: That we sympathize with the family and friends of the deceased in their heavy bereavement and tender them our warmest condolences Resolved: That we attend his funeral and wear the usual badge of mourning on the occasion.

Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased likewise they be published in the Gospel Messenger

By: T. Sanger M. T. Eggleston Wardens

Note: On the late Festival of the Nativity it was our privilege and enjoyment to officiate in St. Stephens and to administer "the most comfortable Sacrament of the body and blood Christ," None of the company who knelt there before the Holy table apparently more enjoyed "the banquet of that most heavenly food" than did our venerable friend whose voice we then as often indeed before we have heard leading the songs of the temple. As we retired from the chancel we marked some peculiarly touching expressions of gratitude made by him as he took our hand as I t has proved for the last time. Our condolence is with his family and the beloved little flock of which he was an ornament. Editor of "The Messenger"

My Father

Written by Sophia Dakin

Father was born in Mason, N.H. Nov. 17th 1770, graduated at Dartmouth College, studied Law and entered upon the practice in Jaffrey N. H. in the fall of 1815 he removed to New York State and located in New Hartford which was then a larger place than Utica. On arriving there he found that he could not practice law in the state until he had been in the state three years, which was then the law. Having a young family to support it was necessary for him to do something, consequently y he engaged in teaching - took the village school and taught not only "the young in how to shoot" but taught the languages, and fitted young men for college. He continued teaching six years when, becoming tired of it, he entered again upon the practice of the law fom1ing a partnership with Judge James Dean. There were several other Lawyers in the place but about that time Utica took a start and went ahead of New Hartford. They all left and went to Utica, except father did not, but remained in the place of his first adoption and was truly a blessing to the place. Would that I could suitably portray his noble character. His knowledge of the law was great and his information on all subjects vast. To my youthful l mind it seemed as if there was nothing he did not know. He held several town offices - was Justice of the Peace many years and was truly y a Peace Maker. Instead of fomenting strife for the sake of the fees he was always counseling peace, and the settlement of difficulties. Many a man has come into his office full of wrath, anxious to take a warrant right out for some trivial offence who has been wholly subdued by his wife and gentle counsels, and gone out of his office ready to give the hand of peace and friendship to his offending neighbor. He was many years attorney for the Oneida, Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and has their confidence and affection in a high degree. In New Hampshire he was a member of the Congregational Church but when he came to New Hartford the preaching of the Pastor of the Presbyterian Church was of such a fierce, denunciatory style and so utterly at variance with his own feelings that it drove him in to Universalist church where he remained until the Episcopal Church was organized which met his views so entirely that he entered heart and soul into it and was ever after an untiring worker for it. His voice for years led the song of praise, and no labor was termed too great to him if there by he could promote the welfare and prosperity of the church of his love. He married in 1801 the daughter of the Rev. Stephen Farrar of New Ipswich whom I cannot better describe than in the words of Solomon. "She openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness. Her children rise up and call her blessed, and her husband he praiseth her. "

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Acknowledgments

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