Samuel Spooner (1655 - 1739)

Born 14 Jan 1655 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Experience (Wing) Spooner — married 1688 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1739 at about age 83 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

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Biography

Samuel Spooner, the son of William Spooner and Hannah Pratt, was born January 14, 1655 in Plymouth, Massachusetts and died in 1739 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.

He married Experience (Wing) Spooner (1668-1759)^[1] in 1688.^[2]

He m. Experience Wing, d. of Daniel and Anna (Ewer) Wing, b. Aug. 4, 1668; she was living Sept., 1731."

"The deed of his homestead conveys

" One hundred and four acres and half, with allowance for barren land and rocky, and also for a way; Situate and being on ye eastward side of Acooshnet river, ______ abounds between sd homestead and ye homestead of Thomas Hathway, _____ to a fence ye bounds between sd homestead and ye homestead of John Jenne _____; sd homestead bounded eastward by undivided land, north by ye homestead of John Jenne in part, part on ye land of John Spooner, part on ye land of Samuel Spooner; southward on ye homestead of Thomas Hathaway; westward on ye marsh and sd Acoshnet river, qualified by Abraham Tucker's homestead and the land that belongs on ye right of sd Samuel Spooner on ye Eight Hundred Acre division." The date of the execution of this deed by the Proprietors was April 9, 1711.

He was constable in 1680;^[1] and again in 1684;^[1] served on grand and petit juries^[1] and held other positions of trust. He and his brother John, with others of the Dartmouth proprietors were defendants in suits brought by Zacharvy Allin and others, Oct. 28, 1684, and by William Wood and others, March, 1686. On trial of the first action, the jury "found for the defendants with the costs of suit," and in the latter action the plaintiffs were non-suited.

His will has date, September 27, 1731, and was proved Feb. 19, 1739 and is of record as follows:^[3]

" In the name of God, Amen. This twenty-first day of September, 1731, I, Samuel Spooner, of Dartmouth, in the County of Bristol, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, Yeoman, Do make this my last Will and Testament, respecting such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give and dispose of in the following manner & form:

Imps.—My will is and I hereby give and bequeath to Experience, my dearly beloved wife, one featherbed and furniture to it, at her election, with all other my household goods and utensils within doors during her widowhood, and that with what my three sons, viz: William, Samuel and Seth, are otherwise obliged to do for her interests, will be an honorable support for her during her remaining my widow.

" Item.—I give to my three sons, William, Samuel, and Seth, & it to be to them, their heirs and assigns forever, all my Cedar & Spruce Swamp lying in Dartmouth, and the same to be divided between them in manner following, that is to say: William to have the one-fifth part thereof, and Samuel to have the one-fifth part thereof, and Seth to have three-fifths parts thereof; and this I give them with a charge to be kind to their honored mother and brother Jashub, and provide for them as they shall stand in need, as by covenant they are obliged unto.

" Item.—I give unto my son, Daniel Spooner, besides what I have already given, one shilling out of my moveable estate, immediately after my death.

"Item.—I give unto my son, Wing Spooner, besides what I have already given, one shilling out of my moveable estate, immediately after my death.

" Item.—I give to my son Jashub, one shilling out of my estate, with a desire of his good careage under the provision I have made for his comfortable support by his brothers, William, Samuel and Seth Spooner.

" Item.—I give to my son, Seth Spooner, whom I constitute and appoint sole executor of this my last will and testament, all my out door moveables, as creatures and husbandry tackling, and he to pay all my just debts, as by covenant he is obliged to do.

" Item.—I give to my five daughters, Mary, Hannah, Annah, Experience and Beulah, besides what I have heretofore given them, one shilling apiece, each of them; and that, with the legacies I have ordered my sons, Daniel and Wing Spooner, to pay them, with what household goods shall remain after my wife's decease which I give her the improvement of, together with such moveable estate as I have not in this my will before disposed of, to be equally divided between them, my said five daughters, and that to be their portion of my estate.

" Lastly.—Whatever estate in lands that I shall be the owner of, or that in any way be appertaining to me that I have not already disposed of, the same, what or wheresoever, be equally divided between all my sons, and to be to them, their heirs and assigns forever; and I do hereby ratify this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.

" In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and year above written."

Samuel Spooner. [seal.]

Witnesses. William Badcock, Thomas West, Thomas Pope and Timothy Ruggles.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Virkus, Frederick Adams. The abridged compendium of American genealogy: first families of America: a genealogical encyclopedia of the United States. Vol. VI. 1937, p. 28. Chicago, Illinois: The Institute of American Genealogy.
2. ↑ Torry, Clarence A.; New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Page 697 Ancestry Record 3824 #68245 * Ancestry Sharing Link
3. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991; Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Records 1690-1881; Ancestry Record 9069 #261761 * Ancestry Sharing Link
4. ↑ Thomas Spooner, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth Mass. And His Descendants, Vol. 1, (Cincinnati, 1883) pgs. 29-31 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101068576972?urlappend=%3Bseq=33%3Bownerid=27021597768515420-37

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