Samuel Drury (abt. 1763 - aft. 1830)

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 1830 after about age 66 in Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States [uncertain]

Biography

Birth

It is claimed that the Samuel Drury of Alstead and Langdon, New Hampshire, was born at Temple, New Hampsire, on 10 Jul 1763, the son of Zedekiah Drury and Hannah (Flagg) Drury. No firm evidence has been found to support this claim, which was made by the originator of this profile in 2012, citing only firsthand knowledge as a source.^[1] See the Research Notes below.

Marriage

On 30 Sep 1782, Samuel Drury and Susanna Willson published at Shirley, Massachusetts, their intention to marry.^[2] Their first child was born at Shirley on 28 Mar 1783.^[3] See the Research Notes below.

Residences

Samuel and Susanna Drury moved from Shirley, Massachusetts, to Alstead, New Hampshire. They were there by the birth of their daughter Rebeckah in June 1787.^[4] They were living in the neighboring town of Langdon in 1800,^[5] but by 1810 they were back in Alstead.^[6]

Death

No record has been found of the death of Samuel Drury. In 1830, he was living at Alstead, New Hampshire,^[7] and that is the last record found of him.

Research Notes

• The claim that Samuel Drury was born at Temple, New Hampsire, on 10 Jul 1763, the son of Zedekiah Drury and Hannah (Flagg) Drury. was made in a 2010 monograph, "Some Descendants of Hugh Drury a Narrative Genealogy," citing only a GEDCOM upload, a DAR application by a Jan Gardner, and a genealogysource.com link that now (September 2021) leads to an error page.^[8] The same claim is made on dozens of Ancestry.com family trees, none of which cite any sources (other than other Ancestry.com trees). The 1860 history of Temple, New Hampshire, says that Samuel's claimed father, Zedekiah Drury, had four sons, which it names as Thomas, Daniel, Ebenezer, and Gershom, and the every-name index of that volume has no mention of a Samuel Drury.^[9] In 1830, Samuel Drury was living at Alstead, New Hampshire, between 60 and 70 years old,^[7] so 1763 is a feasible birth date—although that would make him just 19 at his marriage, a little younger than the usual first marriage age for men in New England in this period.
• The same essentially unsourced 2010 monograph on the descendants of Hugh Drury says that Samuel Drury had two wives after Susanna Wilson, first, Rebecca Richardson, and second, Betsey Hart, whom he married on 16 Feb 1826.^[8] The 1932 history of Langdon, New Hampshire, says that his wife Rebecca Richardson was the mother of Rebecca (Drury) Howard.^[10] No other evidence has been found of either of these supposed marriages, and the birth record of Rebeckah Drury says that her mother's name was Susanna.^[4]

(Research Notes by WikiTree contributor Stu Bloom, 3 Sep 2021)

Sources

1. ↑ Marsha Johnson, firsthand knowledge, Jul 7, 2012
2. ↑ Transcription made in 1918 of the marriage intention of Samuel Drury and Susanna Willson, in Vital records of Shirley, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass., 1918), page 174
3. ↑ Transcription made in 1918 of the birth record of Susanna Drury, daughter of Samuel and Susanna, in Vital records of Shirley, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass., 1918), page 28
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Transcription made in 1904 by the town clerk of Alstead, New Hampshire of the birth record of Rebeckah Drury, in New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900, database with images, FamilySearch > 004243731 > image 196 of 5108; Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.
5. ↑ Sam'l Drury household, in United States Census, 1800, database with images, FamilySearch > New Hampshire > Cheshire > Langdon > image 1 of 3; citing NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Sam'l Drewry household, in United States Census, 1810, database with images, FamilySearch > New Hampshire > Cheshire > Alstead > image 8 of 10; citing NARA microfilm publication M252, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Samuel Drury household, in United States Census, 1830, database with images, FamilySearch > New Hampshire > Cheshire > Alstead > image 5 of 20; citing NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Dale C. Gunn of Hudson, Massachusetts, "Some Descendants of Hugh Drury, a Narrative Genealogy," available (as of September 2021) for download as a PDF file at the cupdf website, pages 10-11
9. ↑ Henry Ames Blood, The History of Temple, N. H., (Boston, 1860). page 258 footnote
10. ↑ Frank Burnside Kingsbury, History and genealogical register of the town of Langdon, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, from the date of its severance from Walpole and Charlestown, from 1787 to 1930, with a map of the town (White River Junction, Vt., 1932), page 491.