"Samuel Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gilbert) was born in Hatfield, Mass., Sept. 27, 1678. He removed to Deerfield in 1706, where he died Aug. 25, 1762, aged eighty-three. He was one of twenty-two men who came from Hatfield, that were engaged in the Meadow fight in the unsuccessful attempt to rescue the prisoners taken at the destruction of Deerfield by the French and Indians, Feb. 29, 1704...
...He married Mary, daughter of Joseph Edwards, of Northhampton, and widow of David Hoyt, Jr. who was one of the nine men killed in the Meadow fight trying to rescue the prisoners." [1]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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