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Samuel Hemingway (1636 - 1711)

Deacon Samuel Hemingway aka Heminway
Born in Roxbury, Massachusettsmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 23 Mar 1662 in New Haven, Connecticutmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 75 in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticutmap
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Biography

Samuel, son of Ralph Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, in June, 1636. The name is also spelled by various branches of the family Hemingway, Hemmingway, Hemenway and Hemmenway. He settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of his descendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education and refinement. The town records which he kept as clerk for a long time show his admirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of John Cooper, a magistrate and early settler. Children: Sarah, born July 26, 1663; Samuel, December 13, 1665; Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah, September 14, 1670; Abigail[1]February 16, 1672; John, May 29, 1675; Abraham, December 3, 1677, mentioned below; Isaac (twin), December 6, 1683; Jacob (twin), December 6, 1683, first student in Yale College, B. A., 1704, and pastor of the church in East Haven for fifty years.[2]

Samuel Hemingway died September 20, 1711 at East Haven.[3]

An article in American Ancestors indicates that in 1680 Samuel Hemingway acquired the furnace dam and watercourse of the Branford ironworks which had belonged to Roger Tyler until Tyler's death. In 1709 Samuel Hemingway's sons "erected a fulling mill--to make cloth from wool--where the forge had stood."[4]

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Deacon Samuel Heminway (or Hemingway), was first clerk of the village of East Haven, Connecticut, and also selectman, collector of rates and one of a committee to revise the village records (Dodd's East Haven Register). He married, in 1662, Sarah Cooper, and their children were: John, mentioned below ; Abraham, born December 3, 1677, died August II, 1752. Samuel Heminway died September 20, 1711.

Sources

  1. According to Jacobus’ Families of Ancient New Haven, page 731, this daughter’s name was Elizabeth, not Abigail. And Ricker, page 6137 mentions a daughter born on this date named Elizabeth, but not a daughter Abigail,
  2. Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. New York, NY, USA: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.
  3. Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol III, page 731 (Hemingway Family.)
  4. Alicia Tyler and Marie Tyler-McGraw, "Founder, Forge, and Feuds, Roger Tyler and Early New England Ironworks," American Ancestors, Vol 18, no. 2 (Summer 2017), page 36.
  • Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917-1924), 1:37. 'Elisabeth daughter of Samuell Heminway was borne [th]e 16th of ffebruary 1672'




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