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.
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