Samuel Mann (1647 - 1719)

Born 6 Jul 1647 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 22 May 1719 at age 71 in Wrentham, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

From Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University Class of 1665

Rev. Samuel Man, B. A., of Wrentham, Massachusetts, born 6 July, 1647, was the only son of William Man, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by his first wife, Mary Jarrard.

May 13, 1667, the graduate agreed to "teach the male children" of Dedham, Massachusetts, "thatt shall be sent to him in English, writeing, Grammar, and Arithmeticke for ... one whole yeare from 27th this instant moneth for ... £20 in Such payt and at such prices as the Countrey Rate shall accept for that yeare one halfe to be payed at the end of each halfe yeare at his assignmt in Dedham." April 26, 1669, he was to be paid "£20 in corne at prices currant"; but 9 May, 1670, he was to "receave no indian corne for more than three shillings per bushel."

The renewal of the engagement, 26 April, 1672, was with the condition of "allways excepting his engagement to Wollomonappoage and upon that occasion he to give the Selectmen two moneths notice that thet may supply themselves." After teaching more than five years he was succeeded, 17 June, 1672, by Jer. (?) Burroughs.

"13: 10: 1672. This day Mr. Man sent six pence in money in satisfaction for three quarrells of glass broken by the schollars while he kept the schoole, which is left in the hands of Nath. Fisher."

February 24, 1672-3, "a bill is given unto Mr. Samuel Man to receive of the constable £8 10s. In full satisfaction for all dues to him for keeping the schoole in Dedham this is to be payd in Indin corne at 3s per bushel." At the same town meeting "Tho. Thurston, Henry Wight, and Thomas ffuler are deputed and empowred to lay out a house lott" for him at Wollomonapoge "and to take care about the church lott there."

October 17, 1673. "In ansr to the petićion of the inhabitants of Wollonopaug the [General] Court judgeth it meet to give the petićioners all due encouragement conduceable to their settlement, together wth the present minister, according to their desires; and to that end doe heerby grant them all the libertjes & priviledges of a touneship, their extent to be as by agreement betweene Dedham & them, and that it be called Wrentham."

He preached to the small society in the part of Dedham, now Wrentham, till 30 March 1676, when the inhabitants were drawn off by reason of "an Indian War," after which the Indians burnt all the dwellings but two.

He appears again in Dedham as a teacher in the years 1676, 1677, and 1678.

November 13, 1677, the town of Rehoboth "voted that an invitation might be given to Mr. Man for to be helpful in the work of the ministry for this winter."

Early in the spring of 1678 he was engaged to preach at Milton. Here, it is said, he was about to receive a call to be settled, when several if the inhabitants who had gone from Wrentham affixed their names to an engagement to return, and a committee was sent to treat with him about resuming his ministry there. "So great was his affection for the people of Wrentham, and so desirous was he of the plantation's going on," that "he and divers of the inhabitants" returned 21 August, 1680. There he continued his ministerial labors till a church of ten persons was gathered 13 April, 1692, and he was ordained, preaching his own ordination sermon. "Mr. Brinsmead gave ye Charge, and Mr. Gookin ye Right Hand of Fellowship."

October 26, 1699, "in the dead of night," his dwellinghouse with the church records was burnt.

"It is said that he was much afflicted with bodily weakness and infirmities, and that for twenty-five years before his death did not go out of his own town."

"One of the first men, if not the first, in this Province, and who was esteemed a good judge of the powers and abilities of men, said. . . that 'he was not only a very good, but a very great and learned man."

Marriage and Children May 19, 1673, Man married Esther, born 28 September, 1655, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Hunting) Ware of Dedham, probably the part of Dedham incorporated as Wrentham. She died 3 September, 1734. They had six sons and five daughters, of whom there are notices in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, iv. 83; vi. 147; and xiii. 325, 364. Rev. Samuel Man and wife Esther, had children born in Wrentham and Milton, Mass.:

• Mary (Mann) Deering (1674-1758), b. 7 Apr 1674, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA , d. 5 Mar 1758, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA; m. Samuel Dearing, May 4, 1708,
• Samuel Mann (1675-1732) b. 8 Aug 1675, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA , d. 16 Oct 1732, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
• Nathaniel Mann (1677-1756), b. 9 Apr 1677, Milton, Norfolk County, MA , d. 11 May 1756, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
• William Mann (1679-1765), b. 1 May 1679, Milton, Norfolk County, MA , d. 22 Mar 1765, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
• Theadore Mann (1680-1761), b. 8 Feb 1680, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA , d. 29 Jul 1761, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
• Thomas Mann (1682-1756), b. 24 Oct 1682, Milton, Norfolk County, MA , d. 10 Sep 1756, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA
• Hannah (Mann) Davis (1685-aft.1735), b. 12 Jan 1685, Milton, Norfolk County, MA , d. 25 Oct 1739, Massachusetts; m. Samuel Davis, April 30, 1707.
• Beriah (Mann) Hawes (1687-1734), b. 30 Mar 1687, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA , d. 28 Feb 1733/1734, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA; m. Daniel Hawes (b. March 30, 1684), Dec. 20, 1710
• Pelatiah Man (1689-1765), b. 2 Apr 1689, Milton, Norfolk County, MA , d. 16 Feb 1765, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA; m. Jemima Farrington.
• Margaret (Mann) Whiting (1691-1775), b. 21 Dec 1691, Milton, Norfolk County, MA , d. 11 Jan 1775, Medfield, Norfolk County, MA; m. Nathaniel Whiting, April 18, 1711
• Esther (Mann) Fisher (1696-1770), b. 26 Jun 1696, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA , d. 20 Jan 1770, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA; m. Isaac Fisher, Dec. 30, 1719
• son Mann, b. 26 Jun 1696, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA , d. 26 Jun 1696, Wrentham, Norfolk County, MA

Death The Right Reverend Samuel Mann passed away 22 May 1719, Wrentham, Norfolk county, Massachusetts.

Sources

• Mann, George S. Mann Memorial. A Record of the Mann Family in America. Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Man of Scituate, Mass. pub. 1884, Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1884. Samuel Man is Record #2, Cambridge or Wrentham Branch, Pgs. 18, 19.Mann Memorial: Samuel Man, Record #2
• Dedham historical register, by Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), https://archive.org/details/dedhamhistoricalv6dedh/page/126/mode/2up?q=Samuel+Mann
• Genealogy of the Mann Family, by Rev. Joel Mann. Samuel Mann, son of William Mann, is mentioned on Pgs. 3 and 6.Genealogy of the Mann Family, Pg. 3. Also: Pg. 6.
• Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by John Langdon Sibley, M.A., Volume II, 1655 - 1677, Charles William Sever, Cambridge, 1881. University Press, Frank Wilson & Son, Cambridge. Samuel Man, Class of 1665, Pgs. 190 - 193.Samuel Man, Class of 1665
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 1, p. 148-153)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #10943434
• Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org). Case 4195: Will.
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13, pages 325, 249, 327, and 365, https://books.google.com/books?id=54PTaKTLJroC&pg=RA1-PA325&dq=%22Samuel+Man%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAtJv7qtHyAhXFY98KHSUvBR8Q6AEwC3oECDwQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Samuel%20Man%22&f=false

Acknowledgements

• Jeff Kimber, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
• Mark Clarke, Monday, April 28, 2014.
• Nick Dann, 26 Jan 2018.
• Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear