Samuel Mather (1651 - 1727)

Born 5 Jul 1651 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Treat) Mather — married 1677 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 18 Mar 1727 at age 75 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Christening Samuell Mather 7 Sep 1651, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States^[1]

birth Sept. 5, 1650

death 18 Mar 1728

Burial Palisado Cemetery Windsor Hartford County Connecticut, USA,^[2]

Occupation

Date: Clergyman for 45 years

Place: Windsor, Conn.

He was a clergyman in Windsor, Conn for 45 years. He was a trustee of Yale College.

Minister of Windsor, graduated at Harvard 1671, was ordained 1682.

He first preached in Deerfield, Mass., until the destruction of that town by Indians in 1675,from there he went to Hatfield, later to Milford and Branford, Conn. and from the latter place he was called to settle in Windsor, Conn in 1682 where he remained until his death.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQT-S4S : 15 January 2020), Samuell Mather, 1651.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20844294/samuel-mather: accessed ), memorial page for Rev Samuel Mather (5 Sep 1650–18 Mar 1728), Find a Grave Memorial ID 20844294, citing Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by V. Nareen Lake (contributor 46613568).

• Type: Ancestral File. Title: Ancestral File (TM). Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Abbreviation: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998. Abbreviation: Church Resources - Ancestral File (TM). Master Listing Source: Y. Repository REPO6. Name: Family History Library. Address: 35 N West Temple Street. Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 330
• Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts (Greenfield, Mass., Press of E.A. Hall & co., 1895) Page 46
• S113: Helen Elizabeth Royce Note: She did genealogical research for Van in Hartford and Washington D.C. She was a cousin of Marion Royces somehow.

Samuel Mather, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
• Samuel Mather, "Find A Grave Index"
• Samuell Mather, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
• Book-Mather, Horace E., Mather Genealogy, Hartford, Conn., 1890, p. 73;Alphabetized Charts (GS ser no 929 pt 82); England Historical and Genealogical Register, (Boston:David Clapp and son, printer)Vol 33, 1879, pp.101-02,2;(Boston:Drake, G.Samuel, Publ)Vol 5, 1851, p. 460;(Albany: Munsell, J.)Vol 16, 1862, p. 153;(Boston:Thomas Prince, Printer and Publisher)Vol 6, 1852, p. 20;
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/MM17-ZKK

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Carol Gibson for creating WikiTree profile Mather-189 through the import of Gibson_Peck Family Trees.ged on Jan 26, 2013.
• This person was created through the import of Savage.ged on 21 February 2011.