Samuel Weed Sr. (1717 - 1786)

Born 13 Apr 1717 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Waterbury) Weed — married 10 Jan 1740 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 1786 at about age 68 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Samuel Weed was born on 13 April 1717 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony.^[1][2][3] He was the son of Benjamin Weed and Mary Pennoyer.^[1]

He married Hannah Waterbury on 10 January 1739/40 in Stamford.^[1][2][4] They had the following children:^[1]

1. Samuel Weed, b. 27 Sep 1740
2. Hannah Weed, b. 22 Mar 1741/2
3. Benjamin Weed, b. 3 Feb 1743/4
4. David Weed, b. 13 Dec 1745
5. Elizabeth Weed, b. 24 Jun 1748
6. Mary Weed, b. 5 Dec 1750

Samuel died in 1786 in Stamford.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Huntington
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Barbour Collection
3. ↑ Finch
4. ↑ Mead
5. ↑ Ancestral File

• Huntington, Elijah Baldwin. Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths (Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., Stamford, Conn., 1874) Page 125, Page 127.

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 42 (Stamford Vital Records) Page 315 contains:

• "Samuel [Weed], s. Benjamin & Mary, b. Apr. 13, 1717".
• "Samuel [Weed], s. Sergt. Benjamin, m. Hannah Waterbery, Jan. 10, 1739/40".

• Finch, Paul R. Stamford Town Records, Volume 1, 1641-1723, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2011) Pages 78, 167.

• Mead, Penfield Comstock and Hart, Frederick C. Pen Mead's Weed Family Dictionary (New Canaan Historical Society, New Canaan, Connecticut, 2004) Pages 22, 156.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MZF8-D7X : accessed 17 July 2022), entry for Samuel Weed Sr. ;[Sgt.] (KM8S-WN); record merged from multiple submissions. Unknown data accuracy. No source is provided for Samuel Weed information.