Samuel Whitehead
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Samuel Whitehead (1610 - 1690)

Samuel Whitehead
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Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 9 May 1676 in New Haven, Connecticutmap
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Died at about age 80 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticutmap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Samuel Whitehead migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 7, p. 351)
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Biography

Origins and birth unknown[1]

He was granted land in 1634/5 so must have been at least 21 by this time.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Stephen Whitehead, was at Cambridge, Massachusetts, as early as 5 Jan 1634/5 when he received a 2 acre grant.[2] A year later 4 Jan 135/6, "Will Towne shall have the two acres there which Samuell Whithead should have had"[2]

Hartford

Samuel Whitehead's name is on the Hartford Founder's Monument. There is no record in Hartford of him having acquired the land, but later records show that Richard Lord owned a houselot which he bought of Samuel Whitehead and John Skinner had a small parcel that he bought from Whitehead.[3] These were parcels 57 and 59 1/2 on the map, in the middle of town, across from the meeting house.

New Haven Colony

4 June 1639 Samuel Whitehead, and 62 others, signed the New Haven Fundamental Agreement[4] establishing the government which would stay in effect until the end of 1665. 6 August 1642 "Brother Abbott and brother Whitehead admitted members of the Court and received the charge of freemen."[5] 1 July 1644, Samuel and the other men in town took the Oath of Fidelity to the government of New Haven.[6]

Living in New Haven required responsibilities to the town and colony. All able bodied men served in the trainband, a military unit for the defense against enemies. The men shared the watch in the wee hours of the night and some were assigned each week to attend services with their arms. Many men, during the early years, held positions in town of one kind or another, from fenceviewers to the Governor. Samuel held the following offices.

New Haven selectman many times between 1652 and 1674.[7][8]
Assessor 15 Oct 1649[9]
Treasurer 30 Apr 1672 [10]
Fenceviewer on numerous occasions[11][12][13]
Surveyor of Highways in 1666, 1667 and 1679[14]
Hayward 28 April 1685.[15]
Collector for the college corn 1648.[16]
Sealer of corn measures 1665[17]
Part of committed to set the boundaries between New Haven and Wallingford 28 March 1673[18]
Petit Jury member,, town of New Haven[19]

Samuel fought in the Pequot War, 1637, for which he was awarded 50 acres of land by the Connecticut Colony in 1671.[20] The completion of this war cleared the area of the natives allowing settlements like New Haven. Whitehead was chosen a corporal of the New haven trainband 6 Aug 1642,[21] and ten years later 7 June 1652, Corporal Samuel Whitehead was chosen sergeant.[22] The Sergeant was one of the officers from Milford selected to serve in a planned expedition against the Dutch in 1654.[23] The Connecticut General Court confirmed his position as Sergeant of the New Haven Trainband 6 July 1665[24] New Haven Colony had given up it's autonomy as a government and joined with Connecticut the previous December. Age became an issue and on 16 June 1673, "Sergeant Samll Whitehead upon his desire, being lame, was freed from being sergeant." [25]

New Haven Colony was run on Christian principles, using the Bible as it's guide. Samuel and his wife had assigned seats in the meeting house[26][27][28][29]

Samuel acquired a good amount of land during his life.

  • 1640 Early list of estates: 2 persons, estate valued at £60, and approximately 30 acres of land granted by the town in the 1st division, neck, meadow, and 2nd division.[30]
  • 1646 New Haven Book of Alienations: 2 persons, estate valued at £60, and about 50 acres some of which he purchased from other planters.[31]
  • There are several land transactions buying and selling land in the following years.[31]
  • 22 Feb 1670/1 an inventory of New Haven land was taken. Samuel had several parcels amounting to 47 acres, 102 acres of commonage, his homelot and 14 acres that he had from the town.[32]
  • 20 Dec 1680 Third land division Samuel had 3 heads, an estate of £363, and was granted 84 acres.[33] His third division land was not "land fit to be laid out" and he requested that it be changed.[34]

Before 14 Oct 1686. "Sarjt Whithead and Joseph Moss haveing lost their houseing and great part of their substance by fire, this Court remitt their country rates for this yeare." [35]

Marriages

  • Samuel's first wife was never named in the records but in the 1646/7, 1655/6, and 1661 meeting house seating, she had assigned seats.[36][37][38]
  • Samuel Whithead and Sarah Guilbert were married 9 may 1676.[39] Sarah brought two young sons into the household and had two more with her new husband. She was the widow of John Gilbert and the daughter of Thomas and Jane Gregson. She died in 1697.[40]

Death, Inventory

"Samll Whited Dyed Septr 1690"[39]

An inventory of his estate, taken 11 Nov 1690, totalled £370 13s with debts of £30 13s 1d.[41][42]

Children by second wife

  1. Samuel b. 9 June 1678, New Haven; d 5 Dec 1709 ae 33 stone at (NHT1) Grove Street Cemetery; m. Tabitha Holt (she m. (2) David Atwater.[40]
  2. Stephen b. 29 Jan 1680, New Haven; d 4 Mar 1706 New Haven; m. 11 Apr 1705 New Haven, Mary Alling.[40]

Sources

  1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) ($)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Records of the Town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703 (Cambridge, Mass., 1901) p. 11 & p. 15
  3. ↑ Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers, 1639, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 14 (Hartford 1912; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1989) p. 128, p. 309
  4. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p. 17
  5. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p. 76
  6. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p. 138
  7. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, pp 127, 180, 277, 313, 354, 402
  8. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v2, pp229, 310, 318
  9. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p. 495
  10. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, pp 303, 335, 346
  11. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, pp 228, 428, 485/6
  12. ↑ New Haven Town Records v1, p 518
  13. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, pp 86, 202, 285
  14. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, pp 177, 203, 385
  15. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, Cites New Haven Town Records Vol III p. 17
  16. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p. 382
  17. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, p. 145
  18. ↑ Trumbull, History of Hartford, vol 1, p. 202
  19. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, pp 157, 256, 274.
  20. ↑ Trumbull, History of Hartford, vol 2, p. 150
  21. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p 76
  22. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, p. 311
  23. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v2, p 107, 108
  24. ↑ Trumbull, History of Hartford, vol 2, pp 22, 23
  25. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, p. 311
  26. ↑ 10 March 1646/7, New Haven Colony Records v1, 302, 304
  27. ↑ 11 Feb 1655/6 New Haven Town Records v1, pp 270, 273
  28. ↑ 20 Jan 1661/2, New Haven Town Records v1, pp 511, 513
  29. ↑ 7 Feb 1667/8, men only, New Haven Town Records v1, p 220
  30. ↑ New Haven Colony Records v1, p.92
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Anderson, p. 353
  32. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, pp. 282/3
  33. ↑ New Haven Town Records v2, p. 409
  34. ↑ Anderson, p. 353 Citing Vol 3 of the New Haven town records pp 28, 34, 35
  35. ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. ''The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut May 1978-June 1689. (Hartford, Case & Lockwood, 1859) p. 215
  36. ↑ 10 March 1646/7, New Haven Colony Records v1, p 302, 304
  37. ↑ 11 Feb 1655/6, New Haven Town Records v1, pp 270, 273
  38. ↑ 20 Jan 1661/2, New Haven Town Records v1, pp 511, 513
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 Part I. Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917 death p. 69; whitehead/gilbert marriage p. 41
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 Jacobus: FANH p. 1970
  41. ↑ “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9JH-B : 12 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 294. New Haven Probate Record, 1668-1703, Vol. 2, Part 1, page 61.
  42. ↑ Anderson p. 355 citing New Haven Probate 2: 1: 61
  • Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 642,
  • Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 8, p 1970. "served Pequot War."
  • Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp. 675




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Ann Browning
Related maybe

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D858043

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Joel Whitehead
Hi folks, I am looking for a direct male descendant of Samuel Whitehead through one of his sons, Samuel or Stephen who were both born in the New Haven Colony. I am a descendant of Isaac Whitehead (about 1621 - 1690), also of the New Haven Colony, and I am trying to determine if there is a familial relationship between them. Donald Lines Jacobus in "Families of New Haven" does not show any such relationship. My goal is to have a direct male descendant of Samuel take a Y-DNA test to see if they have a common ancestor. My ultimate goal is to learn who the parents of Isaac Whitehead were.
posted on Whitehead-1072 (merged) by Joel Whitehead
Brad Stauf
Whitehead-1072 and Whitehead-865 appear to represent the same person because: Whitehead-1072 was gedcom import with no source, supposed father John had no source, no remotely close baptism found, merging away
posted by Brad Stauf

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