Samuel Wilbore (1692 - 1752)

Born 7 Nov 1692 in Little Compton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Carr) Wilbore — married 24 Dec 1713 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1752 at age 59 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

Samuel was born in 1692. He was the son of Samuel Wilbore and Mary Potter. He passed away in 1752.

Marriage

Samuel and Elizabeth were married at Little Compton, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, now Newport County, Rhode Island, on December 24, 1713, by Richard Billings, Justice.^[1].

Children

Children of Samuel and Elizabeth born Little Compton:^[2]

1. Robert Wilbor, 14 Jan 1715
2. Thomas Wilbor, 14 Sep 1716
3. Susanna Wilbor, 10 Jun 1718
4. Mary Wilbor, 14 Mar 1720
5. Abishai Wilbor, 22 Nov 1722
6. Elizabeth Wilbor, 23 Jul 1723
7. Martha Wilbor, 11 Mar 1725
8. Ruth Wilbor, 20 Nov 1726
9. Esek Wilbor, 22 Dec 1728
10. Samuel Wilbor, 10 Oct 1730
11. Susanna Wilbor, 29 May 1732 or Joanna Wilbore^[3]
12. Ebenezer Wilbor, 3 Sep 1735
13. David WIlbor, 31 Jul 1740

Will

His last Will is dated 27 February 1749/1750, and recorded there on 7 April 1752.^[4]

Research Notes

The Mayflower and its 99 passengers landed at Plymouth on 21 November 1620. The Fortune arrived in November 1621. During the next 65 years all the portion of southeastern Massachusetts and western Rhode Island was known as Plymouth County, 1621-1686.

January 13, 1629 - The Charter of Plymouth Colony was granted and included the area in which Little Compton is located.1659 to 1662 the lands in Little Compton were “purchased” from the Seaconet tribe of Indians

22 July 1673 - 29 men proved their shares in the grant of land at Seaconet; these 29 were the original proprietors of Little Compton. Of the original 29, who all lived in or near Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, “probably not five of their number had ever seen their goodly lands by the sea”.

1674 - First white settlement in the wilderness, which eventually became the Town of Little Compton.

In 1685/1686, when the division was made of Plymouth Colony, Bristol County had the towns of Taunton, Rehoboth, Dartmouth, Swansea, Bristol, Tiverton, Little Compton, Freetown and the plantations of Cumberland Gore and Attleboro. Little Compton’s name and land area was unchanged. The colonial charters of Plymouth, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut and New Hampshire were nullified by England and these 5 colonies were reorganized as a single government known as the Dominion of New England.

In 1746-1747, two towns, Little Compton and Tiverton, were acquired from Province of Massachusetts Bay, Colony of Great Britain and annexed to Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

By 1747, Little Compton secured its own royal decree and was annexed to Newport County as a part of Rhode Island along with Tiverton and Bristol. Because Little Compton was once part of the Plymouth colony, all probate and land records prior to 1746 can be found in Taunton and New Bedford.

Sources

1. ↑ VITAL RECORDS OF RHODE ISLAND,1636 - 1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths, A Family Register for the People, by James N. Arnold, Editor of the Narragansett Historical Register, “Is My Name Written in the Book of Life?” Volume 4. NEWPORT COUNTY; Little Compton, Part 1, Page 67; WILBOR, Samuel, and Elizabeth Carr; married by Richard Billings, Justice, December 24, 1713. Published under the Auspices of the General Assembly, Providence, Rhode Island; Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1893. Printed by the Providence Journal Company, Providence, Rhode Island. The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text https://archive.org/details/cu31924098819976/page/n473/mode/2up
2. ↑ Vital Records of Rhode Island: 1636-1850 by James N Arnold, 1891, Vol 4 Children of Lamuel [Samuel] and Elizabeth https://archive.org/details/cu31924098819976/page/184/mode/2up
3. ↑ Little Compton Families, Vol. 2; https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/27874/?offset=1#page=90&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
4. ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649137_00071). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], image 71-73, Newport, Little Compton, Book 1, page 124-127. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

• VITAL RECORDS OF RHODE ISLAND,1636 - 1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths, A Family Register for the People, by James N. Arnold, Editor of the Narragansett Historical Register, “Is My Name Written in the Book of Life?” Volume 4. NEWPORT COUNTY; Little Compton, Part 1, Page 67; WILBOR, Samuel, and Elizabeth Carr; married by Richard Billings, Justice, December 24, 1713. Published under the Auspices of the General Assembly, Providence, Rhode Island; Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1893. Printed by the Providence Journal Company, Providence, Rhode Island. The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text.

• RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: They Came To Milton; ID:I13927

• Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin; Little Compton Families, Volume I and Volume II. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 2003.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #142843182

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, Utah: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

Acknowledgments

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