Samuel Howe (1727 - 1806)

Born 15 Jun 1727 in Framingham, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Dudley) Howe — married 12 Apr 1750 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1806 at age 78 in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

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Biography

Born in Framingham, Mass., 15 June 1727. He married at Sudbury, 12 April 1750, Abigail Dudley daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Rice) Dudley. He was one of the grantees of Westmoreland in 1752, and went there to live. He was a man of wealth for those days and was possessed of much landed estate so that he was able to give to each of his children a farm, besides his homestead, which was a beautiful estate overlooking the Connecticut River.

As a revolutionary soldier he was among the first to join the Continental troops then gathering at Medfortl. He was assigned to Capt. Jacob Hind's Co., Col. James Reed's Regt. (3rd N. H.) and was at the battle of Bunker Hill.

He died 9 April 1806, aged 79, his nuncupative will made 21 March 1806.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts", Vol. 1, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.46-47.}

• Find A Grave: Memorial #81109576 Pvt Samuel Howe
• Vital Records of Grafton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Mass., 1906) Page 73. Birth record.