Samuel Curtis (1649 - 1721)

Born 26 Apr 1649 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, New England

Husband of Sarah (Alexander) Curtis — married 6 Jul 1678 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England

Descendants

Died 23 Jun 1721 at age 72 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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Biography

Birth

Samuel Curtis was born April 26, 1649 at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, son of Henry and Elizabeth.^[1][2][3]

Marriage

He married Sarah Alexander, July 6, 1678, in Northampton, Massachusetts^[4][5]

Death

Samuel died June 23, 1721, in Northampton, Massachusetts.^[4][6]

Will

Samuel wrote his will at Northampton on 4 April 1712. He named his wife Sarah and children Samuel, Henry, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Abel, Sarah Phelps, and Abigail Curtis. Sons Samuel and Nathaniel were named executors, and the will was proved 5 Sept 1721.^[7]

Children

Born in Northampton

• Samuel named in his father's will
• Nathaniel - Mar 29, 1682/3.^[4]
• Jonathan Curtice -Jan 11, 1684/5^[4]
• Hinry [sic] Curtice - Dec 19, 1690 [no mother listed]^[4]
• Elizabeth - Sept 5, 1693^[4]
• Abel named in Samuel's will
• Sarah m. Phelps named in Samuel's will
• Abigail Curtis named in Samuel's will

Sources

1. ↑ Record of Marriages and Births, Records of Windsor, Ct. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register. 5:66. Boston: NEHGS, 1851.
2. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
3. ↑ Windsor CT Vital Records. Family search file 1316427 image 28. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BT-8ZL7?cat=471242
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Northampton. (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).
5. ↑ Northampton vital records. Family search file 186165 image 62. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-WBX2?i=61&cc=2061550&cat=117064
6. ↑ Northampton deaths . Family search. File 186165. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-WB6S?i=15&cc=2061550&cat=117043
7. ↑ Massachusetts Probate Court( Hampshire).Family search file # 879184, book 4, pls. 48-49, image 533. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YY-FSN6-Q?i=532&cat=275711

• Phelps, Noah Amherst. History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton, from 1642 to 1845 (Case, Tiffany and Burnham, Hartford, 1845) Page 169.
• Curtiss, Frederic Haines. A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family (Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, 1903) Page xxvi.
• Shepard, T. Watson. Register of The Deaths in Northampton, Massachusetts, From The First Settlement of The Town in 1653 to August 1824 (T. Watson Shepard, 1824) Page 15. d. 23 Jul 1721.