Samuel Pelton, son of John Pelton was born in late 1645 or early 1646 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was christened on 25 Jan 1646.[1]
He was married on May 16, 1673, by Mr. Stroughton to Mary Smith daughter of John Smith, Quartermaster, of Dorchester, a mariner. He lived in Dorchester down to about 1687 when, as appears by Bristol, R. I. (then Mass.), records, he lived there on the Mount Hope farm. After the birth of three or more children, he went to Seekonk, Massachusetts.[2]
The Church Records of Dorchester show Mary Smith, in a record: “Samuel Pelton’s wife, owned the covenant,” Oct. 22, 1682.[2]
Samuel's name appears; in the land records of Suffolk county (Boston), Massachusetts, in a deed of 1699, as "of Bristol, New England," and in a deed of 1713 as "of Seekonk, New England", and then disappears from those records, and is replaced by that of his son "Samuel and Sarah his wife," of Nassau (Long Island), in the Province of New York, in a deed dated May 24, 1714.[2]
The 1713 deed is curious as Samuel appears to have died 16 March 1712 in Seekong. He is buried there at Seekonk Cemetery, Seekonk and has a memorial. It lists just birth and death information and has a link to his wife's.[3] Mary had died ten years earlier, in 1703. She is buried in Centerville[2][4]
Children of Samuel and Mary Smith
Samuel, born Jan. 26, 1675,Dorchester, Massachusetts, married Sarah ; date unknown; d. date unknown.[2]
Mary, born May 29, 1678 Dorchester, Massachusetts; married, (Dedham Records), Dec. 12—-24, 1712, Nathaniel Colburn. He seems to have removed soon after from the town and nothing is known of their fate.[2]
Deliverance, born July 31, 168o Dorchester, Massachusetts; nothing further known.[2]
John, b. Jan. 9, 1682; m. about 1705, Jemima — ; d. July 15, 1735.[2]
Ithamar, b. (probably May), 1686, Dorchester, Massachusetts; m.unknown; d. previous to Apr. 25, 1749.[2]
Henry, b. Bristol, R. I., Dec. 10, 1690; married Apr. 29, 1712, Mary Rose; died 1763.[2]
Sarah, born Mar. 23, 1693, Bristol, R. I.,“Thursday, 10 o’clock, A. M.” no other record.[2]
Benjamin, born Bristol, Sept. 3, 1698; m. Keziah ; d. Hopewell, N. J., 1775; wife in 1780.[2]
NOTE.— Bristol Church Records give Robert “a youth,” baptized Apr. 30, 1687, and Susannah, Sept. 6,1702. These were evidently children of his brother John.[2]
↑ 2.002.012.022.032.042.052.062.072.082.092.102.112.12 J. M. Pelton. Genealogy of the Pelton family in America : being a record of the descendants of John Pelton who settled in Boston, Mass., about 1630-1632, and died in Dorchester, Mass., January 23rd, 1681. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892. p. 29-34. Available at Ancestry.com. and at Archive .org. Genealogy of the Pelton Family
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A book on the Pelton family in america was published in 1892. The author was J. M. Pelton. A copy of this book is in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, public library. A second book was published in 1992. The name of that book is "Pelton Family in America - 375 Years of Genealogy." That book was authored by Charles Leonard Pelton and Lois Meyers-Pelton. Posted by Lee Erwin Pelton, August 8, 2021
There is a genealogy book written by a family member late in the nineteenth century. Genealogy of the Pelton Family in America by James Pelton (1878) www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofpelto00/genealogyofpelt00pelt_djvu.txt
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