Samuel Brigham (1652 - 1713)

Born 12 Jan 1652 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Howe) Brigham — married 1683 in Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 24 Jul 1713 at age 61 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts bay Colony

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Biography

Birth

Samuel Brigham was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 12 Jan 1652, the son of Thomas Brigham and Mercy (Unknown) Brigham.^[1]

Marriage

Samuel Brigham married Elizabeth How, at Marlborough, Massachusetts, in 1683; only the year appears in the published vital records, which cite the Middlesex County copy.^[2] Their first recorded child, Elizabeth, was born at Marlborough in either March or May 1685.^[3] In his will, made on 24 May 1694, Abraham How of Marlborough names his daughter Elizabeth as the wife of Samuel Brigham.^[4]

Death

Samuel Brigham died at Marlborough, Massachusetts, on 24 Jul 1713, as Capt. Samuel Brigham.^[5] He is buried at the Old Common Burying Ground in Marlborough; the date on his gravestone agrees with the date in the vital records, and the stone says he was in his 59th year.^[6]

Probate

Samuel Brigham died intestate. An inventory of his estate was filed on 24 Jul 1713, and totaled a substantial £1,263.8s.1d. Administration on his estate was granted to his widow, Elizabeth Brigham, and his oldest son, Samuel Brigham, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 16 Dec 1714.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W., compiler, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, 1914), 1:89, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Cambridge/Images/Cambridge_B089.shtml
2. ↑ Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, 1908), 232, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Marlborough/Images/Marlborough_M232.shtml
3. ↑ Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, 1908), 38, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Marlborough/Images/Marlborough_B038.shtml
4. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org), 11972:2, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14462/11972-co2/38293523
5. ↑ Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, 1908), 349, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Marlborough/Images/Marlborough_D349.shtml
6. ↑ Marlborough, Massachusetts, burial ground inscriptions: Old Common, Spring Hill, and Brigham cemeteries (Worcester, 1908), 25, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027053019;view=1up;seq=39; photo of gravestone at Find A Grave: Memorial #12078134
7. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org), 2691:2 for the inventory (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14460/2691-co2/0), 2691:10 for the administration (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14460/2691-co10/38186073)

See also:

• Samuel Brigham [Interview with Kristie Aldrup, Administrator of the Brigham List at Rootweb: The material presented here is from family and known unknown sources. There was a "professional" genealogical chart made previously. I do not know who made it or when. I have spent nearly 35 years trying to document the information presented to you this date. Enjoy... Update and or make your connections (NOTE: Spousal and non-direct lines will be posted at a later date... I have still "bring my research for the last three years up to date") (Ed: editorial-kka)] was born 12 Jan 1652 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, son of Thomas Brigham and Mercy Hurd. Samuel passed away in 1713.
• Howe Genealogies by Daniel Wait Howe, Page 281 & 285
• Vital Records of Marlborough, MA to 1849, Page 267