Samuel Dodd I (1657 - 1714)

Born 2 May 1657 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Freeman) Dodd — married 1694 in New Jersey

Descendants

Died 18 May 1714 at age 57 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey

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Biography

Samuel (Dodd) Dod was born on 2 May 1657 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, son of Daniel Dod I (1615 - ~1665) and Mary (Wheeler) Dodd (<1615 - ~1657).^[1]

He was left motherless at just 3 weeks old and fatherless at age 9. He arrived at Newark with his older siblings by 1667.

His siblings were:

1. Mary (Dodd) Blatchley (~1647 - 1686)
2. Daniel Dod II (>1649 - 1710)
3. Hannah (Dodd) Fowler (1653 - ~1702)
4. Stephen Dod I (1655 - 1691)
5. Jonathan
6. Martha
7. Susannah
8. Hannah

Samuel married Martha Freeman (1670 - ~1703) in 1694 in New Jersey. Their children were:

1. Samuel Dodd (1695 - ~1773)
2. Mary (Dodd) Cundict (1698 - 1755)
3. Rebecca (Dodd) Hedden (~1703 - 1745).

On 13 Feb 1678-9, Samuel was admitted as a Planter and he was assigned a lot near his brother Daniel at the northwest end of town. He received 25 acres on Watsesson, now Bloomfield.

Samuel died on 18 May 1714 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey aged 57.

At the time of Samuel's death, all of his children were minors. His will is the oldest Dod will on record in the state of New Jersey. It is dated 3 Feb 1712-3 and was proved 1714.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74N-GYT : 7 January 2020), Samuell Dod, 1657.

• FamilySearch Person: LHQJ-9DS
• Pg 182-3 Dodd, Bethuel L., Burnett, John R. Genealogies of The Male Descendants of Daniel Dod, of Branford, Conn., A Native of England 1646 to 1863; Newark, N.J.: 1864
• Dodd, Allison and Folsom, Rev. Joseph Fulford (1940). Genealogy and History of the Daniel Dod Family in America 1646 - 1940, 3, 6-7. The Independent Press, Bloomfield, NJ. (#5)
• https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory00dodd/page/6/mode/2up?token=0ec01097aa464ea69933683f10ff183a
• Conley, Avlyn Dodd (1997). 1997 Supplement to Genealogy and History of the Daniel Dod Family in America, 194, 3, 5-7. Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD. (#5)