Samuel Gallup (1690 - bef. 1752)

Born 9 Oct 1690 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island

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Samuel was born in 1690 at Bristol in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (now part of Rhode Island), the son of Samuel Gallup and Elizabeth Southworth.

He his usually said to have died by 12 February 1752, when his son William made his will, leaving property to his sisters and naming his uncle Joshua Baily as executor. If Samuel were alive, wouldn't he have been the more natural choice, or at least worth a mention in the will?

On 7 October 1751, the Boston Evening Post ran the following account that seemingly involves Samuel and not his nephew Samuel, who at 21 years old would have been young to be styled "Captain":

• Thursday last arrived here from New London by land, Capt. Samuel Gallop, late Master of a Brigantine belonging to this Town, who gives the following melancholy Account, viz. That he sail'd from this Port for Antigua, the 29th of August last, and on the 6th of September, being to the Southward of Bermuda, met with a most violent Gale of Wind, by which is Vessel was overset, his Stern beat in by the Sea, and all his Hands, being seven in Number, wash'd overboard and drowned; but he being happily entangled in the Rigging, was preserved. He had nothing to eat or drink for some Days, but the Foremast at last going away, the Vessel righted, and some of the Cargo washing out, he happily got some Apples and Fish, on which he subsisted for eleven Days, and on the twelfth was taken off the Wreck by a Vessel from th West Indies bound to New London.

After such a trying experience, and not being a young man, it may not be surprising if he succumbed to illness and death within the following months.

Samuel married Mary _____ around 1716. Children:^[1]

• Mary b. 16 December 1716; m. John Bragg 15 July 1736
• Samuel b. 26 October 1718
• Nathaniel d. 4 October 1746
• William; d. 1752
• Annah; m. Nathaniel Dimon 18 October 1756
• Abigail bap. 13 Sept. 1741; m. Nathaniel Munro 13 November 1766; d. 1 January 1779

On 20 May 1720, Samuel Gallop of Bristol, cooper, and Mary his wife sold land at Bristol set off to Samuel in the division of his father's estate.^[2] On 21 July 1721, Samuel Gallup of Bristol, cooper, sold to Jabez Howland a lot of land at Bristol set off to him in the settlement of the estate of his father Capt. Samuel Gallup.^[3]

In January 1729/30, Samuel Gallup of New London, Connecticut, mariner sold to Jabez Howland land that had been laid out to Samuel when his brother Nathaniel's estate was divided, and also land that had been conveyed to Samuel from his brother William.^[4]

On 15 September 1741, Samuel Gallup of Bristol, mariner, sold his dwelling house and land at Bristol.^[5]

On 8 September 1744, Samuel Gallup of Bristol, mariner, conveyed land at Bristol in a mortgage agreement, through which he would receive the land back if he pays the principal plus interest.^[6]

On 1 Mary 1756, Mary Bragg, widow, and Anna Gallop, daughters of Samuel Gallop late of Bristol, decd., requested letter of administration on his estate. His daughter Abigail Gallop, a minor, also appeared and chose Joshua Baily as her guardian [and so must have been at least 14 to make the choice].^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Gallup, page 16
2. ↑ Bristol Co., Mass., deeds vol. 14 page 138
3. ↑ Bristol Co., Mass., deeds vol. 14 pages 267–8
4. ↑ Bristol Co., Mass., deeds vol. 19 page 150 and page 152 and page 257
5. ↑ Bristol Co., Mass., deeds vol. 30 pages 265–6
6. ↑ Bristol Co., Mass., deeds vol. 33 page 18
7. ↑ Bristol, R.I., "Book of Wills, Inventories, &c No. 1 1746–1759", page 499

• Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1891)

• Darwin C. Gallup, Gallup genealogy; Gallop, Galloup, Galloupe, Gallupe, Gallup Family Association 1966.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8M2-3Q2 : 10 February 2018), Samuel Gallup, 09 Oct 1690; citing Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 912,787.