Samuel Langdon II (1723 - 1797)

Born 12 Jan 1723 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 29 Nov 1797 at age 74 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Rev. Samuel Langdon was born in 1723. He died in 1797 at the age of 75.

Spouse: Elizabeth Whipple (Brown) Langdon 1726 - 1802. They were married 10/25/1746 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Findagrave # 22846904

Graduate of Harvard in 1740.

He was ordained Pastor of the 1st or North Church of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1747 and was dismissed to the Presidency of Harvard College in 1774. His place at Portsmouth was filled by Dr. Stiles in 1777 - 1778. After his resignation of the Presidency, he was installed at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire in 1781 where he died in office in 1797.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Aberdeen in 1762.

Probate

In his will written 26 October 1797 (probate 14 December 1797), Samuel Langdon of Hampton Falls bequeathed to beloved wife Elizabeth all the personal estate including notes, bonds, stock, and household items to be entirely at her disposal. Son Paul Langdon, in addition to the expenses of his education and settlement in the world, received the land and buildings in Fryeburg and likewise lots number 2 and 4 in Chatham. Paul also receives three hundred dollars. Son Richard has received a gift of the house by deed and adjoining property in Portsmouth. Richard further receives the right of land in New Durham. Granddaughter Elizabeth Langdon the only child of eldest son Samuel Langdon “whom it pleased God to take from me in the prime of his life” receives all his remaining lands in Rochester including 140 acres in lot number 58 and seventy acres in lot number 13. Elizabeth also receives four hundred dollars. Elizabeth receives any residue of the personal estate after the decease of her grandmother. The remainder of the estate is to be divided equally among son Richard Langdon and daughters Mrs. Sewall and Mrs. Goddard. Son Richard and son-in-law David Sewall were named executors.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ New Hampshire Probate, Rockingham County, Volume 32, pp 405-407

• "A History of the Langdon Family with Special Reference to the Forebears and Descendents of Samuel Langdon, 1722--1797" compiled by Mabel Goolthrite Langdon and distributed to family members in December, 1951.

• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 523-8

• Samuel is buried at the Old Westview Cemetery in Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA. His page lists and has links to his spouse, 1 child. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7376792/samuel-langdon

• Capt. Samuel Langdon: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LD1X-85W Note: Lists 15 children with names, dates, spouses. Lists different parents. Ancestry.com lists the parents this record has.

• Shalev, Eran. “‘The United Tribes, or States of Israel’: The Hebrew Republic as a Political Model before the Civil War.” In American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War, 50–83. Yale University Press, 2013. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32bmxz.6. (See page 59).