Samuel Lunt (1747 - 1818)

Born 19 Aug 1747 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 13 Sep 1818 at age 71 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Married Abigail Stevens who was daughter of Benjamin Stevens and Abigail Fellows. Benjamin is #63 in Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley family. Abigail (daughter) is #304 (married Samuel Lunt).

One son was Benjamin Stevens Lunt

Sources

• Lunt, Thomas SimpsonLunt: A History of the Lunt Family in America (Salem, Massachusetts, 1914)

• Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts And Maine Families In The Ancestry Of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1996), Vol II Gardner-Moses: Lunt of Newbury (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

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13. Daniel5 Lunt (Daniel4, Henry³, Daniel², Henry¹) was born in Newbury on June 1, 1723. He married on September 25, 1746, Margery Greenleaf. He bought a small house lot in Newbury on July 31, 1749, from Benjamin Rogers, paying 300 pounds Old Tenor and sold it, then being a brazier of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on May 10, 1756, for 300 lbs New Tenor [Essex Deeds, 93:112l 105: 158]. Of his ten children the last six were baptized in the North Church in Portsmouth [New Hampshire Genealogical Recorded, volumes 5 and 6, by index.].

Children:

i. Samuel, b. in Newbury as were the next three, Aug. 19, 1747

ii. Elizabeth, b. April 19, 1749

iii. Margery, b. Aril 5, 1751.

iv. Mary, b. July 27, 1753.

v. Robert, bapt. Jan. 22, 1758, in Portsmouth.

vi. Sarah, b. at Portsmouth March 8, 1759 (Newbury records), bapt. March 9, 1760 (sic).

vii. Daniel, b. at Portsmouth Aug. 9, 1763 (Newbury records), bapt. Aug. 14, 1763

viii. Henry, b. Aug. 5, 1765 (Newbury records), bapt. Aug. 11, 1765.

ix.Thomas, bapt. Aug. 7, 1768

x. Stephen Greenleaf, bapt. April 21, 1771.

• Entry, Massachusetts Town Clerk, Records, Essex, Newbury; "Samuel Lunt Ye Son of Daniel Lunt[ & Margery his wife was born August 19 [1747]"