Samuel Nott (1754 - 1852)

Born 23 Jan 1754 in Saybrook, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 26 May 1852 at age 98 in Franklin, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Samuel Nott was a son of Stephen Nott and Deborah (Selden) Nott, born at Saybrook, Connecticut, on 23 January 1754.^[1]

Samuel Nott graduated from Yale College in 1780.^[2] In 1782, not long after his graduation, he became minister of the Congregational church at Franklin, Connecticut (then still a part of Norwich; Franklin was established in 1786). He served this church until his death.^[3]

On May 11, 1809, he preached the election sermon at the opening of the annual session of the Connecticut state legislature.^[4] His title was "Prayer, eminently the duty of rulers."^[5]

His wife was Lucretia Taylor^[6]. Children of Rev. Samuel Nott and his wife Lucretia were:

1. Suky, born 2 December 1782.^[7]
2. Diodat(e), born 6 November 1784,^[8] died 7 July 1817, ae. 32.^[9]
3. Sally, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 25 July 1786.^[10]
4. Samuel, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 11 September 1788.^[10]
5. Lucretia, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 16 September 1790,^[10] died 31 January 1829, ae. 38.^[9]
6. Deborah, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 14 October 1792,^[10] died 14 August 1829, ae. 36.^[9]
7. Stephen, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 1 February 1796, died 20 June 1796.^[10][9]
8. Eliza, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 21 August 1797.^[10]
9. Stephen, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 4 February 1800, died 5 February 1800.^[10][9]
10. Rev. Stephen Tertius, born at Franklin, Connecticut, 20 June 1802, died 23 July 1828.^[10][9]

Lucretia Nott died 22 September 1834, ae. 76.^[9]

Rev. Samuel Nott, D.D., died at Franklin, Connecticut, on 26 May 1852 at the age of 98 years, 4 months, and 3 days.^[10]His death was reported in the New London newspaper as follows:^[11]

DEATH OF SAMUEL NOTT.

This venerable clergyman died at the parsonage house in Franklin on Wednesday afternoon, in the 99th year of his age. About a week before his decease, his gown caught fire while sitting in his room alone, and before he had put it out his hand was badly burned. The injury and the excitement consequent upon it were too much, and lingering several days, the aged saint sank under it.

Dr. Nott had been settled into the parish more than seventy years, and was, we believe, the oldest clergymen in Connecticut - and we doubt not, the oldest pastor in New England, if not in the country.

He is buried in Plains Cemetery, Franklin, Connecticut. The inscription on his memorial stone reads:^[12]

SACRED

to the memory of

REV. SAMUEL NOTT D.D.

For more than Seventy years

Pastor of the Congregational

Church, Franklin.

He died May 26, 1852,

aged 98 years & 4 mo's.

As the head of a family, an instructor

of Youth, and a Christian Minister,

eminently faithful and active: an exam

ple of the christian graces through life,

and still bearing fruit even to extreme

old age: beloved and revered by successive

generations, his memory remains to bless

those who live after him.

"Being dead he yet speaketh."

Sources

1. ↑ Walworth, Reuben Hyde. Hyde Genealogy, or The descendants, in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde, of Norwich (J. Munsell, Albany, 1864). Vol. 1, page 415.
2. ↑ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1912). page 230. Citing: Colonial Records of Connecticut, ix, page 566; Field, Statistics of Middlesex County; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 7, pages 75-76; and Van Santvoort and Lewis, Memoirs of Eliphalet Nott, pages 11-13.
3. ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 24 (1870), page 42.
4. ↑ "Statistics of the Connecticut Election Sermons," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 46, page 126.
5. ↑ Vail, R. W. G. "A Checklist of New England Election Sermons." Proceedings, American Antiquarian Society, October 1936, page 242.
6. ↑ The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume 7 1853 pg. 76 Footnote, continued from pg 75
7. ↑ Vital Records of Norwich, Connecticut, Vol. 1, page 483: Suky, the Daughter of the Revd Samuel Nott & of Lucretia his wife, Was Born Decemr, 2nd AD 1782.
8. ↑ Vital Records of Norwich, Connecticut, Vol. 1, page 483: Diodat, the Son of the Revd Samuel Nott & of Lucretia his wife was Born November 6th 1784.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6} Barbour, Lucius Barnes. "Genealogical Data From Connecticut Cemeteries (Franklin Plains Cemetery, Franklin, Connecticut)", New England Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. 86 (1932), page 383.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8} Barbour Collection of Vital Records, Franklin, page 58.
11. ↑ Find-A-Grave, Memorial #28895549, Rev Samuel Nott. Citing Daily Commercial Register, Sandusky, Ohio, June 21, 1852 pg 2, which cited New London Chronicle, May 28th, 1852. A very similar account appeared in New England Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. 6 (1852), page 308.
12. ↑ Find-A-Grave, Memorial #28895549, Rev Samuel Nott.

• The Spalding Memorial also known as A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding, of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay, and his Descendants; With a Record of Their Military Service in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars; together with Information Concerning Various Other Branches of the Spalding Family. Revised and Enlarged from the Original Publication of Rev. S. J. Spalding. by Charles Warren Spalding, A.M.; Chicago, Illinois, 1897.
• Longevity, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1849) Vol. 3, Page 152.