Samuel Runnels, son of Ebenezer Runels and Hannah Smith, was born in Haverhill, NH on 15 Mar 1767, married Abigail Smith on 20 Sep 1791 in Hollis NH, and died in Hollis on 5 Jun 1834.[1]
Sources
↑ Ezra Scollay Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker. "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of ..." (Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), page 775:
(III) Samuel (2), first child of Ebenezer and Hannah (Smith) Runnells, was born in Haverhill, Marcli 15, 1767, and died in Hollis, New Hampshire, June 5, 1834. He inherited from his father a farm in Hollis, New Hampshire, where he afterward resided; also, the mill site on the Nashua river where he built saw, grist and carding mills, known as Runnells' Mills near the bridge called Runnells' Bridge. He married, in Hollis, September 20. 1791, Abigail Smith, who was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire, January 29, 1768, and died in Hollis, December 30. 1848, aged eighty-one. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Smith, a Revolutionary soldier, and her paternal ancestry was the same as that of Hannah Smith, her husband's mother. Her .mother was Lydia Page, a descendant of John. The children born to Samuel and Abigail were: Frederick, born June 28, 1702; Ebenezer, July 8, 1704; Hannah. July 27, 1706, died March 18, 1836; Persis, born August 29, 1798; Bethia. December 1, 1800; Susan, January 29, 1803; Samuel, June 22. 1805, died July 27, 1806.
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