Samuel Soper, eldest child of John and Mary Soper was born February 20, 1685, in Hull, Massachusetts. On October 28, 1708, in Boston, Massachusetts, Samuel married Mary Lyon, who was baptized May 23, 1685, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a daughter of Elhanan Lyon, and by her he had two sons:
Samuel Soper, Jr. born October 10, 1709, in Boston, christened November 1, 1709, died August 23, 1749, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, married Esther Littlefield, a daughter of Edmund LIttlefield and Bethia Waldo
Elhanan Soper, born October 3,1711, in Boston
Samuel Soper, Sr. died December 27, 1713, in the same year that his father died. [1]
Sources
↑ Old Hancock County families containing genealogies of families resident in Hancock County in 1933, whose ancestors of their surnames settled in the town in which they live in or before 1790, by William Macbeth Pierce, Hancock County Publishing Company, Ellsworth, Maine, 1933
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Samuel: