Samuel Terry (1690 - abt. 1762)

Born 26 Mar 1690 in Enfield, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Coffin) Terry — married 25 Oct 1719 in Mendon, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1762 at about age 71 in Dutchess, New York [uncertain]

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Biography

Samuel Terry, son of Captain Samuel and Hannah (Morgan) Terry, was born 26 Mar 1690. He received degrees from Harvard in 1710 and 1713. In 1718, he became a minister in Barrington, which was then in Massachusetts but later became part of Rhode Island. He succeeded John Wilson in that position, and in 1719, he also married Wilson's widow, the former Margaret Coffin. In 1726, the family moved to Worcester County, where he obtained some land in Mendon, served in 1729 as clerk of Uxbridge and in 1731 as clerk of Mendon. He also kept a grammer school in 1733 and owned a sawmill. In 1734, he became an active proprietor of Union, Connecticut, where he was clerk of Union as late as 1739. He later removed to Dutchess County, New York, where he died, by one account, in 1762, by another, during the Revolution.^[1]

In Dutchess County, Samuel Terry settled on a leased farm south of Pawling village as early as May 1736.^[2] The "earliest resident pastor" in the land grant area known as "the Beekman Patent,"^[3] he served as minister there from 1739 to 1743.^[4] He claimed that he was not properly paid under this contract and filed a lawsuit seeking compensation.^[5] He had a meeting house on the property^[6] and later operated a sawmill there.^[7]

Children of Samuel and Margaret Terry:

Mary Terry, born about 1728, married Joseph Ogden.^[8]

Josiah Terry, born 10 Dec 1730, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts^[1][9]

Peter Terry, born 20 Dec 1732, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts^[1][10]

Samuel Terry was said to have had many descendants who settled in Putnam County, New York.^[11]

Research Notes

Ulster County, New York, has record of probate administration for a Samuel Terry in February, 1762. Ancestry.com image of record. While it is by no means certain, it seems reasonable to conclude that this probably is the Samuel Terry covered in this profile. Multiple sources cited in this profile say that he moved to New York State later in his life, and two specifically say that he moved to Dutchess County, across the Hudson River from Ulster County, so it is not improbable that he may have been in Ulster County at the end of his life.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Colonial Collegians, 1642-1774: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Samuel Terry, pp. 1940-1941.
2. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 7, p. 250.
3. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 1, p. 91.
4. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 1, p. 28. Vol. 1, p. 92.
5. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 1, pp. 91-92. Vol. 3, p. 164.
6. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 8, p. 378.
7. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 1, p. 126.
8. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 4, p. 676.
9. ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch.
10. ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch.
11. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. Vol. 1, p. 92.

• Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990–2003). Author's website
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZQD-MPJ : 10 February 2018), Samuel Terrey, 26 Mar 1690; citing ENFIELD,HAMPSHIRE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0014766 IT 1.
• Barney Genealogical Record. Nantucket Historical Association Research Library. Person ID I11745.
• Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. Ancestry and descendants of Rev. John Wilson of Boston, Mass. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907. Page 12.
• Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, Or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Hartford: F.A. Brown, 1856. Page 221. This source states that Samuel went to New York State.
• Macy, Silvanus Jenkins. Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1870. Page 5. Rev. Samuel Terry, of Barrington, Ms., listed as a husband of Margaret Coffin.
• Terry, Stephen. Notes of Terry Families, in the United States of America. Hartford, Conn.: Terry, 1887. Page 9. This source notes that Samuel was named in his father's 1730 will.
• Coffin, Louis, ed. The Coffin Family. (Published by Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Mass., 1962). Page 121