Samuel Thorpe (1644 - 1728)

Born 14 Jun 1644 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Husband of Mary (Benton) Thorpe — married 6 Dec 1666 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 2 Feb 1728 at age 83 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Clarification of Parentage

William Thorp, early immigrant (c. 1637) to New Haven, Connecticut had a first wife who is completely unknown. Neither her first nor last name appears in any primary records. Unfortunately due to a faulty genealogy by Sheldon Thorpe (refuted by Donald Lines Jacobus in his TAG 20:237 article} mistakenly called her "Elizabeth" based on a 1635 emigration from London to Island of Providence off the coast of Columbia of a different William Thorpe and wife Elizabeth Unknown. William of New Haven married Margaret Unknown, wife of Robert Pigg in October 1661 in New Haven and it is currently assumed that all his children were from his first, unknown wife who died before 1661 (but NOT on 9 Oct 1660 as asserted by Sheldon Thorpe, no such record has been found). She was also not Ursula Smith of Gloucestershire, England who married a different William Thorpe of Wanswell, there is no indication that this couple ever traveled to New England. Nor was she Elizabeth Rest of Leicestershire, England who married a different William Thorp in 1639 in England and of whom no further record has yet been found (remember that WIlliam of New Haven was there as a servant in 1637, he was there on 4 June 1639 to be named a freeman and was there in May 1640 when his son Nathaniel was baptized). See the linked profiles for full sourcing and analysis of records.

Biography

Sergeant Samuel Thorpe was born in 1644 and baptized 14 Jun 1646 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. His parents were William Thorpe and his wife Elizabeth.^[1]

Samuel died 2 Feb 1728 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.^[2]

Burial: Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Sources

1. ↑ Thorpe, Sheldon B., Esq,William Thorpe of New Haven, Connecticut, and some of his descendants, Volume 59, page 392
2. ↑ Thorpe, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Helen D. Love Scranton. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974), 7:1777. Samuel (Thorpe), bp 14 June 1646(church record, First Congregational Society, New Haven), d 2 Feb 1728 æ. 84 (gravestone, Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford); Sgt.

• Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Connecticut, Reference Vol. 11 (1978), Page 29 via American Ancestors.
• Smyth, R. D., Edward Benton of Guilford (Conn.) and His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1900) Vol. 54, Page 175.
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Samuel_Thorpe_%284%29

Birth

Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1, page 484, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1983 -Documentation of birth and death and parents

Marriage to Mary Benton, 1666

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 1, page 797-Genealogical Publishing Com, 1913 - Reference-Documentation of marriage to Mary Benton

"New England Marriages Prior to 1700", page 740-Documentation of birth and death dates/Documentation of marriage to Mary Benton

Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1, page 485, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1983 -Documentation of marriage to Mary Benton

Children

Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1, page 485, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1983 -Documentation of children, Elizabeth, Samuel, Hannah, Ebenezer, Naomi, and John

Death

findagrave.com-Documentation of birth, death, spouse, and children

• WikiTree profile Thorp-146 created through the import of Tree 22712.ged on May 10, 2012 by Pat Brooks. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Pat and others.