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Samuel York (abt. 1644 - 1718)

Samuel York
Born about in Durham, New Hampshiremap [uncertain]
Husband of — married before 1676 in North Yarmouth, Mainemap
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Died at about age 74 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

Samuel York (1645-1718) married Hannah _______ by 1678 at North Yarmouth, Maine.[1]

Samuel lived in Topsham, Cape Porpoise and Falmouth, Maine. He was driven by the Indians to Gloucester. He and his wife had ten children.[2]

The first Samuel York was seen in Gloucester was in 1695 at the birth of his son, John, by wife Hannah. John died in 1699 as did another son, Thomas. [3]

Samuel York died March 17, 1718, at age 73 at Gloucester. A Mrs. York died November 28, 1724, at age 70 at Gloucester as well.[2] Samuel mentioned in his will sons Samuel, Benjamin and Richard, as well as three married daughters.[3]

Will

Last Will and Testament of Samuel York of Ipswich Item: I Give to my Grandaughter Eliz Haradson [sic] five pounds to be paiyd to her out of my estate.

Item: It is my mind & will if what personal or moveable estate I either [.....] stock or homestead goods yet shall be left att [sic] my decease & a Debt of fifty three pounds w/tch my Son Richard York owes & to me to go Then with any other Debt or debts yet shall be owing to me shall be Then with ye discharging any Debt or Debts yet may be owing from me payment of yee Several legacies given in this my will excepting what parts of moveable Estate my wifes to have as before. [proped & what said moveables Estate or Debts shall follow [....] shall my Son Richard York or his heirs to make it up & pay it out of my estate given to him or Thomas.

Item: I so nominate & ordaine [sic] constitute & appoint my three Sons Saml York, Benj/a York & Richard York to bee Sole Executives of this my last will & Testament and in Wittness [sic] thereof I have ....Sett[sic] my hand & Seale this fifteenth Day of March Anno Domini.. Seventeen Hundr/d & Seventeen Eighteen. 1717.18.

Signed ....publish/d & Declar/d in Presence of Sam [....] , Joseph Yorke, Sam/l Parrish. Essex p. Ipswich March 27:1718 Before Hon/ble John Appleton Esq/r. Judge of Probate of W[are?]... of and in said County . Joseph York & Sam/l Parrish Personally appeared & made Oath that they were present & Saw Sam/l Yorke ....Late of Gloster[sic] Dec/d Sign & Seale & heard him publish & Declare thee above written Instrument to bee his Last Will & Testament & when He so did he was in good understanding & Dispossing Mind ...& they together with John Newman Esq/r. Sett there hands as Wittnesses in his Presence. Sworne /Attest Dan/l Rogers Reg/r Upon Which this will I prove approve & allow the accomplished said Trust & gave bond to Pay Debts and Legacies. Attest Dan Rogers Reg/r

Research Notes

Found the following: The Essex Antiquarian - Qrt. Mag. devoted to Bio, Gen, History and Antiquities of Essex County Mass. - 1900s These children Samuel and 2nd. wife, Mary Potter  ??? Here Lyes Ye body of Mr. Samuel Yorke who died March Ye 17th 1717-1718 & in Ye 73 Year of his age. - Gloucester Inscriptions - Ancient Burying Ground -situated near R.R. station. Is this Samuel m. Hannah ?? [4]

4-Samuel(3), bot in partnership with James Thomas from the Ind. Jeromkin, Daniel and Robin, a tract of ±600 a. at Topsham 20 June 1670, and liv. there until Philip's war when he went to Cape Porpus. Sold out there (1/2 a saw-mill to John Batson and land to Isaac Cole) 1682-1684, having obtained a gr. and built a ho. at Mussel Cove (Falmouth Foreside) bef. 1680. By 1686 he had built a garrison on 100 a. at No. Yarmouth, for which he pet. for title in 1688. Lists 191, 214, 259. War drove him to Gloucester where he d. 17 Mar. 1717-8, ag. ±73. His wid. Hannah (m. bef. June 1676) d. 28 Nov. 1724. His will, 15-27 Mar. 1717-8, lists ch: Samuel, Ipswich, 54 in 1731 when he depos. ab. Falmouth bef. 1690, 81 in 1759 when he test, ab. the attack on the Bracketts in 1689. Taken prisoner at the fall of Casco Fort in 1690 he rem. in Canada until July 1700, having for 2 yrs. cut masts for the French navy (List 99, pp. 74, 208). He m. 1st 21 Feb. 1705-6 Mary Dutch who d. 16 Apr. 1709; m. 2d int. 27 Oct. 1711 Mary Potter; d. June 1767. His fa. had entered an East. Cl. for the Topsham land in 1715, and he obtained a gr. of 300 a. in 1721 in satisfaction thereof. He had brot ejectment suits ag. new settlers in 1720. 1 + 10 ch. Benjamin, 79 in 1759 when he depos. with br. Samuel, m. at Ips. 7 Dec. 1704 Mary Giddings; a miller at Cape Elizabeth (Knightville) by 1719-20. 8 ch. Richard, Ips., m. 17 Jan. 1710-1 Patience Hatch who m. 2d 15 Mar. 1719-20 George Harvey; d. 2 May 1718, ag. ±29. 4 ch. Hannah, m. 31 Oct. 1693 Edward Harraden. Elizabeth, m. Samuel Griffin. They q.c. to s. Samuel jr. in 1754 (Y. D. 30: 258). Sarah, m. Abraham Robinson. Rachel, m (int. -Sarah-) Josiah Lane (5). John, b. Glouces. 13 Apr. 1695, d. 8 Dec. 1699. Thomas, d. 30 July 1699.

1670 on 20 Jun 1670 in Pejepscot, ME bought in partnership with James Thomas from Inds. Jeromkin, Daniel.

Per Noyes, Libby, Davis:"Geneological Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, p.775.":" bot in partnership with James Thomas from the Ind. Jeromkin, Daniel and Robin, a tract of +/- a. at Topsham 20 June 1670, and liv there until Philip's war when he went to Cape Porpus. Sold out there(1/2 a saw-mill to John Batson and land to Isaac Cole) 1682-1684, having obtaine a gr. and built a ho. at Mussel Cove (Falmouth Forside) before 1680. By 1686 he had built a garrison on 100 a. at No. Yarmouth, for which he pet. for title in 1688. Lists 191, 214, 259. War drove him to Gloucester where he d. 17 Mar. 1717-8, ag. +/-73. His wid. Hannah(m. bef. June 1676) d. 28 Nov. 1724. His will, 15-27 Mar. 1717-8 List ch:

page 28 Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire 259 Cape Porpus Town Records, as now preserved at Kennebunkport, are a copy certified by Secretary Willard, before the fire in the Boston Court House 9 Dec. 1747, and subject to clerical misreadings. Bradbury (Hist. of Kennebunkport, p. 61) named 27 men as only names found on what remains of the old Cape Porpus records. These names are all to be found in the ten pages now extant, and as revised by Harold Clarke Durrell are: John Barrett Sr. Humphrey Scammon John Batson John Sanders William Frost Joseph Littlefield Edmund Littlefield John Miller John Miller Jr. William Thomas William Barton Richard Randall Thomas Mussey Samuel York John Downing John Davis Immanuel Haynes Jacob Wormwood Nicholas Moorey John Rennals John Loring Richard Blanchet Simon Cundey [Bussey ****] Emanuel Davis John Purinton Sr. Lieut. John Purinton Jr. Isaac Cole


Re: Fire records in Topsham and Brunswick area: " Only accounts of such awareness before the present century are of the burning of the houses of Gyles, Thomas, and York by the Indians." p. 267. [note in History of Bowdoinham p.11, Thomas Gyles in 1669 located on what became the George Sampson Estate in Bowdoinham, at the border of Topsham and Bowdoinham. [quoted book available at Portland Landmarks on State Street.]

1680 His son, Benjamin born in Falmouth Forside, ME in 1680. 1686 Place: By 1686 he built garrison on 100 a. at North Yarmouth. During King Philip's war he went to Cape Porpus, ME. 1690 Place: Captured at the fall of Fort Loyal, in now Portland, Maine. 1695 Place: Sam York of Casco remains in the hands of the French in Canada October 1695 Falmouth Forsides at York Ledge and York Landing. His son, Benjamin was born in Falmouth Forside in 1680. The family moved to Gloucester during the war. SOURCE: VOLUME 2, P. 229 -----

Samuel York had lot 26, the ministerial lot in 1717, p872, located 19 rods(rod=5.5 yards or 16.5 feet) north of mid point of leftmost of three islands perpendicular to the western bank of the Pejepscot River. ( another reference to Samuel's lot is on a map from the Pejepscot Proprietor's collection at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, ME) In Douglas p.258-259; 553; 620...Widow sold in 1823.

North Yarmouth Signer of Deed of 1684, Lots# 100, 106.

Ava H. Chadbourne, "Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns", p. 66, Cumberland Press 1971., "Free liberty was also given to John Batson to build a saw mill on Batson or Middle River and to John Purinton, Issac Cole, and Samuel York to build mills on the same river and to cut timber on the town commons." (the Batson or Middle River is located between Cape Porpoise and Goose Rocks Beach in York County, Me.)

Essex 4562 20-May-1713 Cotton Theophilus Samuel Sr. York 25 197 Plumb I Ipswich

Essex 4527 26-Apr-1714 York Samuel Jabish Swett 25 267 Ipswich

Essex 4532 13-Jul-1749 York Samuel est. Samuel Jr. Griffin 93 158 Falmouth

Sam York of Casco remains in the hands of the French in Canada October 1695. SOURCE: HISTORY OF GLOUCESTER, MA.

James Gyles, brother of Thomas--who died at Pemaquid, had ties with Gov. Andros. Came from Downs, England Sept. 5, 1668, arrived at Boston in Nov. 9., then on Nov 30th, went to Braintree, Mass, where the family hired a house until spring. At the Indian outbreak of April 16, 1672, they left their house in Topsham, at the point to go to Samuel York's as a garrison, where they stayed a month, but the Indians molesting their cattle and plundering their houses, and having several killed at Casco Bay, some of their men became timid and left, so that they had but nine men in the garrison. They accordingly left about the middle of September and went to Arrowsic. After the peace of April 1676...but on the account of the attack on Arrowsic, August 9, 1676, they were force to flee for their lives in a canoe and went to Damarascotta and then August 16th to Boston.

Subject: Questionable info-- I have just received this info from a person in Texas who I had written to regarding the father of Richard in the LDS files. It had said that John, father of Richard was born in Dover. I have written to a few people regarding this info, and although no one has been able to confirm it, I have had some other info given. This was sent to me just the other day: "First Settlers of ye Plantations of Piscataway & Woodbridge, Ole East, New Jersey, 1664-1714, P. 442, by Monnetta Orra Eugene. Leray Carmen Press, LA, CA 1930. Info Yorke Family. Richard Yorke was the old patriarch of this family who died in 1672, when he was accredited to Dover, New Hampshire in the Piscatasqua country. He sent some of his children, so to speak, into New Jersey to become FIRST SETTLERS there, and this will gives the best suggestions of inter-relationship, (State Papers, NH., Batchelor, Vol XXXI, Probate Rec., Vol1., 1635-1717, p. 134) His wife ELIZABETH_________, was apparently then living, but he names his son, JOHN YORKE, "That I now live with", daughter ELIZABETH CARL (wife of Timothy Carle), alias Cartie - OEM.); Daughter GRACE YORKE, to my sonne, SAMUELL YORKE," to "my daughter RATCHELL HALLE<" (wife of Captain Benjamin Hull of Piscataway, new settler); to "my sonne BENJEMAN YORKE," and referring to a tract of land, "being neare the second falle of Lample river adjoyning unto that which wase late ye John Martaines lott", unto my tor grandchildre, RICHAR YORKE and BENGIEMAN YORKE", ETC. his widow Elizabeth subsequently married Wiliam Graves.

There is no difficulty in recognizing the daughters and son, SAMUEL YORKE, et al, who became first settler of Piscataway and Woodbridge. SAMUE YORKE married MEHITABLE GANNETT, daughter of Rehoboth Gannett, of Piscataway, (Archives, Vol. xxi. pg 241), and these lineages will prove interesting to pursue. Dated 18 Dec 1666, NH Governor signed NH residents to move into 40.000 acres in the Raritan river, NJ area. They named it New Piscataway after the area they came from." I had heard that Samuel had married HANNAH MEHITABLE GANNETT, but I think we are definately dealing with two different Samuels here.

Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars By Emma Lewis Coleman 196 THE THIRD WAR PARTY CASCO BAY OR FALMOUTH YORK, JOHN. SAMUEL.[5]

John was probably son of John and Ruth (Graves). John, Sr., was killed in the attack as John, Jr., was said to have been, but Mrs. Swarton wrote that when the captives were separated she and "One John York" were the only two at Norridgewock, and that they "were both, almost starv'd for want." Their masters told them if they "could not hold up" they would kill them. "And accordingly John York, growing weak by his wants, they killed him."

Samuel. The carpenter of the following memorial may have been brother of John who was killed. His wife was Hannah and they lived in what is now Topsham. Their son Samuel testified in 1726 that their house was made a garrison where several other families were entertained until driven off by Indians. York Ledge and York Landing of Falmouth Foreside recall this family. Samuel, Sr., must have returned, as householder or soldier as shown by the "Memorial of Samuel York, Carpenter addressed to his Excellency the Earle of Bellomont at Albany the 2d of Septr 1700 sheweth: That I was taken prisoner in Casco Bay... in the moneth of May 1690 and carried to Canada where and in ¹ "Que. Docs., III, 6. 209 the hunting Indian countries I have lived ever since till the 29th day of this last July that I made my escape to come hither and during the last two years & half I was imployed in cutting masts for the use of the French King's Navy."

He gives the governor much information about the Western Indians; says that they and several bush-rangers who are with them are discontented and wish to come and trade with the English.¹ Before he returned to Casco Lord Bellomont sent him and others with a message to the Dowaganhas Indians, but they were stopped by "Indians of the Five Nations, who refused to accompany them and who told them (York and his friends) to return to Albany unless they meant to be knocked in the head by the French or their Indians."² Samuel York died in March, 1718. -snip- ¹N. Y. Docs., IV, 748. ²N. Y. Docs., IV, 768.]

Death date of 17 mar 1718 given on p131 V7 The Second Boat.

Les Whall, "Genealogy of Aaron Mereon York", "In 1710 and 1711, Suffolk County records document ownership of two sloops by Samuel and Joseph York."

File #: 30773 Name: Samuel Yoark; York; Yorke File Date: 27 Mar 1718 Residence: Gloucester Occupation: yeoman

Essex 456129-Jun-1702 SomesTimothy Sr. et ux Samuel Sr.York Book15Page 200 GloucesterNoNoNo


Sources

  1. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 3, page 1732. Subscription
  2. 2.0 2.1 Stackpole, Everett S., History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire : (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes, published 1913. Reference page 401
  3. 3.0 3.1 Babson, John James, History of the town of Gloucester, Cape Anne, including the town of Rockport, published 1860. Reference pages 182-3
  4. "Gloucester Inscriptions" The Essex Antiquarian. Salem, MA: The Essex Antiquarian, 13 vols. 1897-1909. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006.) Reference Volume 9, page 22
  5. NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVES CARRIED TO CANADA via Wayback Machine




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