Samuel Smead1

#2136, (27 May 1669 - 1 January 1731)
Relationship6th great-granduncle of William David Lewis
Father*William Smead Jr1 (c 1635 - )
Mother*Elizabeth Lawrence1 (1642 - 1704)

Family 1

Mary Price b. 1681, d. 1704
Children 1.Sarah Smead5 (1700 - 1704)
 2.William Smead5 (1701 - 1704)

Family 2

Mary Weld b. s 1680
Children 1.Mary Smead6 (1708 - )
 2.Sarah Smead6 (1709/10 - )
 3.William Smead6 (1712 - 1712)
 4.Marcy Smead6 (1714 - )
 5.Samuel Smead Jr.6 (1718/19 - )
Birth*27 May 1669He was born on 27 May 1669 at Northampton, Hampshire Co., MassachusettsG.1 
Marriage*17 March 1698/99He married Mary Price, daughter of Robert Price and Sarah Webb, on 17 March 1698/99 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.2 
Marriage*18 April 1707He married Mary Weld on 18 April 1707 at Massachusetts.3 
Death*1 January 1731He died on 1 January 1731 at Wapping, Franklin Co., MassachusettsG, at age 61.4,2 

Citations

  1. [S1020] Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Northampton 1620/1650–1893/1988, unknown repository, unknown repository address, p. 11 in typed version. Hereinafter cited as Mass. Town and Vital Records: Northampton.
  2. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), Genealogies p. 301.
  3. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), p. 230, as Smeed: "Samuel, widr., and wid. Mary Alexander, Apr. 18, 1707." Mary Weld's husband, David, was killed in the Deerfield Raid. Mary, age 36, and their dau., Mary, were taken captive (Sheldon History of Deerfield I:308). The wife was later redeemed and married Samuel. Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
  4. [S1229] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Deerfield 1675–1898, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, transcript, p. 182, img 116/481, "Samuel Smead head of this family died January 1st 1730/31."
  5. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, Genealogies p. 301–302.
  6. [S1229] Mass. Town and Vital Records: Deerfield: transcript, p. 182, img 116/481, births and deaths in Samuel Smead's Family.