SAMUEL [3], the fifth child of John 2d was born July 11, 1737, In Windsor, and married Lucy Winchell [4], daughter of Martin and Lucy Winchell. They had eleven children [5]: Theodosia, Lucy, Mary, Samuel, Aaron, Jesse, Eliphas, Worthy, Chauncey, Mary and James. The first Mary and James died young. All the others had large families.
Samuel 1st (the writer’s grandfather) was a farmer, active vigorous and industrious. He was an officer in the English service in the French war of 1762 [6] and a Captain in the American service in the war of the Revolution. Before the Revolution he removed from Windsor to Granville, Massachusetts. He sympathized with the malcontent Shays [7], in 1784, and suffered considerably thereby. In 1788 he was a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts [8].
In 1790 he removed to Rutland, Vermont. All his sons and daughters moved there about the same time, except Samuel, Jr., Lucy and Worthy. Samuel 1st had the reputation of a sensible honest man, and exercised considerable influence in society. He was about 5 feet 9 inches in height and weighed about 150 pounds, which was lighter than the average of his brothers or children. He was many years a consistent member of the Congregational Church [9] in West Rutland. He died December 3, 1821 aged 84 years and 5 months. He was the last survivor of his generation.
In the year 1820 he had six living sons and daughters, sixty-two living grand children, twenty-eight great grand children, and several of the fifth generation — over one hundred descendants. Their descendants have probably doubled each twenty-five years since; if so there were, in 1845, two hundred, and will be in 1870, four hundred. [The population of the United States has, for fifty years past, doubled in each twenty-three years.]
Samuel’s wife, Lucy [4], was a woman of plain manners, stout frame and robust health; a kind-hearted Christian, always ready and willing to do her whole duty to her family and neighbors. Her father [10] died February 15, 1785. Her brothers [11] were Martin, Nathaniel and Dan. She had one sister, Deborah, who married Simeon Lewis [12], of Windsor, Connecticut.
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