Samuel HUNTRESS

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 84
• _UID: F4A0EBA231C64176A59BE7FF233877A067BE
• Will: 29 Mar 1758

Notes:

He and his brother John had by their father's will the north-westerly half of their father's farm which by deed of 2 Apr. 1758 was divided between Samuel, who received a lot nearly square on the river, and Johnathan, son and devisee of John, who received the back lot on the road to Portsmouth and a strip running to the river at Kenney's Cove southeast of Samuel's lot. A straight line running from the head of Kenney's (Canney's) Cove to Hog Sty Cove at the mouth of the Great Bay was the original boundary line between Dover (Newington) and Portsmouth, signed the petition "of the Inhabitants of Bloody Point within the limits of Dover" for a separate Parish of Newington.

Occupation:
yeoman

A yeoman was a term used in those days for a small landowner

Will:
28 May 1758 His wife Mary and children William, Solomon, Joseph, Abigail wife of Phineas Colman, and Elizabeth wife of Samuel Fabyan and children of his son George, deceased, and two sons of his son Samuel, deceased

Died:
His gravestone reads:

Hear: Lies: the: body: of: SaMueL Huntrs: deSed: apral: 28dy: in: the: yer: 1758: aged 71 ye: