Samuel Moulton
Samuel Moulton was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, on 19 October 1710. The town clerk entered him as "Samuel, s. John and Sarah." His father John Moulton was a Wenham selectman who laid out the boundary between Wenham and Beverly in 1718. His mother was Sarah Conant, a granddaughter of Roger Conant, the man who led the first settlers to Salem in 1626.
He grew up in a house of eight children. The Wenham records give them in order: Mary in 1696, John in 1698, Abigail in 1701, Josiah in 1703, Hannah in 1706, Sarah in 1709, Samuel in 1710 and Benjamin in January 1712. Josiah died in 1730, at twenty-six. Mary married John Bingham of Windham, Connecticut, and Benjamin married Tabitha Howard of Ipswich.
His great-grandfather, James Moulton, had come from Norfolk, England, to Salem in 1637 and moved to Wenham, where he became a deacon and paid the largest tax in town. The family house stood on the road from Wenham to Topsfield, below a hill that still carried the Moulton name in 1906.
Samuel was living at Ipswich, the next town north, when he married Sarah Fisk of Wenham at Ipswich on 13 March 1733. The Wenham clerk entered it among the Fisk marriages as "Sarah, and Samuel Moulton of Ipswich." The Moulton and Fiske genealogies date it 23 February 1733, probably the day the intention was published. Sarah was the eldest child of Deacon Ebenezer Fiske, a Wenham farmer.
Their children were recorded at Wenham: Samuel on 19 March 1735, Elizabeth on 18 November 1736, Unis on 24 March 1739, Abel on 28 August 1741 and Reuben on 21 March 1744. By 1747 the family had moved to Connecticut. Sarah died on 4 October 1747, at thirty-six, and was buried at Ellington, then a parish of Windsor. Her stone reads: "Here Lies ye Body of Mrs Sarah Moulton ye wife of Mr Samuel Moulton who Died Oct 4th."
Samuel probably married again by 1751, to Phebe Palmer, born at Windham, Connecticut, in 1718, a daughter of Gershom Palmer and Hannah Spencer, and after her death to a woman named Anne. The children of the second marriage were probably Phebe, Gershom, John and Hannah. The sons Gershom, born in 1753, and John, born in 1755, went to Castleton with their half-brothers.
In the 1760s his son Samuel was living at Salisbury, in northwest Connecticut, where his children were born from 1765 to 1771. In 1771 the young men went north together to Castleton, in the New Hampshire Grants that became Vermont. The county history of 1886 names Abel, Reuben, Reuben's "brother, Samuel," and John and Gershom Moulton among the settlers of that one year. Reuben kept a tavern two miles east of the village. Abel kept a store and died of smallpox in 1776.
Samuel Moulton died on 17 December 1777 and was buried beside his first wife at Ellington. His red sandstone stone, carved with a winged face, reads: "In Memory of Mr Samuel Moulton who Died December 17th 1777 in the 67th Year of his Age."
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Cite: Heirology, "Samuel Moulton (1710-1777)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/samuel-moulton-1710-1777-21da2f.