Samuel Thaxter

1641-1725 · Hingham MA

Born 1641, Hingham, Massachusetts

Died 1725

Father: Dea. Thomas Thaxter

Mother: Elizabeth Thaxter

Children include Sarah

Samuel Thaxter was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, on 19 May 1641. He was the youngest son of Dea. Thomas Thaxter, a linen weaver, and his wife Elizabeth. His father died when Samuel was twelve. His mother married twice more in the next four years and died at Dedham in 1660.

He was a cordwainer, a maker of shoes. He lived all his life on his father's homestead on Main Street, near the meeting house of the First Parish. In 1671 the town chose him constable, the officer who collected rates, served warrants and kept the peace.

On 19 December 1666 he married Abigail Church, the daughter of Richard Church, a carpenter, and Elizabeth Warren. Abigail's mother was a daughter of Richard Warren, who came in the Mayflower in 1620. Abigail's elder brother was Benjamin Church, who led the company that killed King Philip in 1676.

Samuel and Abigail had seven children in ten years, and five of them died as babies. Abigail, the first, was born on 29 September 1667 and died the next month. Sarah was born on 16 November 1668 and lived; she married Peter Dunbar in 1691. A second Abigail was born on 18 November 1670 and died the following March. David was born on 6 April 1672 and lived to be eighty eight. Mary was born on 16 May 1674 and died on 9 July. John was born on 27 July 1675 and died on 11 August. Samuel was born on 23 April 1677. His mother died on 25 December 1677, aged thirty. The baby Samuel died the next October.

On 13 June 1678 Samuel married again. His second wife was Deborah Lincoln, born at Hingham on 3 August 1645, a daughter of Thomas Lincoln, a cooper, and his wife Avith or Annes Lane. She bore him Deborah in 1679, a second Samuel in 1682 and a third Abigail in 1685. Deborah died on 7 December 1694, aged forty nine. Her son Samuel died two days later, aged twelve.

Samuel Thaxter outlived both his wives by many years. He died at Hingham on 27 May 1725, aged eighty four.

Parents

Dea. Thomas Thaxter d. 1653

Elizabeth Thaxter (d. 1660)

Children

Sarah Thaxter b. 1668

Sources

George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (1893), vol. III, p. 230, archive.org historyoftownofh03hing

George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (1893), vol. III, p. 231, archive.org historyoftownofh03hing

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol. IV (1862), p. 275, archive.org genealogicaldic04savarich

George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (1893), vol. III, genealogies, pp. 229-231, archive.org historyoftownofh03hing; James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol. IV (1862), p. 275, under THAXTER, archive.org genealogicaldic04savarich

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