Family:Samuel Canfield and Elizabeth Merwin (1)

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Parents: Mathew Canfield and Sarah Treat
Samuel Canfield
chr. 19 Oct 1645 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
d. Oct 1690 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Parents: Miles Merwin and Elizabeth Powell
Elizabeth Merwin
b. Est 1648
 
m. Bef 1670
Facts and Events
Marriage[1] Bef 1670 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Ebenezer).
Children
BirthDeath
1.
Ebenezer Camfield
14 Feb 1669/70 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
12 Dec 1714 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
2.
Abigail Camfield
Apr 1673 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
8 Jul 1734 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
3.
Matthew Camfield
Est 1675
 
4.
Samuel Canfield
10 May 1678 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
Sep 1712 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
5.
Jedediah Camfield
Aug 1681 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
May 1761 Bedford, Weschester, New York
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The Identity of the Wife of Samuel Canfield

"James Savage in his Genealogical Dictionary, 1860, vol. I, p. 332, supposed that Sarah Willoughby's husband was Samuel Canfield, baptised 19 Oct. 1645, eldest son of Matthew of New Haven. Conn. However, both Frederick A. Canfield in his History of Thomas Canfield and of Matthew Canfield, 1897. p. 104. and the Rev. Charles M. Selleck in his Norwalk. 1896. p. 286-7, state that this Samuel married Elizabeth Willoughby. It seems then (although I have not had an opportunity to check the records) that Samuel Canfield is known to have had a wife named Elizabeth. She certainly could not have been Elizabeth Willoughby, for there is no record of such a woman. I believe that she was Elizabeth Merwin, daughter of Miles Merwin of Milford. Conn. This Elizabeth was born before 1650 and was named in the inventory of her father's estate, dated 12 May 1697, as Elizabeth Canfield (Savage, op. cit., vol. 3. p. 201)."[2]

References
  1. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. The English Ancestry of the Merwin and Tinker Families of New England: Part I: Miles Merwin of Windsor and Milford, Conn. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1995)
    149:305.

    Elizabeth2 Merwin … m. ca. 1672 Samuel Canfield … son of Samuel [error for Matthew] and Sarah (Treat) Canfield.

  2. ↑ MacEwen, Andrew B. W. The Camfield Husband of Sarah Willoughby and the Wife of Samuel Canfield, of Norwalk, Conn. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 1964)
    118:296.
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