Person:Samuel Fellows (2)

1745-1750: a licensed innholder in Harvard. "Samuel Fellows owned lands which he bought of Reverend John Seccomb, Jonathan Sawyer, Thomas Wright and others near the south-east corner of the town's common. Jonathan Puffer succeeded him on the same estate, but their inn cannot be exactly located, and is probably not now [1894] standing. Oliver Whitney and Joseph Curtis were in the same neighborhood."

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 434-5] 1750: seated in the Harvard meeting house, second seat in the side gallery [one of the less desirable locations].

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 193] 1755: sold Thomas Wheeler's farm in Harvard. "James Haskell, Senior, coming from Gloucester in 1755, bought of Samuel Fellows the farm of Thomas Wheeler, who had removed to Dorchester Canada [Ashburnham, MA]. Wheeler's house, probably built a short time before Harvard's incorporation [1732], stood near the junction of the roads until within a few years [before 1894], when it was removed, the residence of Austin C. Stratton now [1894] occupying its site."

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 95] 1756: a selectman (with Nathan Warner and Oliver Stone] of Harvard. [History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 421] 1757: in the muster roll of a foot company of the Massachusetts militia. "A Muster roll of a Company of Troopers commanded by Samuel Haskell of Harvard, out of Collo. Oliver Wilder's Rigt. that March'd on the late alarm for the Relief of Fort William Henry, as far as Springfield. Service August 13 to August 26, 1757... Cornet Samuel Fellows...

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 297, from Massachusetts Archives, xcv, 533.] 1758: served in the militia in the summer campaign, assigned the capture of Ticonderoga. "The Harvard men serving in the summer campaign with the regiment of Colonel Jonathan Bagley, in the company of Daptain Salmon Whitney of Stow, were: ... Samuel Fellows ...

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 298, from Massachusetts Archives, xcvi, 473.] 1762: garrisoned at Crown Point. "The six years' conflict [1754-1760] had ended in the complete conquest of Canada, and New England had nothing further to dread from French and Indian raids; but for two years more, until the Treaty of Paris was signed, the forts at Crown Point and Halifax were garrisoned by New England men. At the former were stationed under Captain Thomas Farrington of Groton these soldiers of Harvard in 1762: ...Samuel Fellows...

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 301, from Massachusetts Archives, xcix, 223, &c.] between 1762 and 1770: moved to Dorchester Canada (Ashburnham). "The Dorcester-Canada Exodus: Immediately after the final conquest of Canada, which forever relieved New England from fear of French invasion, the landless and the adventurous began swarming from the older towns of Massachusetts into the wilderness where farms could be had for the clearing. Then happened a noteworthy exodus from Harvard. Nearly one-tenth of her citizens sought homes in the newer towns. Most of these emigrants by chance found their promised land in Dorchester Canada, which was incorporated as Ashburnham in 1765... Thomas Wheeler, one of Harvard's first selectmen, and for eight years town clerk, soon [after 1760] followed, and set up a tavern in the wilds. Between 1760 and 1770, Harvard lost and Ashburnham gained: ... Samuel Fellows, ... Most of these were men with families. Ashburnham for a time was a Harvard Colony."

[History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts, pg. 120] [Congregational Church in Shelburne, Mass] 1770-1774: received by letter into First Congregational Church, Shelburne, MA. about 1775: moved to Shelburne, Massachusetts [Deane Merrill, 11/28/02. From Fellows genealogies at Shelburne Historical Society.] [Hill Cemetery, Shelburn

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Shelburne, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1931)
   36, 156.

   36 FELLOWS, Samuel, s. Samuel and Sarah (Webster), [born] June 15, 1712. P.R.10.
   156 FELLOWS, Samuel, Dea. [h. Eunice (Heald). P.R.10.], Oct. 27, 1781, a. 70 y. P.R.18.