Person:Samuel Hayden (5)

Samuel was in Captain Johnson's Company, engaged in the "Great Swamp Fight ". He died from the effects of the fight the next year.

Samuel probably lived in East Braintree on Commercial Street south of Elm Stree. He was in the War against King Philip with the Suffolk Troops and was at the Great Swamp Fight on 19 December 1675. He died before he father, probably from serving in Philip's war. Inventory of his estate was taken 26 October 1676 by John French and Caleb Hobart: "House & land Ð105 etc." His wife was granted administration 31 October 1676.

Savage says "Vinton's list of children is different from this, and may be better." His father's will dated 31 October 1678 provides for children of Samuel in right of their father.

Katherine, Hannah & Patience were baptized Jul.10,1685, and Susanna Hayden, & Sarah Wild, daughter of Hannah Paddleford were baptized May 8,1692.

1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:386-387.
2. ↑ Marjorie Waterfield. Hayden Family Group Sheets 1630-1900. Descendants of John Hayden who arrives on the ship 'John and Mary' in 1630. (1987)
   p. 1.
3. ↑ Ruth Hayden Freeman. My Branch of the Descendants of John Hayden of Braintree and Quincy Massachusetts. (Middlebury VT: 1984)
   p. 1.