Person:Samuel Topliffe (3)

  1. Sarah Topliff1639 - 1683
  2. Obedience Topliff1642 - 1678
  3. Patience Topliff1644 - 1695/96
  4. Samuel TopliffAbt 1646 - 1722
m. Bef 1673
  1. Mehetabel Topliff1673 -
  2. Samuel Topliff1675 - 1694
  3. Patience Topliff1677/78 - 1720/21
  4. Thankful Topliff1679/80 - 1747
  5. Jonathan Topliff1682 - 1700
  6. Waitstill Topliff1684 - 1737
  7. Joseph Topliff1687 -
  8. Ebenezer Topliff1689/90 -
  9. Deacon Nathaniel Topliff1692 - 1751
  10. Samuel Topliff1695 -
  11. Sarah Topliff1698 - 1784
Facts and Events
Name Samuel Topliff
Gender Male
Christening[2] Abt 10 May 1646 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1673 Per birth of eldest known child
to Patience Somes
Ordination[2] 3 Feb 1701/02 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesRuling Elder, Dorchester First Church
Death[1][3] 12 Oct 1722 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    p. 131.

    1722.
    Elder Samuel Topliff Dyed october the 12th 1722 in the 77th year of his age.

  2. 2.0 2.1 First Church (Dorchester, Massachusetts). Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734. (Boston, Massachusetts: G. H. Ellis, 1891)
    p. 6.

    1646.
    about 10 May 1646.
    Baptised, Samuel Topliff (son of Clement Topliff) who was ordained Ruling Elder ffeb. 3. 1701-2

  3. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
    Case 4662.

    Vol. 22, p. 741 Will of "Samuel Topliff of Dorchester ... Yeoman", dated 21 Feb 1720/21, proved 5 Nov 1722, names wife Patience [after her decease estate to be divided equally among "my Children"]; son Joseph Topliff; daughter Patience Craft; daughter Waitstill Hensha; son Eben'r Topliff; son Nath'll Topliff; son Sam'll Topliff; daughter Sarah Topliff. Sons Eben'r Topliff and Nath'll Topliff to be executors. [Note: the children are named in reference to advances received, so he may not, and appears did not, name all children.]
    Vol. 22, p. 778 21 Nov 1722: Inventory of Samuel Topliff of Dorchester Yeoman: £503=03=1, by Sam'll Paul, James Blake, Daniel Preston. Vol. 22, p. 781 14 Dec 1722: Additional inventory: £52=17=8.
    Vol. 22, p. 818 7 Jan 1722[/23]: Account of Nath'll Topliff Surviving Exec'r of Sam'll Topliff Late of Dorchester, allowed.
    Vol. 26, p. 297 1 Feb 1727/28: Additional inventory of Elder Samuel Topliff of Dorchester, of lands which are now in Stoughton: £27.

  4.   Suffolk County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
    Vol. 56, folio 156.

    8 Sep 1733: Joseph Topliff yeoman of Stoughton and Samuel Topliff Housewright of Milton and Samuel Henshaw of Milton Yeoman and Waitstill his wife and Thankful Searl of Dorchester Widow and John Trescott Jun'r of Dorchester yeoman and Sarah is wife, the said Joseph Topliff, Samuel Topliff, Thankful Searl, Waitstill Henshaw and Sarah Trescott being Children and Heirs of Elder Samuel Topliff, late of Dorcester... for £350 paid by our Brother Nathaniel Topliff of said Dorchester Executor of the last Will quitclaim all rights to any real estate Samuel Topliff our Father Died Seized of.