Person:Samuel Whitehead (2)

Name^[1]^[2]	Sergeant Samuel Whitehead
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Bef 1613
Emigration^[1]	1634
Residence^[1]	1634	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence^[1]	1636	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Military^[1]	1637	Served in the Pequot War [CCCR 2:150].
Residence^[1]	1639	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Other^[1]	6 Aug 1642	New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesAdmitted freeman of New Haven Colony.
Marriage	Bef 10 Mar 1646/47	to Unknown Unknown
Marriage	9 May 1676	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Sarah Gregson
Death^[1]	Sep 1690	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory^[1]	11 Nov 1690	£370 13s. (against which were debts of £30 13s. 1d.), of which £187 10s. was real estate.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 ^1.9 Samuel Whitehead, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
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ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 5 January 1634/5 [CaTR 11]).
OCCUPATION: On 21 March 1652/3, "Samuell Whithead was desired to dress the swords that are brought to him for that purpose, and the gunsmiths are desired to attend the mending of guns in the town that are brought to them" [NHTR 1:176]. This suggests that Samuel Whitehead may have been a metalworker of some kind.
FREEMAN: On 6 August 1642, "brother Abbott and brother Whitehead [were] admitted members of the court and received the charge of freemen" [NHCR 1:76; see also NHCR 1:10, 17].
BIRTH: By 1613 (based on grant of land at Cambridge in 1634 [CaTR 1:11]).
DEATH: New Haven [blank] September 1690 [NHVR 69].
↑ [1], in Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford.

Samuel Whitehead, Cambridge, 1635; an original proprietor at Hartford, where his home-lot before 1639 was or Main St., on what is now the south corner of Pearl and Main Sts.; but he had sold part of it to Richard Lord, before Feb., 1639-40, and part to John Skinner. He served in the Pequot War, 1637, and received a grant of land for his services, in 1671 ; he removed to New Haven, where he was admitted freeman, and a member of the General Court, Aug. 6, 1642; m. May, 1676, Sarah, widow of John Gilbert, den. of Thomas Gregson; d. Sept. 1690.