Person:Sampson Sheafe (1)

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Sampson Sheafe
chr.26 Dec 1646 London, England
d.Aft 6 Dec 1725
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1642
  1. Elizabeth SheafeEst 1642 -
  2. Rebecca SheafeEst 1644 -
  3. Sampson Sheafe1646 - Aft 1725
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 1677
  1. Mehitable Sheafe1677 -
  2. Mehitable Sheafe1680 -
  3. Jacob Sheafe1681/82 - 1760
  4. Sampson Sheafe1683 - 1772
  5. Matthew Sheafe1684/85 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Sampson Sheafe
Gender Male
Christening[1] 26 Dec 1646 London, EnglandSt. Faith's Church
Marriage Bef 1677 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Mehitable Sheafe
Death[1] Aft 6 Dec 1725
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Threlfall, John B. (Brooks). Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1993)
    253-254.
  2. ↑ 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)
    4:66-67.

    Sheafe, Sampson, Boston 1672, merch. wh in indent. of Apr. 1673 calls hims. of London, m. Mehitable, d. of Jacob Sheaffe, had Jacob, b. 1677; and Sampson, 1681, H. C. 1702, went, aft. 1685, to Newcastle, N. H. and in that Prov. was collector of the customs, memb. of the counc. 1698, and Secr. and Judge of the Sup. Ct. but came back to B. and d. 1724. From him most of the name in N. H. descend.

  3. ↑ 3 Sampson Sheafe, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    626.

    Sheafe, Sampson, Esq., merchant, Newcastle, bp. in St. Faith's par., London, 26 Dec. 1646, s. of Edmund and Elizabeth (Cotton), was in N. E. perh. tempo. in Nov. 1668, ag. ± 21, and in Boston in 1672 but called of London. He 'visited' Newcastle in 1675, mov. there ab. 1693, but had Me. and N. H. interests earlier. … Dep. Collector of Customs for N. H. 1698-1707; Councillor and Secy. of the Prov. 1698; Clerk of Courts 1698; Commissary of exped. ag. Quebec 1711; in London in Apr. 1715, representing to the Lords of Trade 'if an enemy should possess themselves thereof (N. H.), as in the late war it was much feared, it would endanger the whole country.' … He d. in Boston soon aft. 6 Dec. 1725. His w. Mehitabel Sheafe, b. in Boston 28 May 1658, dau. of Jacob and Margaret (Webb), was his 2d cousin. Ch. rec. Boston: two Mehitabels, b. 10 Dec. 1677, 27 Nov. 1680. Jacob, b. 18 Feb. 1681, m. in Newb. 22 Nov. 1710 Mary Davison(1), approved as a Boston school-master 1712, d. there 26 Dec. 1760, ag. 79. 10 ch. rec. Hon. Sampson, Newcastle, b. 14 Aug. 1683, H. C. 1702, m. 27 Nov. 1711 Sarah Walton(5) who d. in Newc. 19 Aug. 1771, ag. 81. A merchant and West India trader; Councillor 1740-1761; d. 1772. 10 ch. See also … 'Ancestry of Lydia Harmon,' (W. G. Davis), p. 90. Matthew, b. 1 Jan. 1684.

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