Person:Samuel Guile (6)

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"The early New England towns were founded by a sturdy, reverent and hard-working class of people, not many of whom had enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, and consequently the early records cannot be called models of correct grammar or spelling. The proper names are generally very much twisted and distorted in their use, and in this respect the name of our ancestor at Haverhill shared the common fate. We find him recorded on the records as Guild, Gild, Gilde, Guile and Gile, while the signature to his will is Guild or Gild. Most of his descendants are now found bearing the name Gile, except the posterity of his son John, who quite generally cling to the form of Guile."^[2]

Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire

"The name of Gile, Guile and Guild are doubtless of one common origin, and the variation in their orthography is not a modern innovation. Three immigrants of this name, Samuel and John, brothers, and their sister Ann, arrived from England in 1636. Samuel spelled his name Guile, while John wrote it Guild, and it is quite probable that the latter, meaning a society or corporation, was the ancient or original form of spelling. The above mentioned immigrants settled in Massachusetts, and the branch of the family now under consideration is descended from Samuel Guile. In the early town records the name appears to have been spelled according to the judgment or fancy of the town clerks or recorders, and the changes which it was subjected to at their hands are given here precisely as found in those records. From the two Guild brothers, men noted for their modest and retiring dispositions, a numerous progeny have descended, some of whom have held prominent positions in public life, and many have made enviable reputations in humbler but' no less honorable places.

(I) Samuel Guile, his brother John and sister Ann, all supposed to have been born in England, not later than 1620, came to America in the year 1636, and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. Samuel was for a brief period at Dedham, and seems soon to have been one of the first settlers of Newbury, but did not remain long, for in 1640 he was one of the twelve who settled Pentucket, now Haverhill. He became a freeman by permission of the general court in 1642, but careful examination of the records fails to show that he took any part in town or church affairs. In 1650, Samuel Gild made choice of land at Little river ; in 1652 received ten acres of the second division ; in 1658 Samuel Guile enters into a contract for the support of a blacksmith, and receives land in the third division. Samuel Gilde, senior, built a cottage about 1660, and in 1663 received land in the fourth division. He died February 21, 1683. Part of his homestead remains in the possession of his descendants. By the terms of his last will and testament, dated February 16, 1683, he disposes of his property, in the inventory of which are mentioned : eight neat cattle, ten sheep, twenty-two acres of oxe common land, twenty-five acres of pond plain, eighteen acres of pond meadow, a dwelling house, barn and orchard, three acres by the orchard, six commonages or common rights, one hundred acres of third division, upland and meadow, the fourth division to be laid out one hundred and eighty acres, loom, etc., one bible, appraised value £336, 6s. He married, September 1, 1647, Judith Davis, daughter of James Davis, one of the original settlers, and an emigrant from Marlborough, England. Their children, all born at Haverhill, were: Samuel, Judith, John, Hannah, Sarah, James and Ephraim."^[3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 1 Samuel¹ Guile, in Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
   1:189.

   "1 Samuel¹ Guile [Gile or Gild], of Haverhill, [bro. of John Guild of Dedham]; m. Sep. 1, 1647[Hv], Judith² Davis. He rem. from Nb. to Hv. ab. 1640 or '42; d. Feb. 21, 1683-4. Will Feb. 16, March 25, 1683-4."

2. ↑ Samuel Gile¹, in Burleigh, Charles. The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile, and Gile Family. (Portland, Me.: Brown Thurston & Company, 1897).
3. ↑ Stearns, Ezra S.; William F. Whitcher; and Edward Everett Parker. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1908)
   3:1137-38.