Person:Samuel Partridge (10)

Notes of Caution

• Savage (1860)¹ and later Barbour (1977)² have Col. Samuel Partridge marrying 2nd the widow of John Atwater of Salem.
• Dwight (1874)⁵ claimed that Savage was in error, stating that it was Samuel, the son of Col. Samuel, who m. Atwater's widow and claimed that the father m. (2) 28 Dec 1731 widow Hannah Edwards, "probably" widow of Nathaniel Edwards of Northampton.
  • This claim is supported by the Northampton Vital Records which show that the widow of Nathaniel Edwards m. (3) Hon. Samuel Partridge Dec. 28 1731 at Hatfield. (AmericanAncestors.org , Walter E. Corbin Collection, p 2259)
• Starr (1891)⁶ agreed that the widow Atwater married the son Samuel but didn't recognize a second marriage for Col. Samuel, stating that Mehitable Crow was the first (and only) wife.
• Andrews (1900)⁷ agreed with Dwight (1874).

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)
   3:366.

   PARTRIDGE, SAMUEL, Hadley, s. of William of the same, m. 24 Sept. 1668, Mehitable, d. of John Crow, had William, b. 1669, H. C. 1689, made reg. of prob. ct. 1692, a preach. a. 1693, rem. to Hatfield, had Samuel, 1672; Mehitable, 1675; Mary 1678; Jonathan, 1681, d. at 3 yrs.; Edward, 1683; Jonathan, again, 1685, d. next yr.; John, 1686, H. C. 1705; and Elizabeth 1688. He was rep. 1685 and 6, m. 1695, the young wid. of John Atwater of Salem, d. of Rev. Seaborn Cotton; was col. of the reg. Judge of Pro. one of his Majesty's Council, &c. &c. the most import. man after d. of Col. Pynchon, 1703, in all the W. part of the Prov. and d. 25 Dec. 1740, aged 95 yrs. 2 mos. and 10 days. For some yrs. his name was by hims, writ. like his f's Partrigg and in sev. old rec. it is Partridges, or even Patrick; but he adopt. the present spell. Mehitable m. 1693, Nathaniel Dwight; Mary m. 1695, Josiah Dwight; and Elizabeth had four hs. two Hamlins, a Johnson, and a Payson.
   
   [See Notes of Caution]

2. ↑ Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
   445.

   Samuel (Partridge) b. Oct 15, 1645 (Hartford Town Record) m/1 Mehitable Crow m/2 (-----) (Catlin) Atwater.
   
   [See Notes of Caution]

3. ↑ Col Samuel Partridge, in Find A Grave.
4. ↑ Hatfield (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Births, marriages, and deaths in four Massachusetts towns, 1655-1844. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   p. 112 reverse.

   The Hon'ble Samuel Partridge Esq'r Died Dec'r 25th 1740 AEt [??] 96 years.

5.   Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. (John F. Trow & Son, 1874)
   1:112.
6.   Starr, Frank Farnsworth, and James Junius Goodwin. The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut : Descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin. (Hartford, Conn.: Brown and Gross, 1891)
   107.
7.   Andrews, H. F. (Henry Franklin). The Hamlin Family: A Genealogy of Capt. Giles Hamlin of Middletown, Connecticut, 1654-1900. (Exira, Iowa: The Author, 1900)
   41.

   Col. Samuel Partridge, ² b. Hartford. Oct. 15. 1645: m. 1st. Sept. 24, 1668, Mehitable, dau. of John and Elizabeth ( Goodwin ) Crow, b. about 1652; who d. Dec. 8, 1730; m. 2d. Dec. 28, 1731, Mrs. Hannah Edwards.
   
   Removed from Hadley, to Hatfield Mass. 1687; merchant, 1692-1740; Colonel of a regiment: representative, 1685-6; Judge of Court of Common Pleas, and thirty years Chief Justice; member of His Majesties Council, After the death of Col. Pynchon, 1703, the most important man of Western Mass. He d, Hatfield, Dec. 25, 1740.