Deacon Samuel Root, son of John Sen., of Farmington, b. a. 1644, in Farmington, Ct. He removed with his brothers John and Thomas to Westfield, Mass. He was made a freeman in 1680, and united with the parish church in connection with his wife Mary the same year. He was chosen deacon of the church in 1703. There is no record found of his marriage, but his wife was in all probability a daughter of Thomas Orton, who, in the division of his estate by himself, in 1688 (to escape the great expense of administration during the tyrannical reign of Andros) mentions the name of one of his children as Mary Root. … Deacon Root died Nov. 27, 1711. His wife survived him, but they had no children. John Davis, however, was his adopted son. His will did not give satisfaction, and his property was divided, by mutual agreement, in equal shares among his brothers and sisters, leaving also an equal share (the seventh) to John Davis. This mutual agreement, recorded in Northampton and signed by all the children or their attorneys, is a sufficient proof in itself of what has been doubted, that John, Samuel, and Thomas, were brothers of Stephen, Joseph and Caleb.
