Person:Samuel Wadsworth (1)

Name^[1]^[2]	Captain Samuel Wadsworth
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Est 1636	Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1660	to Abigail Lindall
Death^[1]	21 Apr 1676	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesAttack on Sudbury

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Christopher Wadsworth, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
3:1890.

"Samuel (Wadsworth), b. say 1636; …"
↑ Samuel Wadsworth, in 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)
4:380.

"Samuel (Wadsworth), Milton, s. of Christopher, freem. 1668, m. Abigail d. of James Lindall of Marshfield, had perhaps Recompense, wh. d. 12 July 1679, only a few days bef. he would have been gr. at Harv. in 21st yr.; Ebenezer, b. a. 1661; Christopher, a. 1663; prob. others, and certain. Benjamin 1669, H. C. 1690, min. of the first ch. in Boston, ord. 8 Sept. 1696, and Presid. of Harv. Coll. He was disting. as a capt. in Philip's war, and in Apr. 1676, going to relief of Sudbury on a sudden assault by the enemy, was overpower. by numbers, and with the lieut. Sharpe of Brookline, and half his comp. cut off 21 Apr. Yet many authorities gave the date 18. The matter seems stated with much plausibility and with suffic. caution as to weight of evid. in Geneal. Reg. VII. 221."