Person:Samuel Wentworth (13)

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Samuel Wentworth
b.1708
d.1766
m. 12 Oct 1693
  1. Gov. Benning Wentworth1696 - 1770
  2. Mark Hunking Wentworth1697 - 1784
  3. Hannah Wentworth1700 - 1769
  4. Sarah Wentworth1702 - 1776
  5. William Wentworth1705 - 1767
  6. Samuel Wentworth1708 - 1766
  7. Mark Hunking Wentworth1709/10 - 1794
  8. Maj. John Wentworth
m. 1732
  1. Sarah Wentworth1735 - 1820
  2. Elizabeth Wentworth1737 -
  3. Lady Frances Deering Wentworth1745 - 1813
Facts and Events
Name[1] Samuel Wentworth
Gender Male
Birth[2] 1708
Degree[2] 1728 Harvard
Marriage 1732 to Elizabeth Deering
Death[2] 1766
References
  1. LETTERS OF HUGH HALL TO BENNING WENTWORTH, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    42(Jul 1888):300.

    ...Two of the brothers of [Benning] Wentworth married [half] sisters of [Hugh] Hall, namely Major John Wentworth ... who married Sarah Hall, and Capt. William Wentworth, who married Mrs. Mary (Hall) Winthrop. (See Wentworth Genealogy, Vol I. pp. 306-8.) ... another brother, Samuel, the father of Lady Wentworth, married Elizabeth Deering of Boston. ...

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 [1], in American Aristocracy website.

    Samuel Wentworth (1708-1766)
    Merchant, of Boston, Massachusetts

    He was the fifth son of the Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire and the younger brother of Benning Wentworth who filled the same post. His nephew and son-in-law, Sir John Wentworth 1st Bt., was the last Colonial Governor of New Hampshire and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He graduated from Harvard in 1728 and in 1732 married Elizabeth Deering. They had seven (listed) surviving children.