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Samuel Smith b c 1602 Hadleigh ENG m Elizabeth SMITH. Although some sources have Samuels wife as being a Chileab, according to the NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society, here name was Smith. SAMUEL, Lieut., with wife Elizabeth and children, Samuel, ae. 9, Elizabeth, ae. 7, Mary, ae. 4, and Philip, ae. 1, sailed for New England, the last day of April, 1634, in the Elizabeth of Ipswich. He and his wife were each then called thirty two years of age. *South Hadley, Amherst and Granby (Hampshire County), MA were split off from and formed from Hadley (Hampshire County) in 1753-54). Hadley was founded in 1659. Samuel Smith and family sailed from England on the Elizabeth on 30 Apr 1634 during the Great Migration and settled first in Watertown and then in Wethersfield, CT in 1635. After a dissention in the church, he and a number of others moved up the Connecticut River and founded Hadley in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659. "He came from Wethersfield, Ct., where he was a leading man, to Hadley, where he held important offices both in church and state." He is supposed to have died in 1680, ae. abt. 78. His inventory was taken Jan. 17, 1681. He m. Elizabeth, who d. March 16, 1686, ae. 84. (Source for Elizabeth's name is Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Vol II H-S p 1404. Clarence Almon Torrey. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston 2011. Anderson (Great Migration, NEHGS) comments that "Pope muddled records for this immigrant with those of another Samuel Smith of about the same age, who resided at Salem and Wenham [Pope 423])
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