Samuel Gregory

1646 - Bef 1702

• Name	Samuel Gregory  [1]
  Born	1646	probably, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef Jun 1702	Stratfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   [3]
  	Administration was granted June 18, 1702, on the estate of "Sarjt. Samuell Grigory of Stratfield" (early name for Bridgeport) to his widow Rebecca and sons Samuel and Benjamin. The inventory total was ¹701-13-2. A new house "that Samuel Gregory lives in" was valued at ¹75 - the mansion. To Samuel, eldest son, went the house he lives in, ¹7, and a double portion, ¹150-12-2.
  Notes	Orcutt in History of Stratford and Bridgeport says Samuel and his brother-in-law Henry Summers were probably the first settlers in what is now Bridgeport, Connecticut. He apparently lived at the junction of Washington and Park avenues. The latter is the old dividing line between the towns of Stratford and Fairfield. "Washington Ave. began at Samuel's house." At first he apparently was on the Stratford side of the line, just south of Summer's homestead, the Fairfield road separating them, but before his death he lived on the Fairfield side; 1695, 1700, he was called "of Fairfield." In 1720, his daughter Johannah sold land in Fairfield between the street and creek, "southward from the mansion and homestead of my late father." Samuel was a sergeant; freeman, 1669, & "husbandman." He fought in King Philip's War. He owned 13 parcels, a total of 300 acres, including lands at Ireland Brook, Chestnut Hill, Pagesutt Long Hill and Tashua Hill (now in Trumbull). He called Henry Wakeley "honored father-in-law," meaning step-father. On May 2, 1690, Mr. Gregory and his neighbors petitioned to be exempt from ministers' rates and schoolmasters' salaries in the two towns and to provide for themselves. The granting of this request virtually made the signers founders of the future city of Bridgeport. Samuel was one of the ten organizers of the Church of Christ in Stratfield in 1694. Tom, an Indian, was captured in the Dismal Swamp Fight, King Philip's War. Samuel Hall bound him to Samuel Gregory as a "servant for lifetime." In 1691, after three years service, "having behaved as a servant should do," Tom was freed. [3]
  Person ID	I48975	Bryant
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2005

  
  

  Father	Judah Gregory,   b. 1617, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England ,   d. Bef 04 Sep 1649, Stamford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
  Mother	Sarah Burt,   d. Aft 1711, probably, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
  Married	20 Jun 1643	Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts   [4]
  Family ID	F3376	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Wheeler,   b. 1648, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut ,   d. 26 Oct 1703, Stratfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
  Married	1665	Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   [1, 5, 6]
  Children	1. Rebecca Gregory,   b. 1673, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut ,   d. Nov 1765, Redding, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   2. Abigail Gregory,   b. Abt 1676, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   3. Samuel Gregory,   b. Abt 1678, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut ,   d. 11 Dec 1743, Stratfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   4. Benjamin Gregory,   b. Abt 1680, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut ,   d. 1738, Stratfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   5. Sarah Gregory,   b. Abt 1682, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   6. Martha Gregory,   b. Abt 1690, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut   7. Joanna Gregory,   b. Abt 1693, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut ,   d. 12 Oct 1774, Norwich, New London Co, Connecticut   8. Ebenezer Gregory,   d. 08 Mar 1749/50, Stratfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut
  Family ID	F3347	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1646 - probably, Stratford, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Married - 1665 - Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut Died - Bef Jun 1702 - Stratfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S347] The Hull Family History, Robert E. Hull, (Gateway Press, Inc, Baltimore, 1994), p.81. [S385] Ancestors & Descendants of Henry Gregory, Gregory, Grant, (Gregory, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1938), p. 62. [S385] Ancestors & Descendants of Henry Gregory, Gregory, Grant, (Gregory, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1938), p. 63. [S13] NEHGR, NEHGR, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 33:302. [S14] Torrey, Editor: Torrey, Clarence Almon, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, Baltimore, MD, 1985 (reprint)), p. 325. [S274] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).