Samuel Fairchild
Ship's carpenter of Stratford, Connecticut, born there in 1640 and said to be the first child of the settlers born in the town; probably the eldest son of Thomas Fairchild and his first wife, a Seabrook. He married Mary, daughter of Moses Wheeler, and had five children, probably among them Jonathan, who went to Norwalk. He died at Stratford in 1704/5.
Life
- 1640Born31 Aug 1640, Stratford, Connecticut
Gilmore, from the Connecticut vital records; Orcutt has the same date.
- 1704DiedJan 1704/5, Stratford, Connecticut
Orcutt has "about 1704."
Family
- Father
- Thomas Fairchild
Eldest of Thomas Fairchild's children in the Stratford records (Orcutt; Gilmore). When his lands were recorded on 10 Dec 1674 they included 12 acres "received from his father 30 Dec 1668" (Gilmore, from the Stratford land records).
compiledprobableSources
- Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), with More Fairchilds in America
- Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1886)
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md
- Mother
- Emma Seabrook
His lands recorded in 1674 included land "received by gift from his grandfather Seabrook" (Gilmore, from the Stratford land records), so his mother, Thomas's first wife, was a Seabrook. Her first name, Emma, is probable only.
- Spouse
- Mary Wheeler
"Samuel, son of Thomas Fairchild, m. Mary, dau. of Moses Wheeler" (Orcutt). Their first known child was born in 1681.
compiledprobableSources
- Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1886)
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (1915), vol. 2
- Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), with More Fairchilds in America
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Ship’s carpenter of Stratford, Connecticut, eldest son of Thomas Fairchild and his first wife, a daughter of Robert Seabrook. Born on 31 August 1640, he was “Probably the first white child born in Stratford, Conn.” (source). “On 10 Dec 1674 Samuel’s lands were recorded. He had 12A received from his father 30 Dec 1668, land received by gift from his grandfather Seabrook and land he had received in exchange with brother Thomas. … Samuel was a ship’s carpenter and a member of the Congregational Church in Stratford” (source).
He married Mary, daughter of Moses Wheeler, the Stratford ship carpenter and ferryman. Their children: Robert, born 1681, “to whom Moses Wheeler left property”; Samuel, about 1682 or 1683, very probably the Samuel Fairchild who in 1712/13 helped settle his grandfather Wheeler’s estate; Anna; Edward, born 1685/6, of Newtown; and Jonathan, born 10 October 1692, who went to Norwalk. Samuel died in January 1704/5, and Mary married Benjamin Beach that December.
The family’s descent from him rests on the identification of Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett with his great-grandson Jonathan, born at Norwalk in 1744, which is only possible (see Jonathan Fairchild).
Research: research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md.
Open questions
- The distribution of his estate (Fairfield probate, 1705), which should name his children, Jonathan among them.
Connections
- Famous kin
- Lucius Fairchild
Governor of Wisconsin, 1866-1872, Union colonel who lost an arm at Gettysburg, and U.S. Minister to Spain
Lucius Fairchild is the fourth cousin, four times removed, of the centre of this tree. - James Harris Fairchild
Third president of Oberlin College, whose brothers George T. and E. Henry Fairchild led Kansas State and Berea
James Harris Fairchild is the fourth cousin, four times removed, of the centre of this tree. - David Fairchild
Botanist and plant explorer, who brought soybeans, pistachios, mangos and flowering cherries to the United States
David Fairchild is the fifth cousin, three times removed, of the centre of this tree.
- Lucius Fairchild
- In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Samuel's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.