ID: I2898
Name: Samuel PACKARD
Given Name: Samuel
Surname: Packard
Suffix: Yeoman
Sex: M
_UID: 02DC422CA94015448CF75DA35E76BC9A3B28
Change Date: 7 Oct 2007
Birth: 1604 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England 1 2
Death: 7 NOV 1684 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA 3 4 5 6
Probate: 3 MAR 1685 4
Will: 29 OCT 1684 Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA
Note: Among those named are wife Elizabeth (the 36 acre farm were he dwells, s ome meadow, a 20 acre lot, and £40), son Samuel (64 acres of his farm w here he dwells, 25 more), son Zacheus (24 acres and 50 acres), son John ( 70 acres), son Nathaniel (36 acres plus 25 acres, £10 as executor), gra ndson Israel Agur (1/3 of farm).
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Education: Signed with a mark. Some early records spell his name as Packer, perhaps because he could not write
Occupation: a Tavern owner (licensed 1670) Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA 7 8 2 9 10
Event:
Moved ABT 1660 Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA
Note: Samuel PACKARD and four of his sons were among the original 80 propriet ors of Bridgewater.
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Event:
Moved AFT 10 AUG 1638 Hingham, Plymouth Colony 7 8 1 9 10
Event:
Moved BEF 1655 Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1
Event: aboard the Diligent
Arrival 10 AUG 1638 Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Note: The Diligent left Ipswich in county Suffolk with 100 passengers, inclu ding "Samuel Packer" and his wife Elizabeth and maybe one unnamed child , and arrived 10 Aug 1638 at Boston, then went on to Hingham, Plymouth C olony. Some other sources claim that the Diligent sailed from Gravesend o n 26 Apr 1638 and carried 133 passengers. Some sources call the ship th e "Diligence."
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Event: on a committee to plat the street of
Public 1667 Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA 2
Event: Constable of
Public 1664 Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA 2 10
Event: £133
Inventory 5 MAR 1685 12
Marriage 1
Elizabeth
- Married:
BEF 10 AUG 1638
in England
- Note: Someone on the web printed the following: concerning the possibility th at Elizabeth's surname was STREAM: "Stream" is an unfounded (and compl etely undocumented) conjecture about her surname that was published yea rs ago. This error has been perpetuated countless times in print and on t he web. 3 13 14
Children
Zacheus PACKARD b: 1643 John PACKARD b: 20 JUL 1655 in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony Hannah PACKARD c: 19 JUL 1646 Israel PACKARD c: 19 JUL 1646 Thomas PACKARD b: in Hingham, Plymouth Colony Nathaniel PACKARD Deborah PACKARD Jane PACKARD b: BEF 20 APR 1651 in Hingham, Plymouth Colony c: 20 APR 1651 Abigail PACKARD b: BEF 20 APR 1651 in Hingham, Plymouth Colony c: 20 APR 1651 Deliverance PACKARD b: BEF 11 JUL 1652 in Hingham, Plymouth Colony c: 11 JUL 1652 in Hingham, Plymouth Colony Elizabeth PACKARD b: AFT 1664 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony Samuel PACKARD b: AFT 1664 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony Mary PACKARD b: AFT 1664 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony Sources:
- Abbrev: 0474 First Settlers of NE, Vol III
Title: James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New En gland Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, of t he Basis of Farmer's Register, Volume III (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical P ublishing Company, 1965) Page: 327
- Abbrev: 1125 Packard Family Record
Title: Eva L. Packard, "Packard Family Record," Kansas City Geneaologist 2 (1 J un 1961): 3-4 Page: 3
- Abbrev: 0637 New England Families, Vol I
Title: William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial ; a Record of the Achievements of her People in the Making of Commonwea lths and the Founding of a Nation; Complied under the Editorial Supervi sion of William Richard Cutter, Volume I. (New York, NY: Lewis Historic al Publishing Company, 1915.) Page: 80
- Abbrev: 0471 Pioneers of Massachusetts
Title: Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List D rawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and Other Conte mporaneous Documents (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co,., Inc, 1 986) Page: 338
- Abbrev: 1127 Samuel Packard's Will
Title: George Ernest Bowman, "Samuel Packard's Will," The Mayflower Descendant 15 (Oct 1913): 253-256 Page: 253
- Abbrev: 1129 VR of Bridgewater
Title: , Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston , MA: New England Genealogical Society, 1916) Page: Volume II, 534
- Abbrev: 0637 New England Families, Vol I
Title: William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial ; a Record of the Achievements of her People in the Making of Commonwea lths and the Founding of a Nation; Complied under the Editorial Supervi sion of William Richard Cutter, Volume I. (New York, NY: Lewis Historic al Publishing Company, 1915.) Page: 122
- Abbrev: 1077 History of North Bridgewater
Title: Bradford Kingman, History of North Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massac husetts, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, with Family Reg isters (Boston, MA: The author, 1866) Page: 585
- Abbrev: 0428 Genealogy of the State of Connecticut
Title: William Richard Cutter (Lead Editor), Genealogy and Family History of t he State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in t he Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. New York : Le wis Historical Publishing, 1911. Page: 1134
- Abbrev: 1348 History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater
Title: Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plym outh County, Massachusetts, Including an Extensive Family Register (Bos ton, MA: Kidder & Wright, 1840) Page: 253
- Abbrev: 0512 Planters of the Commonwealth
Title: Charles Edward Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth : a Study of the E migrants and Emigration in Colonial Times, to which are added lists of P assengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony, the Ships which Brought them , their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachuse tts, 1620-1640 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979) Page: 191 to 194
- Abbrev: 1127 Samuel Packard's Will
Title: George Ernest Bowman, "Samuel Packard's Will," The Mayflower Descendant 15 (Oct 1913): 253-256 Page: 256
- Abbrev: 0113 New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Title: Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: G enealogical Publishing Company, Inc, 1985) Page: 549
- Abbrev: 1242 History of the Town of Hingham
Title: George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (Hingham , MA: Town of Hingham, 1893) Page: Vol III, Pg 104
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