A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
BirthJun 1636, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony, BCA1422
Death20 Sep 1711, East Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut Colony, BCA1422 Age: 75
FatherRalph Hemenway (Hemingway) (1603-1678)
MotherElizabeth Hewes (1603-1684)
Spouses
Birth21 Aug 1645, New Haven, New Haven Colony, BCA11
Death23 Nov 1689, East Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut Colony, BCA11 Age: 44
BurialOld Cemetery, East Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut2256
FatherJohn Cooper (1610-1689)
MotherMary Woolen (1618-1685)
Notes for Samuel Hemingway
Civil War Heroes Commander William B. Cushing, Lt. Alonzo Cushing (Cushing's Battery), and Lt. Howard B. Cushing (Indian Fighter) are descendants.
Sources:
1) Melissa Stewart Database, 31 Oct 2001
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:74080 0&id=I34917396
File Number: 1VC7-J6W
Samuel settled in New Haven, CT, and later at East Haven 1660 and was town clerk for a long time. His signature is available at the CT State Archives Ecclesiastical 1:70b 1680.
Partial Source: Ralph Hemmenway of Roxbury, Mass., 1634 : and his descendants, by Clair Alonzo Newton; Naperville, Ill.: unknown, 1932-43, 444 pgs.
Tuttle quotes the Rev. Mr. Haven saying that Samuel Hemingway "was probably the richest and most influential man in the village of East Haven, CT." He first settled in New Haven, CT and then moved the East Haven in 1660. He was the town clerk for a long time. His signature is at the Connecticut State Archives (Ecclesiastical 1:706 1680)
SAMUEL HEMINGWAY (II), son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, June, 1636, and died in East Haven, Connecticut, September 20, 1711. He married, March 23, 1661-2, Sarah, daughter of John Cooper of New Haven, Connecticut. (Cooper IV.) Samuel Hemingway settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and removed to East Haven in 1660. That he was a man of considerable education and refinement is shown in the town records which he kept for many years, his 2nd cousin 9 times removed of Gordon Fisher
"John Cooper, the father of this Hannah Cooper, removed from New Haven to East Haven, about the time the iron works established there, of which he was an agent. He had two daughters, Hannah and Sarah. Hannah married John Potter; and Sarah, a year later, married Samuel Hemingway; and so both were connected with the Holt family. .....Samuel Hemingway, son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, and the father of Abigail (wife of Joseph Holt [see under his name]), was a member of the Roxbury church, and one of the largest taxpayers andland owners in Roxbury. He was born June 1636 at Roxbury,Nassachusetts. March 23, 1662 he married at New Haven, Sarah, the daughter of John Cooper. Samuel, who settled in New Haven and later moved to East Haven, was a very busy man and influential citizen. Hewas owner of the Grist Mill about 1681 and twenty-five years later hissons established the Fulling Mill. He served his town in many and varied capacities; such as settling boundary questions, securing millgrants, revising village records, as town clerk performing minor duties. He was a neat and handsome penman and was rated the third richest man in town. He had 10 poles of land valued at 147 lbs., and he had 69 1/2 acres. Jacob Hemingway, the brother of Abigail, has been mentioned as pastor and teacher. In the fifth generations we find the name of Merit Heminway [sic] of Watertown, Conn. --- who held to the old way of spelling the name --- born in 1800. He has made the name familiar to every householder in the Union, on spools of silk.The old house where he was born is still standing on Main Street near the Branford line. One record states that Isaac Hemingway, a brother of Jacob and Abigail, was the great grandfather of President Rutherford B. Hayes."
--- Emily Holt Durkee in *The First Three Generations of Holts in America*, no date, p 237-8
The last statement disagrees with the line shown elsewhere from Ralph Hemingway and Elizabeth Hewes, which shows their son Joshua Hemingway rather than Isaac Hemingway as great-grandfather of Rutherford B.Hayes.
"Samuel, son of Ralph Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, in June, 1636.The name is also spelled by various branches of the family Hemingway,Hemmingway, Hemenway and Hemmenway. He settled in New Haven,Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of hisdescendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education andrefinement. The town records which he kept for a long time show hisadmirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of JohnCooper, a magistrate and early settler. Children: Sarah, born July26, 1663; Samuel, December 13, 1665; Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah,September 14, 1670; Abigail, February 16, 1672; John, May 29, 1675;Abraham, December 3, 1677, mentioned below [under Abraham (1)HEMINGWAY]; Isaac (twin), December 6, 1683; Jacob (twin) December 6,1683, first student in Yale College, B.A. 1704, and pastor of thechurch in East Haven for fifty years."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p 1678
"SAMUEL [HEMINWAY], married Sarah Cooper, 1662. They had Sarah, July26, 1663, who married Thomas Goodsell, 1684; Samuel, Dec. 13, 1665;Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah, Sept. 14, 1670, who married John Howe,jun.; Abigail, Feb. 16, 1672, who married Joseph Holt, 1706; John, May29, 1675; Abraham, Dec. 3, 1677; Isaac [died young] and Jacob, Dec. 6,1683."
--- Stephen Dodd, *The East-Haven Register*, 1824, p 124. On p 123there is a note which states, among other things: "The name HEMINWAY, in East-Haven, is HEMENWAY, and HEMMENWAY in Massachusetts. But in England it is HEMMINGWAY, which is the original and real name." From same, p 14: "John Cooper came to Stoney-river [at East Haven CT] about the time of the building of the Iron works [abt 1657], of which he appears to have been the agent and overseer. (P) In 1662, Samuel Heminway appeared and obtained land for a home lot, which was not far from the furnace." Also, p 28, Dodd quotes an application dated 2 Jul 1681 by Samuel Hemingway for land on which to build a grist-mill "at the Furnace Dam" of the iron works. This was denied. However, the sons John and Abraham of Samuel got such a grant 25 years later from the town of Branford, 23 Aug 1706. And, p 35: "At this meeting [29Mar 1684] John Thompson, Matthew Moulthrop, and Samuel Heminway were chosen selectmen. And in August, John Thompson and Samuel Heminway were chosen collectors of rates, and George Pardee constable."
Samuel was born and raised in Roxbury, the second but oldest surviving of seven children. He was probably educated at Roxbury's Latin School which John Elliot founded in 1645. Samuel's father was one of the original donors who helped support the school: "Whereas, the inhabitants of Roxburie, in consideration of their religious care of posterity, have taken into consideration how necessary the education of their children in literature will be to fit them for public service, both in church and commonwealth, in succeeding ages. They therefore have unanimously consented and agreed to erect a free school in the said Towne of Roxburie, and to allow twenty pounds per annum to the schoolmaster, to be raised out of the messuages and part of the lands of the several donors, in several proportions as hereafter followeth under their hands. And for the well ordering thereof they have chosen and elected, seven feoffees who shall have power to put in or remove the school master, to see to the well ordering of the school and scholars, to receive and pay the twenty pounds per annum to the schoolmaster, and to dispose of any other gift or gifts which hereafter may or shall be given for the advancement of learning and education of children? -- see History of Roxbury's Latin School by Charles Dillaway. Samuel left home around 1660, settling in New Haven where he was married in 1662 to Sarah Cooper, the daughter of the manager of the Iron Works. Samuel and Sarah agreed to provide lodging for several men working for the Iron Works and in November 1664 Samuel sued his father-in-law for money he felt had been promised him for boarding the men. The court ruled in his favor -- see New Haven Town Records 2:100. Samuel often testified in court. On 3 January 1664 he testified that "he being at the forge that day complaint was made to Mr. Crane of ye former business and old Goody Pinion came to ye fire and warmed her hands at ye fire and Ralph Russell asked her where her gloves was this cold weather and she said that she had sent up her daughter to that base rogue and rascall and he would let her have noe gloves for he sought the ruine of her and her children". He was called to court again on 7 February 1664 in a case against Robert Pinion for his contempt of authority. Samuel testified that Pinion had said "to Goodwife Potter that he had as good be bitt with a mad dog as snapt by a company of fooles with some other contemptous speeches in reference to authority". Samuel testified against Benjamin Graves on 14 December 1665 and against Samuell Browne on 9 January 1665 "for drunkennes and singing corrupt songs" -- see New Haven Town Records 2:123, 134, 160, 164. Samuel was elected town constable for the Iron Works in 1669 and again in 1676. In December 1678 after complaint was made "of great disorder among boys and youths in ye puplike meeting upon ye sabbath in ye time of worship", the town appointed Samuel "to take some care and pains in ye business" .. and was given "a stick to smite them with" -- see New Haven Town Records 2:240, 345, 379. Samuel was living in Stoney River at least by 19 March 1678/79 when he "on ye behalfe of ye inhabitants of ye east side at Stony River, south end &c propounded to ye towne that they might have lyberty and encouragment from ye towne to set up a village on that side to procure a minister amongst them, they finding it soe difficult generaly and at somtimes many of ye dwellers on that side cannot com over on ye sabbath to ye ordinance at ye towne, and did hope that if ye Lord should succeed such a work among them they should keep ye sabbath and attend ye ordinance without such toile and dificulty as now they are laboring under." Even though "the townsmen had nothing against it" it wasn't until 1704 that the first minister [Samuel's youngest son Jacob] began preaching in East Haven Village -- see Ancient Town Records 1:380. On 26 April 1687 Samuel asked the town for "liberty to set a fulling mill where the forge formerly stood. After much debate the towne granted liberty to the said Hemingway to set up a fulling mill ... provided he make noe damne that shall make a pond to raise the water above two foot deep". Samuel must have changed his mind about the mill; it wasn't until 1709 that the mill was finally built by his sons John and Abraham. In 1691 Samuel's daughter Mary died, probably at the birth of her first child. Two years later his daughter Elizabeth married Nathaniel Finch, the husband of her deceased sister Mary "without her father's consent or proper publication of the banns." The marriage was considered unlawful and Nathaniel was brought before the New Haven Court on 29 November 1693 and fined five pounds. He was forced to sign a 100 pound bond to guarantee his appearance the following spring at the Court of Assistants. Samuel agreed to pay the fine and guaranteed the bond -- see American Genealogist 19:57. On 5 April 1694 the court annulled the marriage, ruling that it was incestuous for a man to marry his wife's sister. The following month Elizabeth's son was born and in 1702 Elizabeth and Samuel were appointed his guardian -- see Crimes and Misdemeanors 3:244-255. Samuel was appointed a Deputy to the General Court on 27 September 1697 -- see New Haven Town Records 3:50, 137. Elizabeth probably lived with her parents until her remarriage the winter of 1705 for on 18 September 1705 when lots were drawn in New Haven, Samuel's household consisted of seven people. In 1707 the Iron Works Village was incorporated as a separate town and renamed East Haven. Samuel became the town clerk in East Haven and kept the town records for a number of years. He was living there at the time of his death in 1711.
Colonial Land Records of Connecticut:
3:80 - Samuel [+ other Stony River committee members] release land to Branford - 1682
New Haven Deed Books: [Samuel is living in Stoney River, New Haven Township]
2:199 - Samuel sells 17 acres of upland to his son in law Thomas Gutsill - 1703
2:199 - Samuel sells 31 acres of upland + 6 acres of meadow to Thomas Gutsill - 1703
2:241 - Samuel sells 5 acres of upland to Samuel Russell - 1704
2:251 - Samuel sells 34 acres of upland + 4 acres of meadow land to John Howe - 1704
2:456 - Samuel [living at the Iron Works] exchanges 4 acres within the Iron Works - 1706
3:63 - Samuel gives his son John his right to build a fulling mill upon Stoney River - 1708
"Samuel. . .settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of his descendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education and refinement. The town records which he kept as clerk for a long time show his admirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of John Cooper, a magistrate and early settler." (New England Families, Vol IV, p 1678, William Cutter, On-Line Genealogy Library database)
"Samuel Hemingway, son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, and the father of Abigail (wife of Joseph Holt), was a member of the Roxbury church, and one of the largest taxpayers and land owners in Roxbury. He was born June 1636 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. March 23, 1662, he married at New Haven, Sarah, the daughter of John Coooper. Samuel, who settled in New Haven and later moved to East Haven, was a very busy man and influential citizen. He was owner of the Grist Mill about 1681 and twenty-five years later his son established the Fullin Mill. He served his town in many and varied capacities; such as settling boundary questions, securing mill grants, revising village records, as town clerk performing minor duties. He was a neat and handsome penman and was rated the third richest man in town." (The First Three Generations of Holts in America, pp 237-237, Emily Holt Durkee, Internet)
"In 1662, Samuel Heminway appeared and obtained land for a home lot, which was not far from the furnace" [NOTE: furnace is the Iron Works]: p 28: 2 July 1681 appication to build a grist mill "at the furnace Dame" of the iron works -- denied. 25 years later sons John and Abraham, on 23 Aug 1706, received a grant from Branford: p 35: "At this meeting [29 March 1684] John Thompson, Matthew Moulthrop, and Samuel Heminway were chosen selectment. Then in August, John Thompson and Samuel Heminway were chosen collectors of rates, and George Parde constable." (East Haven Register, Stephen Dodd, p 14, On-Line Genealogy Library database)
2nd cousin 9 times removed of Gordon Fisher
Hewes, which shows their son Joshua Hemingwayrather than Isaac Hemingway as great-grandfather of Rutherford B.Hayes.
"Samuel, son of Ralph Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, in June, 1636.The name is also spelled by various branches of the family Hemingway,Hemmingway, Hemenway and Hemmenway. He settled in New Haven,Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of hisdescendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education andrefinement. The town records which he kept for a long time show hisadmirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of JohnCooper, a magistrate and early settler. Children: Sarah, born July26, 1663; Samuel, December 13, 1665; Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah,September 14, 1670; Abigail, February 16, 1672; John, May 29, 1675;Abraham, December 3, 1677, mentioned below [under Abraham (1)HEMINGWAY]; Isaac (twin), December 6, 1683; Jacob (twin) December 6,1683, first student in Yale College, B.A. 1704, and pastor of thechurch in East Haven for fifty years."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p 167813
Sources:
1) Melissa Stewart Database, 31 Oct 2001
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:74080 0&id=I34917396
File Number: 1VC7-J6W
Samuel settled in New Haven, CT, and later at East Haven 1660 and was town clerk for a long time. His signature is available at the CT State Archives Ecclesiastical 1:70b 1680.
Partial Source: Ralph Hemmenway of Roxbury, Mass., 1634 : and his descendants, by Clair Alonzo Newton; Naperville, Ill.: unknown, 1932-43, 444 pgs.
Tuttle quotes the Rev. Mr. Haven saying that Samuel Hemingway "was probably the richest and most influential man in the village of East Haven, CT." He first settled in New Haven, CT and then moved the East Haven in 1660. He was the town clerk for a long time. His signature is at the Connecticut State Archives (Ecclesiastical 1:706 1680)
SAMUEL HEMINGWAY (II), son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, June, 1636, and died in East Haven, Connecticut, September 20, 1711. He married, March 23, 1661-2, Sarah, daughter of John Cooper of New Haven, Connecticut. (Cooper IV.) Samuel Hemingway settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and removed to East Haven in 1660. That he was a man of considerable education and refinement is shown in the town records which he kept for many years, his 2nd cousin 9 times removed of Gordon Fisher
"John Cooper, the father of this Hannah Cooper, removed from New Haven to East Haven, about the time the iron works established there, of which he was an agent. He had two daughters, Hannah and Sarah. Hannah married John Potter; and Sarah, a year later, married Samuel Hemingway; and so both were connected with the Holt family. .....Samuel Hemingway, son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, and the father of Abigail (wife of Joseph Holt [see under his name]), was a member of the Roxbury church, and one of the largest taxpayers andland owners in Roxbury. He was born June 1636 at Roxbury,Nassachusetts. March 23, 1662 he married at New Haven, Sarah, the daughter of John Cooper. Samuel, who settled in New Haven and later moved to East Haven, was a very busy man and influential citizen. Hewas owner of the Grist Mill about 1681 and twenty-five years later hissons established the Fulling Mill. He served his town in many and varied capacities; such as settling boundary questions, securing millgrants, revising village records, as town clerk performing minor duties. He was a neat and handsome penman and was rated the third richest man in town. He had 10 poles of land valued at 147 lbs., and he had 69 1/2 acres. Jacob Hemingway, the brother of Abigail, has been mentioned as pastor and teacher. In the fifth generations we find the name of Merit Heminway [sic] of Watertown, Conn. --- who held to the old way of spelling the name --- born in 1800. He has made the name familiar to every householder in the Union, on spools of silk.The old house where he was born is still standing on Main Street near the Branford line. One record states that Isaac Hemingway, a brother of Jacob and Abigail, was the great grandfather of President Rutherford B. Hayes."
--- Emily Holt Durkee in *The First Three Generations of Holts in America*, no date, p 237-8
The last statement disagrees with the line shown elsewhere from Ralph Hemingway and Elizabeth Hewes, which shows their son Joshua Hemingway rather than Isaac Hemingway as great-grandfather of Rutherford B.Hayes.
"Samuel, son of Ralph Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, in June, 1636.The name is also spelled by various branches of the family Hemingway,Hemmingway, Hemenway and Hemmenway. He settled in New Haven,Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of hisdescendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education andrefinement. The town records which he kept for a long time show hisadmirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of JohnCooper, a magistrate and early settler. Children: Sarah, born July26, 1663; Samuel, December 13, 1665; Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah,September 14, 1670; Abigail, February 16, 1672; John, May 29, 1675;Abraham, December 3, 1677, mentioned below [under Abraham (1)HEMINGWAY]; Isaac (twin), December 6, 1683; Jacob (twin) December 6,1683, first student in Yale College, B.A. 1704, and pastor of thechurch in East Haven for fifty years."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p 1678
"SAMUEL [HEMINWAY], married Sarah Cooper, 1662. They had Sarah, July26, 1663, who married Thomas Goodsell, 1684; Samuel, Dec. 13, 1665;Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah, Sept. 14, 1670, who married John Howe,jun.; Abigail, Feb. 16, 1672, who married Joseph Holt, 1706; John, May29, 1675; Abraham, Dec. 3, 1677; Isaac [died young] and Jacob, Dec. 6,1683."
--- Stephen Dodd, *The East-Haven Register*, 1824, p 124. On p 123there is a note which states, among other things: "The name HEMINWAY, in East-Haven, is HEMENWAY, and HEMMENWAY in Massachusetts. But in England it is HEMMINGWAY, which is the original and real name." From same, p 14: "John Cooper came to Stoney-river [at East Haven CT] about the time of the building of the Iron works [abt 1657], of which he appears to have been the agent and overseer. (P) In 1662, Samuel Heminway appeared and obtained land for a home lot, which was not far from the furnace." Also, p 28, Dodd quotes an application dated 2 Jul 1681 by Samuel Hemingway for land on which to build a grist-mill "at the Furnace Dam" of the iron works. This was denied. However, the sons John and Abraham of Samuel got such a grant 25 years later from the town of Branford, 23 Aug 1706. And, p 35: "At this meeting [29Mar 1684] John Thompson, Matthew Moulthrop, and Samuel Heminway were chosen selectmen. And in August, John Thompson and Samuel Heminway were chosen collectors of rates, and George Pardee constable."
Samuel was born and raised in Roxbury, the second but oldest surviving of seven children. He was probably educated at Roxbury's Latin School which John Elliot founded in 1645. Samuel's father was one of the original donors who helped support the school: "Whereas, the inhabitants of Roxburie, in consideration of their religious care of posterity, have taken into consideration how necessary the education of their children in literature will be to fit them for public service, both in church and commonwealth, in succeeding ages. They therefore have unanimously consented and agreed to erect a free school in the said Towne of Roxburie, and to allow twenty pounds per annum to the schoolmaster, to be raised out of the messuages and part of the lands of the several donors, in several proportions as hereafter followeth under their hands. And for the well ordering thereof they have chosen and elected, seven feoffees who shall have power to put in or remove the school master, to see to the well ordering of the school and scholars, to receive and pay the twenty pounds per annum to the schoolmaster, and to dispose of any other gift or gifts which hereafter may or shall be given for the advancement of learning and education of children? -- see History of Roxbury's Latin School by Charles Dillaway. Samuel left home around 1660, settling in New Haven where he was married in 1662 to Sarah Cooper, the daughter of the manager of the Iron Works. Samuel and Sarah agreed to provide lodging for several men working for the Iron Works and in November 1664 Samuel sued his father-in-law for money he felt had been promised him for boarding the men. The court ruled in his favor -- see New Haven Town Records 2:100. Samuel often testified in court. On 3 January 1664 he testified that "he being at the forge that day complaint was made to Mr. Crane of ye former business and old Goody Pinion came to ye fire and warmed her hands at ye fire and Ralph Russell asked her where her gloves was this cold weather and she said that she had sent up her daughter to that base rogue and rascall and he would let her have noe gloves for he sought the ruine of her and her children". He was called to court again on 7 February 1664 in a case against Robert Pinion for his contempt of authority. Samuel testified that Pinion had said "to Goodwife Potter that he had as good be bitt with a mad dog as snapt by a company of fooles with some other contemptous speeches in reference to authority". Samuel testified against Benjamin Graves on 14 December 1665 and against Samuell Browne on 9 January 1665 "for drunkennes and singing corrupt songs" -- see New Haven Town Records 2:123, 134, 160, 164. Samuel was elected town constable for the Iron Works in 1669 and again in 1676. In December 1678 after complaint was made "of great disorder among boys and youths in ye puplike meeting upon ye sabbath in ye time of worship", the town appointed Samuel "to take some care and pains in ye business" .. and was given "a stick to smite them with" -- see New Haven Town Records 2:240, 345, 379. Samuel was living in Stoney River at least by 19 March 1678/79 when he "on ye behalfe of ye inhabitants of ye east side at Stony River, south end &c propounded to ye towne that they might have lyberty and encouragment from ye towne to set up a village on that side to procure a minister amongst them, they finding it soe difficult generaly and at somtimes many of ye dwellers on that side cannot com over on ye sabbath to ye ordinance at ye towne, and did hope that if ye Lord should succeed such a work among them they should keep ye sabbath and attend ye ordinance without such toile and dificulty as now they are laboring under." Even though "the townsmen had nothing against it" it wasn't until 1704 that the first minister [Samuel's youngest son Jacob] began preaching in East Haven Village -- see Ancient Town Records 1:380. On 26 April 1687 Samuel asked the town for "liberty to set a fulling mill where the forge formerly stood. After much debate the towne granted liberty to the said Hemingway to set up a fulling mill ... provided he make noe damne that shall make a pond to raise the water above two foot deep". Samuel must have changed his mind about the mill; it wasn't until 1709 that the mill was finally built by his sons John and Abraham. In 1691 Samuel's daughter Mary died, probably at the birth of her first child. Two years later his daughter Elizabeth married Nathaniel Finch, the husband of her deceased sister Mary "without her father's consent or proper publication of the banns." The marriage was considered unlawful and Nathaniel was brought before the New Haven Court on 29 November 1693 and fined five pounds. He was forced to sign a 100 pound bond to guarantee his appearance the following spring at the Court of Assistants. Samuel agreed to pay the fine and guaranteed the bond -- see American Genealogist 19:57. On 5 April 1694 the court annulled the marriage, ruling that it was incestuous for a man to marry his wife's sister. The following month Elizabeth's son was born and in 1702 Elizabeth and Samuel were appointed his guardian -- see Crimes and Misdemeanors 3:244-255. Samuel was appointed a Deputy to the General Court on 27 September 1697 -- see New Haven Town Records 3:50, 137. Elizabeth probably lived with her parents until her remarriage the winter of 1705 for on 18 September 1705 when lots were drawn in New Haven, Samuel's household consisted of seven people. In 1707 the Iron Works Village was incorporated as a separate town and renamed East Haven. Samuel became the town clerk in East Haven and kept the town records for a number of years. He was living there at the time of his death in 1711.
Colonial Land Records of Connecticut:
3:80 - Samuel [+ other Stony River committee members] release land to Branford - 1682
New Haven Deed Books: [Samuel is living in Stoney River, New Haven Township]
2:199 - Samuel sells 17 acres of upland to his son in law Thomas Gutsill - 1703
2:199 - Samuel sells 31 acres of upland + 6 acres of meadow to Thomas Gutsill - 1703
2:241 - Samuel sells 5 acres of upland to Samuel Russell - 1704
2:251 - Samuel sells 34 acres of upland + 4 acres of meadow land to John Howe - 1704
2:456 - Samuel [living at the Iron Works] exchanges 4 acres within the Iron Works - 1706
3:63 - Samuel gives his son John his right to build a fulling mill upon Stoney River - 1708
"Samuel. . .settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of his descendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education and refinement. The town records which he kept as clerk for a long time show his admirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of John Cooper, a magistrate and early settler." (New England Families, Vol IV, p 1678, William Cutter, On-Line Genealogy Library database)
"Samuel Hemingway, son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, and the father of Abigail (wife of Joseph Holt), was a member of the Roxbury church, and one of the largest taxpayers and land owners in Roxbury. He was born June 1636 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. March 23, 1662, he married at New Haven, Sarah, the daughter of John Coooper. Samuel, who settled in New Haven and later moved to East Haven, was a very busy man and influential citizen. He was owner of the Grist Mill about 1681 and twenty-five years later his son established the Fullin Mill. He served his town in many and varied capacities; such as settling boundary questions, securing mill grants, revising village records, as town clerk performing minor duties. He was a neat and handsome penman and was rated the third richest man in town." (The First Three Generations of Holts in America, pp 237-237, Emily Holt Durkee, Internet)
"In 1662, Samuel Heminway appeared and obtained land for a home lot, which was not far from the furnace" [NOTE: furnace is the Iron Works]: p 28: 2 July 1681 appication to build a grist mill "at the furnace Dame" of the iron works -- denied. 25 years later sons John and Abraham, on 23 Aug 1706, received a grant from Branford: p 35: "At this meeting [29 March 1684] John Thompson, Matthew Moulthrop, and Samuel Heminway were chosen selectment. Then in August, John Thompson and Samuel Heminway were chosen collectors of rates, and George Parde constable." (East Haven Register, Stephen Dodd, p 14, On-Line Genealogy Library database)
2nd cousin 9 times removed of Gordon Fisher
Hewes, which shows their son Joshua Hemingwayrather than Isaac Hemingway as great-grandfather of Rutherford B.Hayes.
"Samuel, son of Ralph Hemingway, was born in Roxbury, in June, 1636.The name is also spelled by various branches of the family Hemingway,Hemmingway, Hemenway and Hemmenway. He settled in New Haven,Connecticut, and later at East Haven, 1660, where many of hisdescendants have lived. He was a man of considerable education andrefinement. The town records which he kept for a long time show hisadmirable handwriting. He married, in 1662, Sarah, daughter of JohnCooper, a magistrate and early settler. Children: Sarah, born July26, 1663; Samuel, December 13, 1665; Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah,September 14, 1670; Abigail, February 16, 1672; John, May 29, 1675;Abraham, December 3, 1677, mentioned below [under Abraham (1)HEMINGWAY]; Isaac (twin), December 6, 1683; Jacob (twin) December 6,1683, first student in Yale College, B.A. 1704, and pastor of thechurch in East Haven for fifty years."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p 167813