Notes for Samuel Fish: His estate, inherited from his father, John3, was situated between the Mystic River and the northcastern slope of Fort Hill. Near the center of his lands was Pequot Hill, on the northeastern slope of which, between the present highway that runs parallel with it and the river, he erected his house. The old cellar, in the west end of the field belonging to the late Russell Fish, Esq., may still be traced (1872) by a depression in the earth. He was a Capt. in the French and Indian War (1676). He was admitted to the first church at Stonington Apr. 18, 1689. His name appears in patent of New London in 1704, the year prior to the incorporation of Groton. He was the second selectman at Groton on its organization and was reclected to this position for many years. He m., about 1682/83, Sarah Starke, who was b. 1660, dau. of Aaron Starke, Sr. She d. Dec. 11, 1722, and he m. (2) Dorothy (Wheeler) Smith. He d. Feb. 27, 1733. He was a Representative to the Gen. Court of Connecticut in 1706-07-08-12, a man of dignity and influence. He lies buried in the old Packer Burying Ground at Groton. (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~batemanp/pilgrims/test0032.htm#id95)
Samuel Fish and his father, John Fish, each received allotments about 1700 in Voluntown, when the town was set apart for Indian War Volunteers. "... as John Fish had died, Samuel was alloted his father's acreage. In his will, dated Aug. 7, 1730, Samuel bequeathed his own grant to his son Samuel, and divided his father's grant between his sons Moses and Aaron. Two grandsons of Samuel settled on these lands at Voluntown, and there descendants are still owners thereof." [The Fish Families in America by Lester Warren Fish, 1948, p. 253, 265, 269. . - via http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/l/Katherine-T-Walter/GENE19-0024.html]
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Samuel Fish (b. 1656, d. Feb 27, 1732/33)
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