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Maj Samuel (2) APPLETON (b. Abt. 02 Feb 1625, d. 15 May 1696)
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"SAMUEL, bapt. Feb. 2, 1624/25, in Little Waldingfield; m. (1) HannahPaine; m. (2) in Newbury Dec. 8 1656, Mary Oliver; d. in Ipswich May15, 1696, after a career of great civil and military distinction."
--- Walter Goodwin Davis, *Massachusetts and Maine Families*,1916-1963 (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD 1996) v 1, p 53
"SAMUEL APPLETON, son of Samuel Appleton [SAMUEL (1) of this database]... and Judith Everard ..., was baptized in Waldingfield, SuffolkCounty, England, February 2, 1624-5, and died in Ipswich, Mass., May15, 1696. [Footnote:See *Appleton Memorial*, 1850, and *AppletonGen.*, 1873.] Major Samuel Appleton, both in civil and militaryaffairs, was a man of prominence in the Colony.He was Townsman in1662, Deputy from Ipswich to the General Court in 1668, 1669-1671,1673, 1675, 1676-1681 (except 1678), Assistant or Magistrate,1682-1686, and a member of the first council under the charter ofWilliam and Mary in 1692.He was a Justice of the Quarterly andGeneral Sessions Courts, etc.During the progress of King Philip'sWar in 1675, he was commissioned Captain of a company of 100 men toproceed to the frontier towns on the Connecticut River; and on October4, of the above year, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of theforces operating in that section of Massachusetts.By his "industry,skill and courage," says Hubbard, the narrator of the Indian wars,"those towns were preserved from running the same fate with the rest,wholly, or in part, so lately turned into ashes."On October 19, andattack was made upon Hatfield by seven or eight hundred Indians, whowere repulsed after a sharp contest.Major Appleton's sergeant fellmortally wounded by his side, and the brave commander himself narrowlyescaped deathy.In December, with five hundred men under his command,he served as Major in the expedition against the Narragansett Indians.A full account of his services in King Philip's War may be found inBodge's "Soldiers in King Philip's War," pp. 142 to 164.(P) Duringthe rule of Sir Edmund Andros, Mr. Appleton was especially a mark ofpersecution because of his persistent refusal to submit to thearbitrary use of power exercised by the Governor-General.InSeptember, 1687, a warrant was issued for is arrest, and in October hewas grought before the Governor and his Council.Refusing to give therequired bond, he was ordered, November 30, to be imprisoned in theBoston Jail, where he was confined until March 7, 1688. (P) Of MajorAppleton, Mr. Felt, in his "History of Ipswich," says:--- "He wasRepresentative to the General Court, Member of the Governor's Counciland Judge.In 1675 he was ordered to keep 500 men for the defense ofthe frontier twons at the west against the Indians, etc. ..... Hisdiversified and complicated duties as warrior, legislator and judge,he ably and faithfully discharged.(P) The first wife of SamuelAppleton was HANNAH PAINE, daughter of William Paine of Ipswich, Mass......, whom he married in Ipswich, April 2, 1651.She died about1655, and he married, 2nd, December 8, 1656, Mary, daughter of JohnOliver of Newbury, Mass.She died February 15, 1697."(P) Childrenof Samuel Appleton:I. Hannah, m. William Downes.II. Judith ...[DIRECT ANCESTOR, see under her name]. III. Samuel, b. 1654; m.Elizabeth, dau. of William Whittingham, and d. Oct. 30, 1725.Hiswid. m. 1726, Rev. Edward Payson of Rowley.IV. John, b. 1660; m.1st, 1689, Rebecca, dau. John Ruch, and 2nd, wid. Dutch.He d. 1724.V. Isaac, b. 1664; m. Priscilla, dau. of Thomas Baker of Topsfield.VI. Joanna, m. Nathaniel Whipple.VII. Oliver, b. 1676; m. Sarah, andd. 1759."
--- William F. J. Boardman, *The Ancestry of William Francis JosephBoardman, Hartford, Connecticut*, 1906, p 292-293.This SAMUEL wasmarried twice:"The first wife of Samuel Appleton was HANNAH PAINE,daughter of William Paine of Ipswich, Mass. ..., who he married inIpswich, April 2, 1651.She died about 1655, and he married, 2nd,December 8, 1656, Mary, daughter of John Oliver of Newbury, Mass.Shedied February 15, 1697."Since JUDITH was born about 1653, this makesher mother HANNAH PAINE.
"(X) Major Samuel (2) Appleton, son of Samuel (1) Appleton, was bornat Little Waldingfield, England, 1624, and came with his father to NewEngland.He was lieutenant and deputy to the general court in 1668;and deputy with his brother John, in 1669-71, and again in 1673 and1675.In King Philip's war he was commissioned captain, by orderdated September 24, 1675, was sent to assist the Connecticut rivertowns, and when Major Pynchon resigned, Appleton succeeded to thecommand of the colonial forces in that section.He repulsed an attackon Hatfield by about eight hundred Indians.Much of his officialcorrespondence in his own handwriting is to be found in the archives.In December, 1675, at Dedham he took command of six companies of footand one of horse and joined General Winslow's forces for the attack onNarragansett.In October, 1676, he was appointed to command anexpedition to Piscataqua, but declined it.In 1681 he took his seatin the council as an assistant and continued until the evil days ofGovernor Andros, when he was proscribed among those "personsfactiously and seditiously inclined, and disaffected to his majesty'sgovernment," and a warrant issued for his arrest.He escaped for atime by taking refuge in the home of his son at Lynn, but in October,1687, he was brought before the governor and council and ordered "tostand committed until he give bond in the sum of 1,000 pounds toappear at the next general court at Salem to answer what shall beobjected against him, and in the meantime to be of good behavior."Herefused to give the bond and was committed to the jail in Boston andkept a prisoner from November to March.He was never tried on thecomplaint and it is said that he had the satisfaction, after the fallof Andros, of handing the haughty governor into the boat whichconveyed him to prison in the Castle.He died May 15, 1696, and hisgravestone is still preserved at Ipswich.(P) He married (first)April 2, 1651, Hannah, daughter of William Paine, of Ipswich.Hemarried (second) December 8, 1656, Mary Oliver, who was then butsixteen years old, daughter of John Oliver of Newbury.She diedFebruary 15, 1698.Children by first wife:Hannah, born January 9,1652;Judith, August 19, 1653;Samuel, November 3, 1654.Childrenby second wife: John, born 1660;Isaac, mentioned below;Joanna;Joseph, June 5, 1674; Oliver, June, 1676;Mary, June, 1676;Oliver,1677;Mary, about October 20, 1679.The records also give anotherwife, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary (Lawrence) Whittingham."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p177-178
SAMUEL APPLETON, the second son of Samuel I., was born at Waldingfieldin 1624, and came to New England with his father, at the age of elevenyears.He was Deputy to the General Court, under the title ofLietuenant Samuel Appleton, in 1668; and in 1669-71, in company withhis brother, Captain John; again in 1673 and 1675 by himself.(P) Inthis last year, the Indian war, called Philip's war, broke out.Onthe Massachusetts Files is the following record, 1675: -- "On 24thSeptember ordered, that a commission be issued forth to Captain SamuelAppleton, to command a foot company of 100 men."His destination wasthe frontier towns on the Connecticut River, where Captain Lathrop'sCompany was destroyed on the 18th September.On the 4th October hewas appointed "Commander in Chief, of the army in those parts, bywhose industry, skill, and courage," says Hubbard, his neighbor,"those towns were preserved from running the same fate with the rest,wholly or in part so lately turned into ashes."This appointment wasin pursuance of the request of Major Pynchon, to resign the chiefcommand, in consequence of the loss of his barns, &c., a short timepreviously, in the conflagration of Springfield...... On the 19thOctoberm a violent assault was made upon Hatfield by 700 or 800Indians, who were repulsed after a sharp conflict, as described byHubbard, who says, "Major Appleton;s sargent was mortally wounded justby his side, another bullet passing through his own hair, by thatwhisper telling him that death was very near, but did no other harm."There are a number of letters on file in the Secretary's office,Massachusetts, bearing date from the 12th October to the 20thNovember, giving a detail of his operations in that quarter, hisdifficulties with the Connecticut officers, and a correspondence withthe Council of Connecticut.They are written in a beautifulchirography, with great precision of style, and are full of the piousspirit of the day, ..... (P) After placeing small garrisons in thetowns on the river, he prepared for the expedition then fitting outfor the Narragansett country, in which he had the command of theMassachusetts forces, consisting of six companies of foot and a troopof horse, in all 527 men.These were placed under his command atDedham, December 9th, 1675; and with the Plymouth and Connecticuttroops, making up the number of 1000 men, were under the command ofGeneral Winslow. Nothing could show the alarm of New England, at thedeeply organized plan of Philip, more than the undertaking thisexpedition at this severe season of the year.In the bloody action of19th December, 1675, and the capture of the Narragansett fort,Massachusetts lost 110 men, killed and wounded. The troops returned toBoston, and Major Appleton seems then to have left the service.(P)In October, 1676, he was appointed to proceed to Piscataqua, with thefull command of an expedition, then fitting out for that place, but heseems to have declined the appointment.(P) He was chosen to theCouncil as Assistant in 1681, in which office he continued until theappointment of Sir Edmund Andros as Governor-General in 1686. InEdward Randolph's letter giving the characters of the leading men ofMassachusetts, he is placed amongst the *factious*; in other words,the supporters of the rights of the colonists.On the deposition ofSir Edmund Andros, his name appears in the Council, called to theProvisional Government of the Colony.He was of the Council named inthe Charter of William and Mary, in 1692.(P) He did not escape thepersecution of Sir Edmund Andros and his tools, probably on account ofthe freedom of speech, in which he denounced his arbitrary assumptionof power.On the 19th September, 1687, three days after the order forthe arrest of the selectmen of Ipswich, warrants were issued for thearrest of Dudley Bradstreet of Andover, Samuel Appleton of Ipswich,and Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, as "persons fatiously andseditiously inclined, and disaffected to his Majesty's government."[Footnote: "The arrest of these gentlemen on a warrant specifying noillegal act, but simply as factious and evil disposed persons, wouldcertainly appear the most high-handed act of arbitrary powerperpetrated by Sir Edmund Andros, and only equalled by those of hismaster, King James."]On the 3rd and 5th October, two other specialwarrants were issued for the apprehension of Samuel Appleton, bu whichit appears that he secreted himself, probably at the house of his sonat Lynn.It was doubtless on this occasion that the scene occurred,referred to in Lewis's history of Lynn, (1st edition,) where he isrepresented as addressing the people from a rocky eminence, near theLynn print and bleach works, which still goes by the name ofAppleton's pulpit.(P) At length, on the 19th October, he was broughtbefore the Governor and Council, by Thomas Larkin, Messenger, and"ordered to stand committed until he give bond in the sum of onethousand pounds to appear at the next Superior Court, at Salem, toanswer what shall be objected against him, and in the mean time to beof good behaviour."This bond he refused to give; whereupon, at aCouncil on the 30th November, he was ordered to be imprisoned inBoston jail.How long he remained in prison is not known.[Footnote:"Since the above was written, the editor is informed by Mr. Felt, thehistorian of Ipswich, that he finds amongst his memoranda thefollowing:-- "Major Samuel Appleton was kept in prison till theSupreme Court at Salem, March 7, 1688, when by giving bond for #1000[pounds] to appear at the next Court to sit there, and to be ofregular behaviour, and pay unreasonable charges, he was released.Thebond was continued about six months longer, though nothing appearedagainst him."Mr. Felt has not noted the source whence the above wasobtained, but from his well known accuracy, it may be considered asprobably authentic.(P) The Superior Court had been newlyestablished, in place of the old Court of Assistants, under theauthority granted to Sir Edmund Andros; the judges were appointed byhim, and were ready to carry out his arbitrary measures.It would,however, be no impeachment of Major Appleton's consistency, inrefusing obedience to the arbitrary and illegal warrant of Sir Edmund,that he should yield to the requisition of a court of law, howevercorrupt it might be.This short lived Superior Court fell with thedeposition of Andros.There are no existing records of itsproceedings."]So far as appears, the severe measures of theGovernment subdued all others to the footstool of Sir Edmund; butMajor Appleton was inflexible, and was visited with his vengeance tothe last extremity.The writer was informed by Mr. John Appleton ofCambridge, that it was a tradition in the family, that on theimprisonment of Sir Edmund in 1689, and his confinement at the castle,Major Appleton was allowed the satisfaction of handing him into theboat which conveyed him off.(P) His will is dated April, 1695, andwas proved May 25th, 1696; witnesses, Samuel Phillips, Sr., and EdwardPayson.He divided the land included in the angle between Mill Riverand Mile Brook, embracing the whole original grant, between his foursons.(P) His first wife was Hannah Paine, daughter of William Paineof Ipswich, afterwards of Boston, by whom he had the followingchildren:-- 1. Hannah, m. William Downes, a merchant of Boston, andhad issue, a daughter.2. Judith, m. Samuel Wolcott, of Windsor,Connecticut.He was grandon of Henry, who arrived in America in 1630,and removed to Connecticut.Their children were, --- 1. Samuel; 2.Josiah; 3. Hannah; 4. Sarah; 5. Lucy; 6. Abigail; 7. Elizabeth; 8.Mary. 3. [3rd child o Samuel (2)] Samuel [see under his name]. .....Samuel Appleton's second wife was Mary Oliver, b. 1640, whom hemarried December 8th, 1656, at the age of sixteen.She was daughterof John Oliver of Newbury, who was a deputy in 1637, and died 1642.John Oliver was among those ordered to be disarmed for approving theRemonstrance, alleging the innocence of Mrs. Hutchinson.(JohnOliver's will is in the *N. E. Gen. and His. Register*, No. 11, p.266.)By Mary Oliver, who, dying in 1698, survived him about twoyears, Samuel Appleton had the following children:-- 4. John.5.Major Isaac.6. Oliver[see under their names]. 7. Joannah, m.Nathaniel Whipple and had a son, Appleton, b. 1693."
--- Isaac Appleton Jewett, *Memorial of Samuel Appleton, ofIpswich, Massachusetts*, Boston 1850, p 16-22.
"Captain [Samuel] Appleton is a man that is desirous to do somethingin this day of distress, being very sensible of the cause and peopleof God at stake; and is much to be commended and encouraged; and uponthat account to be preferred, before may that dare not jeopardizetheir lives, in the high places of the field."
--- From a letter of John PYNCHON [q.v., son of Wm] to Gov.Leverett and the Assistants, dated Hadley MA 30 Sep 1675, containingJohn's request that his command of the English troops in western MA beturned over to Samuel; *The Pynchon Papers, ed. Carl Bridenbaugh,collected by Juliette Tomlinson, vol. 1, 1982, p 155-6
"SECOND SAMUEL [APPLETON], 1625-1696.Fifth child of First Samuel;major, militia.Born Little Waldingfield, England; came to Ipswich,Mass., 1636.Officer King Philip's War; jailed for sedition by royalgovernor; early patriot -- escorted royal governor to jail."
--- Louise Hall Tharp, *The Appletons of Beacon Hill*, Boston,1973, p xiii
More About Samuel (2) APPLETON and Hannah PAINE:
Marriage: 02 Apr 1651, Ipswich MA.
Children of Samuel (2) APPLETON and Hannah PAINE are:
- +Judith (5) APPLETON, b. 19 Aug 1653, prob Ipswich MA, d. 19 Feb 1741.