Samuel PADDOCK

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Benjamin Bangs wrote in his diary: "May 1, 1743 Sam'l Paddock got home from ye Spainards where he was taken some time ago and carried to Cuba". "May 7, 1743 I shipt to go with Samm'l Paddock whaling in a bumpkin sloop, fitted out by Esq. Paine." "July 11, 1743 I began work at home. Capt. Paddock sailed out again." "April 24-25 1743 we came out of ye Cape in company with sam'l Paddock - came through ye sound together" (Bangs Fam Gen, 5,7).

Samuel Paddock served the East Precinct parish of Yarmouth (now Dennis) as assessor from 1752 through 1757. On 17 March 1757 he and Christopher Crowell were chosen to repair the meeting house "as they think proper".

Administration for the estate of Capt. Samuel Paddock, of Yarmouth yeoman, was granted 21 September 1757 to Thomas Winslow. Th estate was inventoried on 7 December 1757 and included one piece of woodland, one piece of meadow, a barn, and "One Sloop called the Fanny with her boat" and totaled L173.10s.5d. Guardianships for his minor children, Mary, Samuel, and Judah, were given to his widow Thankful Paddock of Yarmouth, 28 September and28 October 1757. Thomas Winslow submitted an account on 18 September 1761. A few days later Thankful received a balance from him of L385.11s.6d. and discharged Thomas as administrator and from any further business for her children (Barnstable Co PR, 7:487-89, 9:347, 12:171-72).

On 8 May 1810 the heirs of Lydia Howes, late of yarmouth, being the heirs of her children who are all deceased, sold off their shares in land now in Dennis. the heirs of Lydia's daughter Thankful Paddock were listed as Samuel Paddock, Judah Paddock, and their sister who "they have bought out" (Dennis LR, 2:84)

Family/Spouse: Thankful HOWES. Thankful (daughter of Ebenezer HOWES and Lydia JOYCE) was born on 22 Aug 1711 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; died on 27 Jun 1789; was buried in Paddock Cemetery, East Dennis, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Judah Paddock was a whaler; his gravestone calls him Captain. He was granted 20 shares in the common land division in yarmouth in 1710. He was chosen selectman in 1718 and was the acting parish clerk the same year when the East Precinct was organized. Judah was chosen to moderate the meetings of the East Precinct parish on 22 March 1722/3, 5 November 1723, 11 July 1726, 12 Mae 1727/8, 12 October 1728, 21 January 1728/9, 28 March 1733, 9 january 1734/5, and 1 October 1735. he was chosen as one of the assessors for the parish on 12 March 1727/8 and 13 March 1728/9.

David Alden on 5 June 1718 gave 45 acres each in lots #141 and #156 in Middleborough in the South Purchase for love and affection to his daughter Alice and son-in-law Judah Paddock, of Yarmouth. On 19 December 1723 they sold this land and on 1 July 1730 they sold David Alden's rights in the 16 Shilling Purchase in Middleborough to Noah sprague.

Judah married Alice ALDEN on 05 Dec 1706 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Alice (daughter of David ALDEN and Mary SOUTHWORTH) was born in 1685/6 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Jul 1774 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Paddock Cemetery, East Dennis, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]