Samuel MATHER

1684 - 1725  (41 years)

• Name	Samuel MATHER  [1, 2, 3]
  	Samuel Mather, the second son of Richard who removed from Dorchester to Lyme, was born Jan. 3, 1684, and was but little over four years old when his father died. He was a namesake of his uncle, the Rev. Samuel Mather of Windsor, Conn. His father had bought a farm the year preceding his death, and Samuel as he grew up assisted in its cultivation. As he was not married until he was forty-one, we may assume that he was either very bashful or not very successful in his business or his love-making. He finally on New Year's day, 1712, found a Saybrook bride in the person of Deborah Champion, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Brockway) Champion, the first settler of the name in Saybrook. They were blessed with four daughters and one son, our lineal ancestor, who was called Richard after his grandfather, the first of the family in Lyme. He married Deborah Ely. Samuel Mather died in Lyme, July 17, 1725, having been married but thirteen years. [1]
  Birth	3 Jan 1684  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Jul 1725	Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I101654	Main Tree
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard MATHER,   b. 20 Dec 1653, Dorchester, Massachusetts d. 17 Aug 1688, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Catharine WISE,   b. 26 Apr 1657
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	1 Jul 1680  [1, 3]
  Family ID	F372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deborah CHAMPION,   b. 26 Apr 1697
  Marriage	1 Jan 1712  [1, 2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Richard MATHER,   b. 22 Dec 1712, Lyme, Connecticut  [Birth] + 2. Mary MATHER,   b. 14 Nov 1715   d. Abt Jun 1784, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA (Age 68 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2021

  
  

• Sources

  [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley. [S2321] Ruth Lee Griswold, A Narrative of the Griswold Family from Thomas Griswold, Esq., of Wethersfield and Guilford 1695. [S12200] Horace E. Mather, Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather.