Dow, Samuel (1755-1835)

Name:

Dow, Samuel (1755-1835)

Title:

Private, Corporal, then Sargeant, American Revolution, 1775-6
Surveyor of Lumber, Town of Stoddard, 1803
Member, School Squadron, Town of Stoddard, 1803, 1804.

Born:

12/21/1755

Birthplace:

Pelham, NH

Died:

06/03/1835

Death Location:

Stoddard, NH

Residence:

Pelham, NH 1755, 1786
Nottingham West, NH 1775
Tyngsborough, MA 1786
Chelmsford, MA 1790
Stoddard, NH 1800-1835

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Housewright, 1789
Carpenter
Joiner

Father:

Dow, Samuel

Mother:

Rebecca

Spouse:

Kimball, Eunice (1756-1853), November 29, 1775

Children:

Samuel (c.1776-)
Eunice, born 1778-; m. Cyrus Alexander 1799)
John, born 1780; died 1871
Daniel, born October 6, 1783; died August 28, 1860
Asa, born January 15, 1786, Pelham
Sally (1788-)
Peggy, born February 6, 1790; died Julty 27, 1881, Stoddard
James, born August 3, 1792
Elizabeth (1794-)
William (1797-)
Sophia, born 1800; died 1885; m. Samuel Smith; several children, lived in Londonderry, N.H.)
Luther, born July 16, 1803; died April 1, 1805

Notes:

Robert P. Dow, The Book of Dow: Genealogical Memoirs of the Descendants of Henry Dow 1637, Thomas Dow 1639 and Others of the Name, Immigrants to America during Colonial Times, Also the Allied Family of Nudd. (Claremont, New Hampshire: Robert P. Dow, 1929), 593, 595.

Isaiah Gould, History of Stoddard, Cheshire County, N. H., From the Time of Its Incorporation in 1774 to 1854, A Period of Eighty Years, With Some Sketches from Its First Settlement in 1768. (Marlboro, New Hampshire: W. L. Metcalf, 1897), 37, 43, 59, 108, 122.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

Death Notice, The Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, NH, June 19, 1835, 3.