Individual Details
Samuel Bemis
(May 1716 - 15 Aug 1793)
Events
| Birth | May 1716 | Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 9 Jan 1739/40 | Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts - Rebekah Newhall |  | | |
| Marriage | 11 Nov 1742 | Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts - Mary Johnson | | ||
| Marriage | 11 Aug 1760 | Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts - Mrs. Mehitable Danniel | | | |
| Residence | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | |||
| Death | 15 Aug 1793 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | ||
| Probate | 3 Sep 1793 | Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts | | |
Families
| Spouse | Rebekah Newhall ( - 1740) |
| Spouse | Mary Johnson (1724 - 1760) |
| Child | Benjamin Bemis (1743 - ) |
| Child | Mary Bemis (1745 - ) |
| Child | Rebekah Bemis (1747 - ) |
| Child | Samuel Bemis (1749 - ) |
| Child | Reuben Bemis (1752 - 1779) |
| Child | Beulah Bemis (1754 - 1829) |
| Spouse | Mrs. Mehitable Danniel ( - 1807) |
| Child | Lydia Bemis (1761 - ) |
| Child | Jonathan Bemis (1765 - 1789) |
| Child | Joel Bemis (1768 - 1813) |
| Child | Judith Bemis (1769 - 1841) |
| Child | Wait Bemis (1772 - 1847) |
| Child | Susannah Bemis (1775 - ) |
| Father | Samuel Bemis (1690 - 1776) |
| Mother | Sarah Barnard (1693 - 1756) |
| Sibling | Edmund Bemis (1720 - 1810) |
| Sibling | William Bemis (1722 - 1801) |
| Sibling | Nathaniel Bemis (1725 - 1784) |
| Sibling | Sarah Bemis (1727 - ) |
| Sibling | Joshua Bemis (1729 - 1789) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Bemis (1732 - 1802) |
| Sibling | Jonas Bemis (1737 - 1790) |
Notes
Marriage
Samuel and Rebekah had no children.Marriage
They were married by Jonathan Chandler, Justice of the Peace.Probate
Benjamin Bemiss, Jonas Bemiss and Reuben Newell were bound to an Administrator Bond in the sum of £3,000 paid to Joseph Dorr, Esq., Judge of Probate. The condition of the bond was that "Benjamin Bemiss who is admitted and hath taken upon himself the trust of the administration on the Estate of Samuel Bemiss late of Spencer in sd. county deceased."Endnotes
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3. Charles L. Newhall, The Record of My Ancestry (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Herald Power Print, 1899), 66; digital image, Google, Google Books (https://books.google.com/ : accessed 23 February 2020.
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6. Systemic History Fund, Vital Records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1903), p. 122.
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10. Systemic History Fund, Vital Records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1903), 122.
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18. Franklin P. Rice, Worcester Births, Marriages and Deaths (Worcester, Massachusetts: The Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1894), 299.
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23. Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1909), 232.
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