Individual Details
Samuel Doolittle
(7 Jul 1665 - 25 Sep 1717)
Events
| Birth | 7 Jul 1665 | New Haven, New Haven, CT | |||
| Marriage | 20 Nov 1688 | Middletown, Middlesex, Ct - Mary Cornwall |  | ||
| Event | 1691 | | |||
| Death | 25 Sep 1717 | Middletown, Middlesex, Ct | | ||
| Alt name | Samuel Dolittle |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Cornwall (1666 - 1742) |
| Child | Jonathan Doolittle (1689 - 1759) |
| Child | Samuel Doolittle (1691 - 1736) |
| Child | Mary Doolittle (1693 - ) |
| Child | Abraham Doolittle (1695 - 1733) |
| Child | Abigail Doolittle (1697 - ) |
| Child | Martha Doolittle (1699 - 1779) |
| Child | Hannah Doolittle (1700 - 1738) |
| Child | Thankful Doolittle (1702 - 1750) |
| Child | Joseph Doolittle (1704 - 1777) |
| Child | Nathaniel Doolittle (1706 - 1752) |
| Child | Esther Doolittle (1709 - ) |
| Spouse | Eunice ( - ) |
| Father | Sergeant Abraham Doolittle (1620 - 1690) |
| Mother | Abigail Moss (1642 - 1710) |
| Sibling | Joseph Doolittle (1667 - 1733) |
| Sibling | Abigail Doolittle (1668 - 1690) |
| Sibling | Ebenezer Doolittle (1672 - 1711) |
| Sibling | Mary Doolittle (1674 - ) |
| Sibling | Daniel Doolittle (1675 - 1755) |
| Sibling | Theophilus Doolittle (1678 - 1740) |
Notes
Marriage
They had eleven children, all of whom lived to adulthoodEvent
moved from Wallingford to Middletown, CT around 1691.Death
Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records(Hartford District),Charles W. Manwaring,Hartford, 1902, Vol 2, p 190Samuel DOOLITTLE, Middletown. Invt. £364-06-03. Taken 28 October 1714, by Israhiah WETMORE, Samuel GIPSON & John WARNER.Will (not dated): I, Samuel DOOLITTLE, of Middletown, being weak andlow, brought by sickness and sore pain, do make this my last will andtestament: I do will 1-3 part of the moveable estate to my dear wife,and this eastern room, with the back room, with free gress and progressin the lower room for washing and baking, and answerable cellar room,during her life or widowhood. Item. I give to my son Jonathan my homelot with the house and barn, to say, the east end of this lot beginningat the Boggy Meadow River and running up westward to the first brookbelow the orchard where the bridge stands; also I give to him 4 acresof boggy meadow which I bought of Ebenezer HUBBARD, only my will isthat after the apprizement of this estate above named with the rest ofmy whole estate, that Jonathan shall have his double portion with hisbrothers and sisters, and what overplus there is after the prisallJonathan shall pay to his sisters. Further, my will is that my wifeshall have free liberty of passage in and out of her part in the house,also a garden spot; and that my daughter Mary shall have the loom andtackling belonging to it as part of her portion, and further to haveliberty of that place in the house where the loom stands so long as shelives single. Further, my will is that all my children, Jonathan onlyexcepted (being before mentioned), shall have an equal share of mywhole estate, real and pesonal, both in this town and in Wallingford,only that my sons shall have liberty to keep all the lands if they canmake payment to their sisters in some short convenient time after theycome of age to receive their portion. My wife and son Jonathan to beexecutors. Further, that Thomas ALLYN shall be overseer, to be helpfulto my wife & Jonathan.Samuel DOOLITTLE, L.S.Witness:Thomas ALLEN,Isaac LANEBenjamin CORNWALL.Court Record, Page 219 -- 1 Nov 1714: Will exhibited by Mary & Jonathan DOOLITTLE, executors. Proven.Page 225 - 6 Dec 1714: This court appoint Mary DOOLITTLE to be guardianto Thankful DOOLITTLE, age 12 years, Joseph 10 years, Nathaniel 8years, Esther 6 years, children of Samuel DOOLITTLE, late decd.Page 14 (Vol IX) -- 1 May 1716: Upon the motion of Jonathan DOOLITTLE,this court appoint Israhiah WETMORE, Joseph ROCKWELL & SamuelGIPSON to set out the estate to the legatees, according to the will.Dist. per File: 4 Jun 1717: To the widow, to Jonathan, Samuel, Abraham,Nathaniel, & Joseph DOOLITTLE, to Mary, the wife of Solomon GOFFE,to Abigail, Martha, Hannah, Thankfull & Esther DOOLITTLE. ByIsrahiah WETMORE, Joseph ROCKWELL, & Samuel GIPSON.Page 34 -- 4 Jun 1717: Report of the distributors.