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SAMUEL, b. May 18, 1681; m. Oct. 22, 1706, by Pen Townsend, Esq.,
to Rebecca Stone; probably living in 1765 when his son was still
Samuel Spear, Jr. He was a cordwainer by trade, and was living
in Watertown in 1707/8 when he sold a mansion house and
twelve acres in that town to William Blogget.f By 1711 he was
back in Braintree when he and John Stone and their wives sold
another mansion house and nineteen acres in Watertown.: In
1723 he sold a house and eight acres in Braintree to Edmund
Quincy, Rebecca Spear releasing dower.§
————Samuel’s Children:
1. Sarah, b. July 8, 1707, in Watertown.
2. Ebenezer (probably) ; m. in Abinglon Dec. 29, 1731, Jane
Harden. (See Ebenezer, image 363)
3. 'Samuel, b. March 28, 1716, in Braintree; m. (1) May 27,
1742, Rachel Hinckley; m. (2) in Weymouth, int. June
16, 1750, Mary Ford.
4. Daniel, b. Sept. 8, 1720, in Braintree; m. (1) Aug. 11,
1743, Ruth Copeland; m. (2) by 1752 Elizabeth Sil-
vester; d. before Oct. 14, 1774.
5. Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1724, in Braintree.