Samuel WETHERELL

  General Notes:

Samuel's name occurs, along with several other residents of Hanover, on the muster roll of Capt. John Loring's co., encamped at Fort Edward, July 25, 1756, during the French War. He is also listed in the return of Thomas Clapp's regiment (of Scituate), July 20, 1756, in the expedition to Crown Point. In 1759, he served from Hanover in Abel Keen's co., of which Thomas Doty was Col., for Canada. In 1785, Bette Bailey was paid "for keeping Samuel Witherell and wife, and for the cost of the funeral, "prob his wife's". On March 13, 1786, the selectmen of Hanover and Dea. Timothy Robbins were chosen a committee "to agree with Mr. Samuel IV Witherell to maintain his father during his natural life, by the lump or by the week, as they shall agree, and pay him out of the town's money."

Samuel married Rebecca FERRIS on 19 Apr 1736 in Hanover, MA. (Rebecca FERRIS was born in Hanover, MA and died about 1785 in Hanover, MA.)