 1652 - 1713 (61 years)
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| Name |
Samuel Brigham |
| Title |
Captain |
| Birth |
12 Jan 1652 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Library book: History of the Brigham Family |
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| Military Service |
Queen Anne's War |
| During Queen Anne's War, Samuel Brigham was one of the committee to assign the inhabitants of Marlborough to the twenty-six log forts erected. Among these, Samuel Brigham's Garrison, Thomas Brigham's Garrison, and Nathan Brigham's Garrison. In this war Samuel Brigham was the lieutenant under Capt. Thomas Howe. He received a bounty for destroying an Indian. While he was called Captain during the years of the Revolutionary war there is no Revolutionary War marker at his grave |
| Death |
24 Jul 1713 |
Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
| Burial |
Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
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Capt Samuel Brigham Headstone
Capt Samuel Brigham Headstone |
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Samuel Brigham Headstone 2.
The History of the Brigham Family, A Record of Several Thousand Descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1653. By W.I. Tyler Brigham. Published by the Grafton Press, New York, 1907 |
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Captain Samuel Brigham Inscription.
From the book: Marlborough, Massachusetts, Burial Ground Inscriptions, page 25. Published by Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts 1908. |
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Captain Samuel Brigham Headstone Detail.
Captain Samuel Brigham Headstone Detail. |
 Siblings |
4 siblings |
| 1. Thomas Brigham, b. 9 Mar 1641, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 25 Nov 1717, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| 2. Doctor John Brigham, b. 16 Mar 1644, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 16 Sep 1728, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| 3. Mary Brigham, b. Abt 1649, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1676, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| 4. Hannah B Brigham, b. 9 Mar 1649, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 8 Dec 1719, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| Person ID |
I251 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
2 Apr 2018 |
| Father |
Thomas Brigham, b. Abt 1603, Holme Upon, Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, England d. 8 Dec 1653, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 50 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Mercy Hurd, b. Abt 1616, England d. 22 Dec 1693, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 77 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Marriage |
Abt 1641 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
| Family ID |
F87 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elizabeth Howe, b. 5 Apr 1665, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 26 Jul 1739, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 74 years) |
| Marriage |
1683 |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth Brigham, b. 24 Mar 1685, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 13 Oct 1733, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 48 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 2. Hepsibah Brigham, b. 25 Jan 1686, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 17 Oct 1757, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 71 years) |
| | 3. Captain Samuel Brigham, b. 25 Jan 1689, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 24 Apr 1771, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 82 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 4. Lydia Brigham, b. 6 Mar 1691, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 5. Lieutenant Jedediah Brigham, b. 8 Jun 1693, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 21 May 1763, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 69 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| + | 6. Jotham Brigham, b. 23 Dec 1695, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 23 Nov 1759, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 63 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 7. Colonel Timothy Brigham, b. 10 Oct 1698, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1 Oct 1775, Southborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 76 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 8. Charles Brigham, b. 30 Dec 1700, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 17 Mar 1781, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 80 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| | 9. Persis Brigham, b. 10 Jul 1703, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1780 (Age 76 years) |
| | 10. Antipas Brigham, b. 16 Oct 1706, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 23 Apr 1746 (Age 39 years) |
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| Family ID |
F994 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 12 Jan 1652 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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 | Death - 24 Jul 1713 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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 | Burial - - Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Notes |
- Samuel would have been about 3 years old at the time of his mother's marriage to Edmund Rice. The story of his life as far as it can be documented begins in 1673 when he received a 25 acre grant for surveying and laying out the
town of Worcester.
During Queen Anne's War, Samuel Brigham was one of the committee to assign the inhabitants of Marlborough to the twenty-six log forts erected. Among these, Samuel Brigham's Garrison, Thomas Brigham's Garrison, and Nathan Brigham's Garrison. In this war Samuel Brigham was the lieutenant under Capt. Thomas Howe. He received a bounty for destroying an Indian. While he was called Captain during the years of the Revolutionary war there is no Revolutionary War marker at his grave.
6 Mar 1690 Samual became a freeman. In the years 1699 and 1703, tradition states, he was town treasurer, although the town records for that period were burned so this cannot be verified. He was selectman in 1707 and 1710, and representative to the General Court in 1697-99 and in 1705.
Samuel Brigham has the distinction of being the father of the Marlborough tanning and shoe trades. The first tannery in the town was erected by Samuel about 1700. The tannery ceased to be used in 1859. It was taken down piecemeal for many years. It was wholly demolished by 1876. Many of Samuel's descendants carried on in the shoe business in Marlborough, in one capacity or another. Today shoe manufacturing in Marlborough is relegated to history.
Samuel Brigham lies buried in the Old Common Cemetery in the rear of the Academy in Marlborough He is the only one of the second generation of Brighams whose grave is marked. The headstone is rather ornate. It is likely Thomas and his mother also lie in this cemetery, but there is no documentation. Their burial places are unknown.
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