Captain Samuel Brigham

1652 - 1713  (61 years)  Submit Photo / Document

• Name	Samuel Brigham
  Title	Captain
  Born	12 Jan 1652	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Library book: History of the Brigham Family	006
  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
  Died	24 Jul 1713	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Buried	Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  		Captain Samuel Brigham Inscription. From the book: Marlborough, Massachusetts, Burial Ground Inscriptions, page 25. Published by Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts 1908.
  		Capt Samuel Brigham Headstone Capt Samuel Brigham Headstone
  		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
  		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
  2. John Brigham,   b. 16 Mar 1644, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 16 Sep 1728, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  3. Mary Brigham,   b. Abt 1649, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1676, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  4. Hannah B Brigham,   b. 9 Mar 1649, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 Dec 1719, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  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
  Married	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)
  Married	1683
  Children	1. Elizabeth Brigham,   b. 24 Mar 1685, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Oct 1733, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 48 years)  [Birth]   2. Hepsibah Brigham,   b. 25 Jan 1686, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 17 Oct 1757, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 71 years)   3. Samuel Brigham,   b. 25 Jan 1689, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Apr 1771, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years)  [Birth]   4. Lydia Brigham,   b. 6 Mar 1691, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  [Birth]   5. Lieutenant Jedediah Brigham,   b. 8 Jun 1693, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 21 May 1763, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)  [Birth] + 6. Jotham Brigham,   b. 23 Dec 1695, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 23 Nov 1759, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 63 years)  [Birth]   7. Timothy Brigham,   b. 10 Oct 1698, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1 Oct 1775, Southborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 76 years)  [Birth]   8. Charles Brigham,   b. 30 Dec 1700, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 17 Mar 1781, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)  [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)
  Family ID	F994	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 12 Jan 1652 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Died - 24 Jul 1713 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Buried - - Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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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.