Person Sheet


Name Capt. *Samuel COUCH, 7G Grandfather
Birth 1666, Of Fairfield, CT
Death 8 Sep 1725
Occupation CLICK NAME FOR NOTES - Provincial Governor of Connecticut145
Father *Simon COUCH (1633-1686)
Mother *Mary ANDREWS (1645-1687)
Spouses:
1 *Edrea HURLBUT100, 7G Grandmother
Birth abt 1668, Jacobus states abt. 1674. Of, Fairfield, CT100
Death 24 Nov 1737100
Occupation CLICK NAME FOR NOTES
Father *Thomas HURLBUT , II
Children: *Mary (1695-1766)
Notes for Capt. *Samuel COUCH
146"At a town meeting, May ye 27th, 1689. Capt. Samuel Eells, Timothy Baldwin, and Samuel Couch, proposing to the town to have liberty to build a fulling mill upon ye Beaver brook, within ye common fence, on Timothy Baldwin's land, doe promise if ye stopping of ye water by ye dam be so that it is not passable in ye highway for carts and horses, they will make the way passable by such a bridge as shall be necessary for carts and horses, and maintain ye same soe long as ye mill and dam shall stand. The town, by a full bote, granted ye request upon ye conditions proposed."
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100At bapt. of children 1711 to 1715, Samuel was called Capt.
Ensign.,West company, Fairfield, June 1709; Lt., Oct. 1709; Capt., Oct. 1710; Deputy (Fairfield), Oct. 1710, Oct. 1712, May and Oct. 1720, May 1733, Oct. 1734; Justice, 1723-39.
Will 12 May 1739, proved 3 Dec. 1739; advanced in years; legacies to sons Samuel, Benjamin, John (at College, to have out of his estate education for four years), and Ebenezer; daus. Eunice wife of Reuben Taylor and Abigail Couch; gr. son Joseph Jackson; residue equally to children, Samuel, Benjamin, Ebenezer, and Solomon Couch, Mary Couch, Edry Frost, Eunice Taylor, Elizabeth Todd, and Abigail Couch.
Samuel, Benjamin, Ebenezer, and Solomon Couch, Joseph Crane and wife Mary, Joseph Frost and wife Adra, Nathaniel Hibbard and wife Abigail, all of Fairfield, Reuben Taylor and wife Eunice of Norwalk, and Rev. Jonathan Todd and wife Elizabeth of Guilford, conveyed 15 June 1741 to brother John Couch of Fairfield, land in Redding.
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