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FATHER

John Winter

MOTHER

Hannah King Cutler

WIFE

Elizabeth Philbrick

CHILDREN

1. Amy Winter b. 15 May 1715

2. Samuel Winter b. Bef. 12 Jan 1717/18

3. Sybil Winter b. Bef. 04 Jan 1720/21

4. Moses Winter b.  Bef. 22 Mar 1723/24

5. Elizabeth Winter b. 17 Jan 1727/28

6. Isaac Winter  b. 20 Feb 1731/32

7. Sarah Winter b. 09 Jul 1733

Samuel Winter
by Susan Brooke
Jan 2023

Samuel Winter was born 12 Jan 1684/5 according to the Cambridge, MA birth records. (1) This record was copied as being born 12 Mar 1684-5. (2)  In both entries his parents were listed as Jno and Hannah Winter.  He was the youngest of 9 children.  His father, John Winter, wrote his will on 12 Dec 1690 and died on 18 Dec 1690. (3) His wife, mother of Samuel Winter, was not mentioned in the will so it is assumed she had already died.  The Lexington death records state that four members of this family died within a two month period.    Samuel's father, John Winter,  died on 18 Dec 1690. Samuel's sister, Sarah Winter, died the next day on 19 Dec 1690.  His brother, Joseph Winter, also died sometime in Dec 1690 and as he was not mentioned in his father's will, he probably died just before his father..    His brother, Thomas Winter, died six weeks later on 4 Feb 1690/1. (4)  It must have been a terrible time for the family.  Samuel Winter was orphaned at just 5 years old and had lost three of his siblings.  John Harrington, who had married Samuel's sister Hannah, became guardian for Mary Winter.  His older brother John Winter was responsible for  Samuel's share of his father's estate. 
In 1709 when he was 24 years old, he purchased land in Killingly, Windham, CT. (5)   Samuel Winter married Elizabeth Philbrick four years later on  1 Feb 1713/4 in Groton, Middlesex, MA . (6)  They had 7 children.  His wife, Elizabeth Philbrick Winter,  died 20 Aug 1756 in Killingly, Windham, CT. (7)  Samuel Winter appeared to be alive at that time, but there is no death record for him. 

Sources

(1) Samuel son of Jno and Hannah Winter 12: 1: 1684/5
Named son of Jno and Hannah in baptism

(2) March 13, 1639, the bounds between Cambridge and Watertown were established.
Winter, Samuel, son of Jno and Hannah, Mar. 12, 1684-5

(3) will of his father, John Winter

(4) Winter Deaths in Lexington in 1690

Deaths in Lexington, Middlesex, MA

(5)  History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II, 1760-1880
Aspinock. Killingly.

Within the time allotted, the grantees had taken up their land, and on October 13, 1709, on the payment of forty pounds through Captain Chandler, a patent of the remaining lands in Killingly was granted by the Governor and Company of Connecticut to its proprietors, viz.: Colonel Robert Treat, Major James Fitch, Captain John Chandler, Joseph Otis, James Danielson, Ephraim Warren, Peter Aspinwall, Joseph Cady, Richard Evans, Sen. and Jun., John Winter, Stephen Clap, John and William Crawford, George Blanchard, Thomas Whitmore, John Lorton, Jonathan Russel, Daniel Cady, William Price, William Moffat, James and Joseph Leavens, John, Nathaniel and Nicholas Mighill, John Bartlett, Samuel Winter, Ebenezer Kee, Isaac and Jonathan Cutler, Peter Leavens, Sampson Howe, John Sabin, John Preston, Philip Eastman, David Church, Thomas Priest, Nicholas Cady, John, Thomas, Matthew, Jabez and Isaac Allen. Nearly one-third of these forty-four patentees were non-resident, so that Killingly numbered at this date about thirty families.

(6) Marriage Record in Groton, Middlesex, MA
Samuel Winter of Killingly and Elizabeth Phillbook of Groton
married 1 February 1713

(7) Death of Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Winter  20 Aug 1756

From Connecticut Deaths on Ancestry.com

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