Samuel arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in October, 1633, and probably came in the ship "James", Grant, master, which left Gravesend, England, late in August of 1633, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay in October. He says in his diary, "I was born of good parents. My Mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendlesham, in catechiseing me and hearing choice ministers."

In 1635, he moved to Watertown, Massachusetts, where he joined the church and that same year he went to Dorchester (Windsor), Ct. where he married Tacy. She had brothers Robert and John of London.
Samuel and Tacy went to Wethersfield, Ct., in 1637, and moved up the Connecticut River to Springfield, MA in 1639. In Dec. 1640 "Samuel Hubbard is alsoe appoynted by a generall vote to keepe an Ordinary [Inn] for ye entertaynment of Strangers."

They left for Fairfield, Ct., in 1647, though only stayed a short time on account of church disagreements. Samuel and Tacy were preaching the doctrines of Anabaptism. He says in his diary: "God having enlightened both (but mostly my wife) into his holy ordinance of baptising only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at, and answered two terms publicly, where I was said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened with imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove: that scripture came into our minds."

"If they persecute you in one place flee to another;" and so we did 2 day of October, 1648. We went for Rhode Island and arrived there the 12 day. I and my wife upon our manifestation of our faith were baptised by brother Joseph Clarke, 3 day of November, 1648."

Samuel was a zealous Baptist and public religous disputant. For twenty three years he belonged to the First Baptist Church of Newport, which sent him to Boston in 1651 "to visit the bretherin who was imprisoned in Boston jayl for witnessing the truth of baptising believers only, viz : Brothers John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes, and John Crandall." In 1657 he went with Holmes on a preaching tour on Long Island, and in 1664 he was appointed General Solicitor of the Colony.

In about 1665, a Seventh Day Baptist missionary and his wife arrived in Newport from London; the first convent to the Sabbath in America being Tacy. Samuel and Tacy, one daughter, and four other persons formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America in 1671. Samuel reported that in 1678 there were 37 "Sabbatarians" in America; 20 in Newport , 7 at Westerly (also known as Hopkinton) and 10 at New London, Connecticut. Three years later the number of members reached 51; of this group two were Indians.
In 1675 in his diary he refers to a "testament of my grandfather Cocke's, printed in 1549, which he [Cocke] hid in his bed straw lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days."
He died between 1688 and 1692, and his wife after 1697, but no traces of their burial places have been found.

One Thousand years of Hubbard History: 866 - 1895
Published by Harlan Page Hubbard, New York. 1895.
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