Priscilla Smith

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From Find A Grave Memorial# 52379591

Samuel's first wife was the Priscilla Gould, daughter of Zaccheus Gould. She died in 1744, possibly died from complications of childbirth from her son Asael's birth.

Samuel's second wife, also a Priscilla Gould was a cousin of this Priscilla, as she was the daughter of Zaccheus' brother Joseph. The second Priscilla is listed in town records as dying 27 May 1797.

I suspect the headstone was placed much later than the time of Samuel or either Priscilla's deaths as the reference to 'daughter of Zaccheus Gould' applies to Samuel's first wife Priscilla. The death date for Priscilla of 1785 does not match known records for either wife. 

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Priscilla_Gould_(1)_
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903, 1916), 51. GOULD, Prisillah, d. Zacheus and Elisabeth, [born] Aug. 4, 1707.
  • Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, Second Publisher: Ancestry.com, Second Address: Provo, Utah. (T.P. Nichols, Lynn, Mass., 1989), page 64.

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W.G. Davis 1927, The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne 1737-1793 of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine, pp. 37 and 60.

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