Samuel E Fay, Jr.

Samuel (2), eldest son and third child of Samuel (1) Fay, was baptized in Marlboro, Massachusetts, May 6, 1705, died 1788. He ceased to be of record in Marlboro after 1775, and then settled at or near Reading, Vermont.

He married (first) December 15, 1726, his cousin, Deliverance, born December 22, 1707, died 1754, daughter of Benjamin and Deliverance (Fay) Shattuck, of Watertown. Morse says: "His first wife died after delivering to him fourteen children in twenty years."

He married (second), 1756, Mrs. Elizabeth (Hastings) Cutler, of Cambridge. She died at Reading, Vermont, 1796; eleven children.

He was over seventy years of age when his twenty-fifth child was born.

Children, all born in Southboro:

• 1. Deliverance, born November 15, 1727.
• 2. Ruth, February 4, 1729.
• 3. Persis, May 18, 1730.
• 4. Abigail, August 26,1731, died in infancy.
• 5. Sarah, November 3,1732, died in infancy.
• 6. Solomon, February 17 1734 he married Mary Pratt; eleven children.
• 7. Samuel, August 29, 1735; was a soldier in the French war in the Crown Point expedition, as was his brother Solomon. He married (first) Betsy Carroll; (second) Mary Kimball; twelve children.
• 8. Susannah, born February 18, 1737, died 1755.
• 9. Levinah, January 21, 1738, died young.
• 10. Benjamin August, 1740, died in infancy.
• 11. Joseph (of further mention).
• 12. Hannah, born September 2, 1743, died young.
• 13. Ebenezer, April 17, 1745.
• 14. Nehemiah, July 4, 1747.
• 15. Seth, May 14, 1757, died 1779; a lieutenant in the revolutionary army.
• 16. Sherebiah, born June 29, 1758; was an early settler of Watertown and served three years in the revolutionary war; he married Eleanor Stanley.
• 17. Hepsibah, born October 1, 1760; married (first) Whitney; (second) Samuel Hale.
• 18. Annie, born August 5, 1761, died 1813, unmarried.
• 19. Ezra, July 1, 1765 ; married Sarah Newton; fourteen children.
• 20. Moses, born May 27, 1767; married Polly Goddard.
• 21. Abigail, December 31, 1768, died 1845, unmarried.
• 22. Noadiah, born November 25, 1770; married Catherine Walker.
• 23. Hananiah, born August 25, 1772; married Rebecca Mansfield; seven children.
• 24. Sarah, born February 12, 1775; married Joshua Hyde.
• 25. An infant, died unnamed.

Source: Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume 2, page 663.

Cite This Record"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4B-4ZD : 15 January 2020), Deliverance in entry for Joseph Fay, 1741.