Samuel Guile

GEDCOM Note

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gild-4

Puritan Great Migration

LNAB is GILD by his baptismal record.

According to Charles Burleigh in his Introduction to "The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile, Gile Family" - "In searching the records at Haverhill, the author found the name of Guild applied to Samuel and his sons, in several instances, still it never occurred to him that the names might be identical, until he mentioned his purpose to prepare a genealogy of the Guile family to a friend, who understood the name to be Guild, both being pronounced nearly alike in this country....." Corresponding with a descendant in Vermont it was confirmed the name rhymes with "child".

Biography

Name and Origins

Name: Samuel Guile of Dedham, Massachusetts

Orthographic variations: Guile, Gile, Guild, Gild, Gilde, Gyld,Gylde, Gill
It has been suggested that he could be the Samuel Gile baptized 19 January 1613 at Ilkestshall St. Margaret, Suffolk, England, son of Richard Gile and Margery Jordan. (Gile, John Charles. The Guile-Gile-Guiles Genealogy : Descendants of Samuel Guile, one of the twelve founders of Haverhill Massachusetts in 1640. (Baltimore: Gateway Press, familysearch.org, 1997): xiii-xvi.) This is not completely proven. There are reasons, however, to think the identification is correct. Margery Gilde of Ilketshall, widow, left a will dated 24 January 1628/9 in which she leaves all of her goods equally divided between hertwo sons, John and Samuel Gilde. Now, a John Guild and Samuel Guile both immigrated around the some time, both being for a short time in Dedham before settling in other parts of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; it has long been presumed that these two men, without direct evidence,were brothers. In 1635, a James Clough mentioned in his will land at “Ilketshall St. Margaret which I purchased of John Guyle.” JohnClough, one of the founders of Salisbury, Massachusetts, certainly knew Samuel Guile as their children Thomas Clough and Hannah Guile were married in 1680. The supposition then is that John Clough was the sonof the 1635 testator James Clough, Samuel and John Guil(d)e were the children of Richard Guile, that they all originated and knew each other in Ilketshall, and that they immigrated together around 1635. However, while this cluster of names is intriguing, there is no evidence that any of this is true – there is no direct link to show the originsof Samuel Guile of Haverhill, John Guild of Dedham, or John Clough ofSalisbury to any part of England.

Birth

“Baptized:” 19 January 1613 at Ilkestshall St. Margaret, Suffolk,England. “Samewell, son of Richard Gild, baptised at Ilketshall, Suffolk, England, Ilketshall St. Margaret, Suffolk, baptisms 1538-1650, burials 1607-1640 from Original Registers. See the information on Richard the father's page.

Note: After having reread the information given on his father's page, I am in no way certain that this information is correct.

Marriage and Children

Married: Judith Davis on 1 September 1647 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Vital Records of Haverhill: Vol 2, (1911): page 133. She was the daughter of James Davis, who emigrated from Marlborough, England and was also an original settler of Haverhill.

Children of Samuel Guile and Judith Davis:VitalRecords of Haverhill: Vol 1, (1910): page 138-139.

1. Samuel Guile.
2. Judith (Guile) Page.
3. John Guile.
4. Hannah (Guile) Clough.
5. Sarah (Guile) Thurston.
6. James Guile.
7. Ephraim Guile.

Death

“Died:” 21 February 1683 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Vital Records of Haverhill: Vol 2, (1911): page 406.

WILL OF SAMUEL GUILE

Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers,1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Case 10906.

This is the last will and testimon of Samuell Gill though week in his perfit understanding.

• To my Son John I doe give my ox Common lot as it is bounded with twoe ackrs of medow lying in the pond medow between thomas whiters medow and danield hendriecks medow with two commanadges.
• To my Son / Jams / (Jams could be misinterpreted as Sams. Note: Dorothy Gile Mills, on 11/94 reports from her 1994 research tripto Haverhill "Source: The Probate Records at 32 Federal St., Salem, Mass. I obtained a copy of Samuel Guile's will and found the name James, my ancestor, in place of the name Sam which was used in the book, "The History of the Guild, Guile, Gile Family". The will was made 8 years after his son, Sam, had died.") I doe give my dweling hous orchard land agining theretowith the barn apon it with two commonadges; with three ackers of land of ox common land lying over the way against my hous which I had of goodman swan.
• To my son efram I doe give my olde lot with the medow agining theirto wher I did formarly live; with twoe commonadges.
• To my dather Sarah I doe give my third divition lot lying beyand Spicket River; by goodman sachalls land, and my bed with all the furniture theirto; and fifty five pounds to be paied equally by my sons to / my dather / Sarah in corn and catell as can with in three years after my deses; it is to be understood eighteen pounds six shillings eight pence a pece.
• The fourth devishon land and the grate peace of medow lying in the pond medow with the Rest of the movables shall be equally devided amonge my three sons;and I doe mack my son John my exsecitor. /I give to my grandchild Judith Page five pound to be paid by my executors/
• John Gill my son shall have hallf / the frut of / the orchard for seven years not with sta[n]ing the formar guieft and I doe mack choisse of thomas Whittier sener and stephen dow for to be oversers of the performance of my will, dated this 16 of febery 1683.
  

Witness
Thomas Whittier
John Keyser
William White

The inventory mentions eight neat cattle, ten sheep, twenty-two acres oxecommon land, twenty-five acres of pond plain, eighteen acres of pond meadow, dwelling-house, barn and orchard, three acres by the orchard, six commonages or common rights, one hundred acres of third division, upland and meadow, thefourth division to be laid out one hundred and eighty acres, loom, etc., one Bible - appraised value, 336 pounds, 6 s. (Note - the reference to "Saml" in the will actually referred to son James according to the actual will and as evidenced by the land transactions.)

Notes

Immigration

Arrival:: 1636 Dedham, Massachusetts. Source: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: Dedham, Massachusetts; 1636; Page: 264

10 MAY 1636 Emigrated from Scotland to America (citation needed)

Samuel GUILE arrived (1636) in Massachusetts in company of older sister, Ann (b.1616) & brother, John (b.1618) settling in Dedham MA. There, Ann married James Allen(see Allen Genealogy published 1869 by JosephAllen) on March 16, 1638 and late settled near Medfield MA. John lived & died in Dedham MA, while Samuel left Dedham for Haverhill MA near the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border.

This date appears to be based on the thought that he came with Rev. Parker later of Newbury or in one of the boats that arrived shortly after he did. Is there evidence of this?

Appearance in Dedham

“Samuel Guile, brother of John Guild, was for a brief period at Dedham,..." Burleigh: p. 221. The History of Dedham has a list of "Freeman who had been admitted into Dedham before 1647 that contains the name of Samuel Guile.

Founding of Haverhill

"... and appears to have been one of the first settlers of Newbury, but did not remain long, for in 1640 he was one of the twelve who settled Pentucket, now known as Haverhill."

12 March 1641 He had one stint (Context indicates this to be one animal allowed to graze in the common pasture, but it may be one share or something else) in Ox & Cow common, which also implies another one in each of the heifer common and young cattle common.Currier: pp. 55, 93, 71, 84, 100 shows Samuel Guile as owner of 1 (share?) in the Ox and Cow Common, 12 Mar 1641. Samuel sold this right in the common grounds to John Bartlett.

About March 1640 Samuel Guile is listed "Among the men who were associated with the Rev. Mr. Ward in organizing the new settlement of Haverhill.

About 1642, The precise date of this list is unknown, but is believed to be about 1642. Samuel Guile is listed among those who are "acknowledged to be freeholders by the Towne and to have proportionable Right in all waste lands ,commons & Rivers.."Samuel Gile was one of the twelve men, who in the summer of 1640 "struck the first blow towards erecting a settlement in the wild woods of Pentucket" Mirick: p 10 Chase They were considered "very desirable men and good Christians."

1650, Samuel Gild chose land in the plain. His estate was valued at about £40 about this time. He received 10 acres of 2nd division land in 1652, and Samuel Gild signed a petition for the revocation of the sentence of Robert Pike of Salisbury. In 1656, Samuel Guile enteredinto an agreement to support a contract for a blacksmith. He receiveda land grant in 1663, which was not entered into the record until 1690. In July 1667, a division of land laid out 4 acres to Goodman Guile;Samuel Gild sen. is listed as one of those having built a cottage on the Commons, (1668).

Additional Records

Freeman: "Samu: Guil Freeman 18 May 1642” NEHGR:"List of Freeman" NEHGR 3:189 1849 Worthington: p. 122: "Freedmen admitted by 1647 - Samuel Guile."

Research Notes

Haverhill Records: Births

Taken from Vital Records of Haverhill:, vol. 1 Births (1910). Haverhill. Vital Records of Haverhill Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1: Births. (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910). page 139: Samuel Gild, s. Samuel and Judith (Davis), Aug. 30, 1648: page 139: Judith Gild, d. Samuel and Judith (Davis), April 5 [2. Dup.], 1650: page 139: John Gild, s. Samuel and Judith (Davis), Dec. 8, 1652: page 138: Hannah Gild, d. Samuel and Judith (Davis), Feb. 12 [Dup. 25], 1654/5: page 139: Sarah Gild, s. Samuel and Judith (Davis), March 1, 1657/8: page 139: James Gild, s. Samuel and Judith (Davis), August 27, 1660: page 138: Ephraim Gild, s. Samuel and Judith (Davis), March 21, 1661/2

Haverhill Records: Marriages and deaths

“Taken from Vital Records of Haverhill: vol. 2 Marriages and Deaths (1911). Haverhill. Vital Records of Haverhill Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2: Marriages and Deaths. (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910-1911). page 133: Samuel Gild and Judith Davis, Sept. 1, 1647 : page 133: Ephraim and Martha Bradly, 5January 1686: page 145: Meheteble and Nath[aniel] Johnson , Dec. 29 1715: page 406: Samuel Gild, h. Judith, Feb.21, 1683: page 405: Judith, w. Samuel, May ____,1667: page 405: Judith, d. Samuel and Judith (Davis), April 28, 1672: page 406: Samuel, s Samuel and Judith (Davis), Sept. ___, 1675

Sources

• Gile, John Charles. The Guile-Gile-Guiles Genealogy : Descendants of Samuel Guile, one of the twelve founders of Haverhill Massachusetts in 1640. (Baltimore: Gateway Press, familysearch.org, 1997): xiii-xvi.
• "Haverhill VR1"Haverhill. Vital Records of Haverhill Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1: Births. (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910): 138-139.
  

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