Samuel Nightingale

Biography

Samuel was baptized on 24 April 1715 at Quincy in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was the son of Joseph Nightingale and Hannah Paine.

Joseph died when Samuel was nine, and in his will Joseph made provision for Samuel to be educated through college, if he was so inclined. Samuel graduated from Harvard in 1734. He took his M.A. there in 1737.

He preached for several years, but eventually gave it up for farming in Pomfret, Connecticut, citing poor health as the reason.

He married Abigail Belcher in 1740. Children:

Samuel b. 1741; m. Susannah Crawford 1767
Sarah b. 1744; m. Thomas Munro 1766
Abigail b. 1745; m. Sylvester Richmond 1768
Joseph b. 1747; m. Elisabeth Corliss 1769
William
Mary "Polly" b. 1754; m. James Gramont
Lydia b. 1760; m. Abijah Warren in 1793
They removed to Providence, Rhode Island in 1751. He built a distillery and became very successful.

He was regularly chosen Justice of the Peace for Providence until 1761, and during the 1760s served intermittently on the Superior Court.

He died at Providence in 1786. The will of Samuel Nightengale Esqr., of Providence, is dated 24 January 1786 and was proved 2 April 1787.[1] It names:

wife Abigail Nightengale
sons Samuel Nightengale, Joseph Nightengale, and William Nightengale
daughters Sarah Munro, Abigail Richmond, Polly Gramon, and Lydia Nightengale

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nightingale-1846

Profile last modified 27 Nov 2022

Samuel Nightingale (bef. 1715 - 1786)

Samuel Nightingale

Born before Apr 1715 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Son of Joseph Nightingale and Hannah (Paine) Nightingale

Brother of Joseph Nightingale [half] and Joseph Nightingale

Husband of Abigail (Belcher) Nightengale — married 6 Nov 1740 [location unknown]

Father of Sarah (Nightingale) Munro

Died 23 Dec 1786 after age 71 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA

Sources

↑ Providence, R.I. wills vol. 7 pages 71–3
Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical sketches of graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts pages 4081–4
1774 Rhode Island Census, Providence, Page 15, Entry 14 — Samuel Nightengale; from "Census of the Colony of Rhode Island," one bound volume, Rhode Island State Archives, identifier C#00197; viewed through "Colony of Rhode Island Census, 1774", database of images from Rhode Island State Digital Archives (sosri.access.preservica.com/).
See also:

Rhode Island Historical Society, Samuel Nightengale papers