Samuel Shorey, Jr.

Not the same as Samuel Shore, the elder, of “Meersbrook”

Samuel Shorey

• aka Shory
• Born 9 Jan 1706 in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay
• Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
• Son of Samuel Shorey and Mary Thompson (Rhodes) Shorey
• Husband of Martha (Hooper) Shorey — married about 1727 in Maine

Biography

Samuel was born in 1706. He is the son of Samuel Shorey and Mary Rhodes.[1]

Research note

Where is the evidence that his wife was Martha Hooper? His brother Thomas married Mary Hooper, same parents as the Martha who is connected here. Could this be a mixup? The 2004 Maine Genealogist article "Samuel Shorey of Kittery, Maine" by Kathleen Shorey Shultz has no maiden name for Martha, but does make the connection between Samuel's brother Thomas and his wife Mary Hooper.

GEDCOM Note

4-17 Samuel Shorey m Martha Hooper.

Their children:

1. 5-11 Samuel b 1730, bp Aug. 26, 1733
2. 5-12 Abigail bp June 13, 1736
3. 5-13 Eunice bp June 21, 1739, d Berwick, York County, Maine
4. 5-14 Martha bp Dec. 8, 1741, m Berwick, Apr. 9, 1767, John Thurston/Thornton
5. 5-15 William bp Mar. 27, 1742, d Berwick, Nov. 23, 1822
6. 5-16 Lydia bp Apr. 29, 1746, d Wakefield, New Hampshire, June 13, 1839

Before Berwick was set off from Kittery in 1713, the upper part of Eliot, probably all above Sturgeon Creek, was called Berwick or Barwick in the records of the times. Shorey's Brook was called Thompson's Brook. In 1722, Samuel Shorey's neighbors were the families of Daniel Furbush and Alexander Ferguson. The three families had twenty-eight children. It meant something to live in the upper part of Eliot and be a neighbor in those days. They defended each other's homes against Indian attack; and in the hour of alarm, they fled to Daniel Furbush's one-stoiy house. These mothers gathered their twenty-eight children at Furbush's house, while the fathers and oldest boys stood by with loaded guns, to defend homes and estates. Surely they realized the verity of Scripture:

"There is no peace to him that goeth out, nor to him that cometh in; we get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."

Those early neighbors in bearing burdens and sharing comforts awaken our interest in their lives and histories, and can we reverence such ancestors too much?

References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shorey-761
   1. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWBV-VSQ : 14 January 2020), Samuel Shory, 9 January 1706. Father's Name Samuel Shory Father's Sex Male Mother's Name Mary Mother's Sex Female Event Type Birth