Samuel Waters, Jr.

Samuel Waters, son of Samuel Waters and Anne Sterling, was born May 29, 1719 in Hebron, Connecticut. He grew to adulthood in Hebron and married there on Apr. 14, 1740, with JEMIMA HOWARD. Samuel and Jemima had seven children, all born in Hebron, between 1741 and 1757. Sometime before the Revoution, Samuel moved his family to Amenia in Dutchess County, New York.

Child: (known): STerling Waters (1757-1809).

When the war begun, Samuel Waters was commissioned as a First Lt. in Capt. Brinton Paine's Company, 6th Dutchess County Regiment of the New York Militia. According to the DAR, Samuel was born in Connecticut on May 29, 1719. He served from New York with a rank of PS (?), he died in New York on Apr. 24, 1782. His spouse was Jemima Howard. Neither Samuel, his widow, or any of his children collected any penstion.

No record has been found of the death of Jemima. She may have died before the move to Amenia, because the mother of Samuel's last two children is said to have been a woman other than Jemima. Samuel died in Amenia on Apr. 24, 1782.

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