Samuel was born about 1600 in England, the son of unknown parents.
His wife was Susannah. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Michael (c1625-?).
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Birth | ABT 1600 |
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Note 1
!Source: “The Humpheys Family in America”, by Frederick Humphreys, MD, et all, New York, Humphreys Print., 1886, page 97.
!Notes: Earliest record in 1643 has him in the wilderness at Massaco [now Simsbury] a few miles west of the Windsor settlement, where he was manufacturing tar and turpentine with someone named John Griffin, these being much in demand by the British Navy.
Letter exists to son Michael dated 1648, from Lyme, England.