Samuel Fairchild

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Said to be one of the ten sons of Thomas Fairchild of Stratford.

Among the early settlers in this country was Thomas Fairchild, a native of England, who located at Stratford in 1639 and became one the leading pioneers of the place, being named by both Barber and Hollister as the first magistrate there?. It is likely that the name was originally Fairbairn, and that the family went to England from Scotland at a very early period. Thomas Fairchild, the pioneer settler at Stratford, was twice married and had several children. (37; CBR)

"The following spring seventeen families, including about sixty persons, on foot and on horse-back, threaded their way through the wilderness from Wheathersfield, forded the Pootatuck, and halted at the red man's Cupheag and named it home. How familiar to us are many of the names on the lips of the settlers that day as they addressed one another? Blakeman, Fairchild, Curtis, Sherwood, Judson, Wilcoxson, Beardsley? a real Stratford in miniature, small in numbers but not in extent, as the original township embraced most of the land afterwards?They were landed at the mouth of Mack's Creek where the settlers made a temporary abiding place? huts, tents and meeting-house? until the division of the land could be affected." (39; Stratford's 250th Anniv.)

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Family/Spouse: Mary Wheeler. Mary was born about 1642 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died on 7 Feb 1733 in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Samuel Fairchild (c. 31 Aug.1640 Stratford-Jan. 1704/5 Stratford) m. Mary Wheeler (c. 1655-1747). Mary is the daughter of Moses and Miriam (Hawley) Wheeler; m. Benjamin Beach 5 Dec 1705 Stratford; m. Thomas Yale 31 July 1716 Wallingford, CT. Children of Samuel and Mary born in Stratford, CT: 1) Robert b. 1681; d. before 1716, 2) Samuel b. 1682, 3) Anna b. 168__; m. Benjamin Coney 18 Nov 1702 Stratford, CT; d. 23 Jul 1703 Stratford, CT, Edward (c.1685-1767) m. Elizabeth Blakeman/Blackman 1710, Jonathon b. 10 Oct 1692. On 10 Dec 1674 Samuel's lands were recorded. He had received from his father 30 Dec 1668, land received by gift from his grandfather Seabrook and land he had received in exchange with brother Thomas. Samuel was a ship's carpenter and a member of the Congregational Church in Stratford.

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1. Edward Fairchild was born about 1685 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died about 1747 in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.