Honoring a Granger on his birthday 1701 Sam

Today is Samuel Granger's birth anniversary - 1701. He lived until around 27 Sept 1739, not very long, but had 6 children.  The probate for his estate was in Andover, MA on 29 Sept 1739. His death is listed as the 27th in a hand written record for Andover MA, Births and Deaths, 1649- 1839.  He was my 6th great grandfather on my father's mother's tree, Ada Swasey Rogers tree.

A typed transcription of his birth record lists his birth date as son of John Granger.  (Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Andover, Vital Records Transcrips, pg. 179.)

On the same page at the bottom half, I just noticed that a "Graunger" name list includes his own 5 siblings, in reverse order, but not himself, those born before and including 1695.  

His birth is confirmed in an Andover Massachusetts birth record, 1649-1801, hand written, as son of John Granger.

Benjamin Abbott Farmhouse 1909 Andover, MA

He and Martha Marston published their intention to marry in the record book of Andover MA Births, Marriages and Intentions, Deaths 1701-1803 on Nov 2, 1728.

He married on 18 Dec, 1728 to Martha Marston, as recorded in Andover MA transcript of Marriages 1650-1844, with Mr. John Bernard presiding.

Having a mother named Martha, a sister named Martha, and a wife of the same name, it's important for searching all his records to look at the dates and use the primary sources as I've listed today!

Since Samuel seemed to be the youngest son of his seafaring father, John...I want to check more into the lives of his siblings, there are 7 on my tree at this point.  I'll be back to add more to these great aunts and uncles, if they're interesting anyway!

There are no records about two of the three older brothers, who have birth and death dates given only and no sources besides (you guessed it) other Ancestry trees.  I am going to take them off my tree.  That way there are just 6 siblings listed, which agrees with the Massachusetts records I've cited above.  If they come back with any other source information, I can always add them back.

I posted earlier this year about Capt. John Granger, his father HERE.  Capt. John had been born in Newbury, Essex County, MA, but about the time he married Martha Poor he moved to Andover, and lived next to his in-laws, around 1679.

Wikipedia says this about Andover 

It is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was settled in 1642 and later incorporated in 1646.

 In order to encourage settlement, early colonists were offered three years' immunity from taxes, levies, and services (except military service). The first permanent settlement in the Andover area was established in 1642 by John Woodbridge and a group of settlers from Newbury and Ipswich.

Shortly after they arrived, they purchased a piece of land from the local Pennacook tribal chief Cutshamache for "six pounds of currency and a coat" and on the condition that Roger, a local Pennacook man, would be allowed to plant his corn and take alewives from a local water source. Roger's Brook, a small stream which cuts through the eastern part of town, is named in his honor. In May 1646 the settlement was incorporated as a town and was named Andover. 

 The first recorded town meeting was held in 1656 in the home of settler John Osgood in what is now North Andover.

The old burying ground in what is now North Andover marks the center of the early town. Contrary to popular belief, the towns split due to the location of the Old North Church, also located in what is now North Andover. The villagers from the southwestern part of the town were tired of walking all the way to the extreme north of what was then Andover and decided to build their own church central to what is now Andover. Early on the general populace was concentrated together around the Old Center (North Andover) for protection from feared Indian attacks, but the Indians were fairly peaceful until the outbreak of King Philip's War. King Philip Six Indian raids occurred between 1676 and with the last in 1698 led by Chief Escumbuit.

^{By 1705, Andover's population had begun to move southward and the idea of a new meeting house in the south end of town was proposed. This was strongly opposed by the people living near the original meeting house in the north, but the dispute was finally settled in 1709 when the Great and General Court divided Andover into two parishes, North and South. After the division of the two parishes, South Andover established the South Parish "Burying-Yard," as it was called, with early Andover settler Robert Russell the first to be interred at age 80 in December 1710. But despite this split, the town remained politically one unit.}

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1.  "Andover" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 387.