 1666 - 1739 (73 years)
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| Name |
Samuel COUCH [1, 2, 3] |
| Title |
Capt. |
| Born |
1666 |
Westport, Fairfield Co, CT  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
11 Dec 1739 |
Westport, Fairfield Co, CT |
| Person ID |
I2769 |
adkinshorton |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2013 |
| Father |
Simon Couch, b. 1633, Devonshire, England , d. 15 Mar 1688, Greens Farms, Fairfield Co, CT (Age 55 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Frances Andrews, b. Abt 1645, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT , d. 1691, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Married |
1664 |
Fairfield Co, CT |
| Documents |
 | Simon Couch & Mary Frances Andrews - Marriage Record (compiled)
New England Marriages Prior to 1700, page 186 |
| Histories |
 | History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield - Couch References
Compiled & Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus, 1902
(retyped as searchable PDF 2011) |
| Family ID |
F20130 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Edrea HURLBUT, b. 1674, Woodbury, Litchfield Co, CT , d. 24 Nov 1737, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT (Age 63 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Mary COUCH, b. 15 Dec 1695, d. 9 Jan 1766 (Age 70 years) |
| | 2. Edra COUCH, b. Bef 7 Aug 1698, d. 23 Jul 1753 (Age ~ 54 years) |
| | 3. Samuel COUCH, b. Bef 22 Sep 1700, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT , d. 18 May 1775, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT (Age ~ 74 years) |
| | 4. Benjamin Couch, b. 27 Dec 1702, d. 27 Sep 1748, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT (Age 45 years) |
| | 5. Eunice COUCH, b. Bef 2 Mar 1706/07, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT |
| | 6. Martha COUCH, b. Bef 18 Feb 1707, d. 1728 (Age ~ 20 years) |
| + | 7. Ebenezer Couch, Sr., b. 05 Apr 1709, Fairfield Co, CT , d. 23 Mar 1797, Redding, Fairfield Co, CT (Age 87 years) |
| | 8. Elizabeth COUCH, b. 22 Jul 1711, d. 18 Dec 1783 (Age 72 years) |
| + | 9. Solomon Couch, b. Bef 24 May 1713, d. 26 Sep 1748 (Age ~ 35 years) |
| | 10. Abigail COUCH, b. Bef 4 Sep 1715, d. 17 Nov 1776 (Age ~ 61 years) |
| | 11. John COUCH, b. 1717, d. 1 Jun 1805, Lee, Berkshire Co, MA (Age 88 years) |
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| Documents |
| Samuel Couch & Edrea Hurlbut - Marriage Record (compiled)
New England Marriages Prior to 1700, page 186 |
| Family ID |
F20117 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- "The General Assembly met on the 12th of October, [1710] when Mr. James Rennet and Mr. Samuel Couch represented Fairfield. Mr. Samuel Couch was confirmed captain, Mr. John Osborn lieutenant and Mr. Benjamin Rumsey ensign of Green's Farms train-band." - The History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1700-1800, Vol. II
- Capt. Samuel Couch, death also given as 1725 but will dated 1739, birth also given as abt.1670 (1666 date from Frost Gen.)
"The History of the Town of Catharine, Schuyler County, New York"
by The Tuttle Publishing Co. Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1945.
Ensign, west company, Fairfield, June 1709; Lt. Oct 1709; Capt. Oct 1710;
Deputy (Fairfield), Oct 1710; Oct 1712, May and Oct 1720, May 173, Oct 1734;
Justice 1723-39.
Will 12 May 1739, proved 3 Dec 1739; advanced in years; legacies to sons Samuel,
Benjamin, John (at College, to have out of his estate education for four
years), and Ebenezer; daughters Eunice wife of Reuben Taylor and Abigail Couch;
grandson Joseph Jackson; residue equally to children, Samuel, Benjamin,
Ebenezer and Solomon Couch, Mary Couch, Edry Frost, Eunice Taylor, Elizabeth
Todd and Abigail Couch.
Samuel, Benjamin, Ebenezer and Solomon Couch, Joseph Crane and wife Mary, Joseph
Frost and wife Adra, Nathaniel Hibbard and wife Abigail, all of Fairfield,
Reuben Taylor and wife Eunice of Norwalk, and Rev. Jonathan Todd and wife
Elizabeth of Guilford, conveyed 15 June 1741 to brother John Couch of
Fairfield, land in Redding.
All information from:
"History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield"
by Donald Lines Jacobus, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR, Fairfield, CT, 1930.
Allen Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN. Gc 974.602 F161j
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| Sources |
- [S18732] History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Jacobus, Burr, DAR 1930.
- [S18737] Frost/Couch Genealogy.
- [S18738] The History of the Town of Catharine, Schuyler County, New York.
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