grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46728685August 7, 1632; probably removed to Cambridge; deputy, May, 1635; constable for Newtown, April, 1636; an original proprietor at Hartford, 1639, when his home-lot was on the south bank of the Little River; chosen townsman, 1638; appointed with George Hubbard, Senior, and Ancient Stoughton, in 1636, "to consider the bounds and survey the breadth of Dorchester (Windsor) towards the Falls, and of Watertown (Wethersfield) towards the mouth of the River." he was killed in 1641 by a shot from the Spanish fort at Providence in the Bahamas, where he had been sent " to buy cotton." His widow, Elizabeth, married (2) Nathaniel Willett, of Hartford, before Jan. 1643, and the estate of Wakeman was settled on him December 4, 1645, on condition that he pay £40 to the son when he reached the age of 21, and £20 to each of the dad's at the age of 18.ied in 1683.URCE:'' James Hammond Trumbull, editor, ''The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884'', Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), pages 265-266. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from [http://books.google.com/books?id=B18EAAAAYAAJ Google Books]in November, 1631, in the ship Lion, Captain Pierce, and settled in Roxbury, November 2, 1631, and was made a Freeman the seventh of August following, being one of the founders of the first church in Roxbury. ade constable and was engaged in adjusting the bounds of the first settlement of Windsor and Wethersfield. He was killed in the summer of 1641, with Captain Pierce at Providence in the Bahamas, as told by Winthrop, vol. ii., p. 43. ;''SOURCE'': Unknown. those of John White and Samuel Wakeman being the first.nders who wished tosettle at Old Providence Island in the summer of 1641, and not realizingthat the Spaniards had recently taken the island, Samuel Wakeman was on the ship mastered by William Pierce; when they reached Old Providence and sailed into the harbor, they came under the Spanish guns, and Pierce "threw himself in at the door of the cuddy, and one Samuel Wakeman, a member of the church of Hartford, who was sent with goods to buy cotton,cast himself down by him, and presently a great shot took them both. Mr.Peirce died within an hour; the other, having only his thighs tore, lived ten days"gy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Donald Lines Jacobus, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;).f the ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter, p.72sford
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