Samuel FELT

Abt 1697 - 1788  (91 years)

• Birth	Abt 1697	Salem, Essex, MA   [1]
  Baptism	5 Jan 1698	Salem First Church, Salem, Essex, MA   [1]
  Note	1720	Somers, Tolland, CT   [1]
  	From The Felt Genealogy "Samuel Felt settled in Somers not far from 1720. He emigrated thither from Salem when such a journey must have been made on foot or horseack through a wilderness in which lurked dangers from savage beasts and still more savage men. We find that a number of Salem families settled early in Somers, among them that of Josiah Wood, who had married an aunt of Samuel Felt, and this was undoubtedly the inducement that drew him thither, - an enterprise that was soon followed by the remaining members of his family. It is related of Samuel that his first appearance in Somers was upon a sorrel mare, clad in a suit of yellow-brown homespun. As he stopped before the tavern kept by Serah Kibbee, he attracted the attention of a young girl who stood in the doorway, who, under the excitement of seeing a good-looking young stranger with fair locks, exclaimed to her mother, "Yellow man, yellow mare, yellow coat, yellow hair." She afterwards became his wife and the mother of his children. Samuel Felt served in the French and Indian War and bore the title of captain to his dying day. He became a considerable land-owner in Somers, having a valuable farm stretching along the highway, now the "street" of Somers. His house was on the corner of the road leading north past the old meeting-house, and, after his son Samuel married, he shared it with him. He was a "joyner" as well as a farmer, and a man prominent and useful in the community. Samuel Felt and his wife united with the church in Somers, May 21, 1727, upon the occasion of the first sacrament of this new church, and to the end of the ninety years of his life he bore the reputation of a righteous and God-fearing man. He died in Somers, March 23, 1788."
  Death	23 Mar 1788	Somers, Tolland, CT   [1]

  
  

  Father	Samuel FELT,   b. Falmouth, Cumberland, ME
  Mother	Elizabeth UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F3415	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rachel KIBBEE   d. 24 Jul 1745, Somers, Tolland, CT
  Marriage	Abt 1725  [1, 2]
  Children	1. Elizabeth FELT,   b. Abt 1725   d. 1816 (Age 91 years)   2. Rachael FELT,   b. 11 Jun 1726, Somers, Tolland, CT d. 6 Mar 1740 (Age 13 years)   3. Samuel FELT,   b. 22 Oct 1728, Somers, Tolland, CT d. 13 Nov 1728, Somers, Tolland, CT (Age 0 years)   4. Mehitable FELT,   b. 22 Mar 1730, Somers, Tolland, CT   5. Hannah FELT,   b. 8 Apr 1732, Somers, Tolland, CT d. 16 Feb 1741 (Age 8 years)   6. Samuel FELT,   b. 13 Apr 1735, Somers, Tolland, CT   7. Ruth FELT,   b. 25 Apr 1738, Somers, Tolland, CT   8. Naomi FELT,   b. 25 Mar 1741, Somers, Tolland, CT   9. David FELT,   b. 13 Aug 1743, Somers, Tolland, CT d. 23 Sep 1762 (Age 19 years)   10. Elijah FELT,   b. 19 Jul 1745, Somers, Tolland, CT d. 3 Sep 1754 (Age 9 years)
  Family ID	F3411	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1697 - Salem, Essex, MA Baptism - 5 Jan 1698 - Salem First Church, Salem, Essex, MA Note - 1720 - Somers, Tolland, CT Death - 23 Mar 1788 - Somers, Tolland, CT  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S379] Felt Genealogy, (Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, Conn., 1893), 379. [S317] OneWorldTree, 317.