Samuel WHITMORE
- BIRTH: 04 Jul 1744; Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts (now part of USA)
- DEATH: 21 Dec 1808; Gorham, Cumberland Co., Maine, USA
Father: John WHITMORE
Mother: Lydia CUTTER
Family 1: Mary WHITNEY
- MARRIAGE: 24 Oct 1764; Gorham, Cumberland Co., Maine (now part of USA)
- CHILDREN:
- Lydia WHITMORE
- Mary WHITMORE
- Dorcas WHITMORE
- John WHITMORE
- Patience WHITMORE
- Elizabeth Ross WHITMORE
- Samuel WHITMORE (died young)
- Samuel WHITMORE
- Joel WHITMORE
- Sarah WHITMORE
- Joanna WHITMORE
- Eunice WHITMORE
_Francis WHITMORE_
_Samuel WHITMORE_|
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Notes
Updated January 26, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) McLellan, Hugh Davis. History of Gorham, Me. Portland, Maine, Smith & Sale, printers, 1903.
Page 825-826: "Samuel-4 WHITMORE, born July 4, 1744, was the grandson of Samuel-2, and the son of John-3 WHITMORE of Cambridge and his first wife, who was Mrs. Lydia CUTTER, and whom he married June 24, 1735 [and great-grandson of the immigrant, Francis-1 WHITMORE]. July 30, 1764, Samuel WHITMORE bought in Gorham of Alexander ROSS the thirty acre lot, 78. This land Mr. ROSS had purchased of Hon. Wm. SHIRLEY, Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. WHITMORE also owned that part of the 'Bryant Morton Strip' that lay south of his lot, and on this latter piece of land he built his house. The house, though it has undergone many changes and alterations, is probably the same now standing on the lot, and occupied by Willis I. BICKFORD. Mr. WHITMORE was a blacksmith by trade, and a man of worth and prominence. He was one of the selectmen of Gorham in 1773-4, and town treasurer from 1779 to 1803. In 1782 he was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety of this town. He was an ardent and zealous patriot, and served honorably in the war of the Revolution. May 10, 1776, he was appointed by the Governor and Council, captain of one of the Gorham companies of the 3rd Cumberland Co. regiment. Dec. 9, 1776, his name appears among a list of officers of the Mass. Militia, chosen by field officers, as captain of the Gorham and Pearsontown company of Col. Reuben FOGG's Cumberland Co. regiment of Militia. Capt. WHITMORE married, Oct. 24, 1764, Mary, daughter of Abel and Mary WHITNEY. Children: Lydia... Mary... Dorcas... John... Patience... Elizabeth R[oss]... Samuel [d. young]... Samuel... Joel... Sally... Joanna... Eunice... Capt. WHITMORE died Dec. 21, 1808."
Page 131: "During the Revolution... Capt. Samuel WHITMORE's company, together with Capt. Benjamin LARRABEE's Scarborough company, on Christmas day, 1777, started to march to Peekskill, N. Y. They were allowed a penny for each mile traveled; receiving for three hundred and ninety two miles the sum of £1-12s-8d."
Page 141: "Nor was it an idle boast that Gorham made when it declared that it would support Congress with its lives and fortunes. It voted to give Capt. Samuel WHITMORE and Lieut. Cary McLELLAN, each, six shillings a day for eight days, while after powder."
(2) Pierce, Josiah. A History of the Town of Gorham, Maine. Portland, Maine, Foster & Cushing, 1862. Page 218.
"Capt. Samuel WHITMORE was a prominent man in town previous to and during the revolution. He was a man of great decision of character, and executed promptly whatever he undertook. He was very patriotic and had a strong dislike of tories. It is related that, about 1774, there being suspicions that Richard KING, Esq., and a Dr. Abiathar ALDEN, of Scarborough, were tories, Capt. WHITMORE, and about forty men of the ardent 'Sons of Libert,' determined to make Mr. KING and Mr. ALDEN take an oath of allegiance to the American cause. Capt. WHITMORE and his volunteers went to Scarborough, and finding ALDEN, they made him kneel on a hogshead and swear 'a recantation oath'; thence proceeding to Mr. KING's house, they called upon him to declare his political creed, and he read a statement of his views upon the troubles between the Colonies and Great Britain. Some of the expressions in the statement not being up to the spirit of the Gorham men, they made Mr. KING kneel down and erase the offensive words. The act was wholly unauthorized and unjustifiable. It was not uncommon in those exciting times to compel men to renounce their opinions, and not a few loyalists were even tarred and feathered... Capt. WHITMORE married Mary WHITNEY and they had twelve children... all born between Aug. 5, 1765, and June 25, 1788. Capt. Samuel WHITMORE died on Dec. 21, 1808 -- the same month and year that his friend and military comrade, Col. Edwin PHINNEY, expired. Both did much to promote and secure our national Independence."
(3) Massachusetts, U.S., Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War via Ancestry.com
"WHITMORE, SAMUEL, Gorham. Captain, 3d (1st Gorham) co., 3d Cumberland Co. regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers chosen in said regiment; ordered in Council May 10, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned May 10, 1776; also, Captain, 1st (Gorhamtown) co., 3d Cumberland Co. regt. of Mass. militia; return dated Brunswick, Aug. 29, 1776, made by Samuel THOMPSON, of three regiments of militia in Cumberland Co., showing numbers and equipment; also Captain of a company raised in Gorham and Pearsontown; return dated Falmouth, Dec. 9, 1776, signed by Col. Jonathan MITCHELL and Col. Timothy PIKE, field officers in Cumberland Co., of officers appointed to command various companies drafted from the militia in accordance with an order of the General Court to serve under Col. Reuben FOGG; also, Captain, Col. Reuben FOGG's regt.; copy of a pay abstract for mileage [year not given]; mileage for 392 miles allowed said WHITMORE; also, Captain, return of men enlisted from said WHITMORE's (Gorham) co. to serve in the Continental Army for the term of 3 years, as returned by Capt. Briant MORTON, dated Gorham, March 28, 1778."
- "Samuel WHITMORE, son of John and Lydia (CUTTER) WHITMORE. He was born 4 Jul 1744, Cambridge, MA, and died 21 Dec 1808, Gorham, ME. He was also known as Capt."
(5) Maine, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index via Ancestry.com
- Name: Samuel WHITMORE
- State: ME
- County: Cumberland County
- Township: Gorham
- Year: 1799
- Page: 203
- Database: ME Early Census Index
(6) 1800 United States Census for Maine, Cumberland Co., Gorham: Series M32; Roll: 6; Page: 142; Image: 142
- Name: Saml WHITMORE
- Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Gorham, Cumberland, Maine
- Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2
- Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1
- Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
- Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
- Number of Household Members: 6
(7) Maine, U.S., Veterans Cemetery Records via Ancestry.com
- Name: Samuel WHITMORE
- Birth Date: 4 Jul 1744
- Birth Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Death Date: 21 Dec 1808
- Death Place: Gorham, Maine, United States
(8) Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records via Ancestry.com
- Name: Samuel WHITMORE
- Record Type: Birth
- Birth Date: 4 Jul 1744
- Birth Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Father: John WHITMORE
- Mother: Lydia WHITMORE
(9) Published by the Maine Genealogical Society. Compiled by Marquis F. King. Marquis Fayette King, comp., Publishments, marriages, births and deaths from the earlier records of Gorham, Maine (Portland, ME: Maine Genealogical Society, 1897).
- Marriage: Mary and Samuel WHITMORE, Oct. 1764.
(10) Maine, U.S., Marriage Records via Ancestry.com
- Name: Samuel WHITMORE
- Gender: Male
- Marriage Date: Oct 1764
- Marriage Place: Gorham, Maine, USA
- Spouse: Mary WHITNEY
- Film Number: 001205256
(11) Maine, U.S., Death Records via Ancestry.com
- Name: Capt Samuel WHITMORE
- Death Date: 21 Dec 1808
- Death Place: Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, USA