Samuel Bolles1 
b. 12 March 1646
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6th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Fairfield and Allied Families
Samuel Bolles was born on 12 March 1646 in Wells, York County, Maine.1 He was the son of Joseph Bolles Gent. and Mary Howell.1 He married Mary Dyer, daughter of William Dyer.1
Samuel Bolles was a husbandman.1 He witnessed an Indian deed as a youth in 1661.1 He was mentioned in his father Joseph Bolles's will dated 18 September 1678 in Wells, York County, Maine.2
He was living in 1689 in Dyer's Neck, Sheepscot, Maine, during Indian attacks and escaped to Massachusetts.1 He was living in 1712/13 in Rochester when he sold Sheepscot and Wells lands.3
Samuel Bolles was a husbandman.1 He witnessed an Indian deed as a youth in 1661.1 He was mentioned in his father Joseph Bolles's will dated 18 September 1678 in Wells, York County, Maine.2
He was living in 1689 in Dyer's Neck, Sheepscot, Maine, during Indian attacks and escaped to Massachusetts.1 He was living in 1712/13 in Rochester when he sold Sheepscot and Wells lands.3 Additional Data
The lands at Dyer's Neck in Maine (600 acres) were conveyed in 1712 and in 1732 to Henry Flint of Cambridge by Samuel Boles of Rochester, Plymouth Co., husbandman, and wife Mary, daughter of William Dyer and by William Dyer of Weymouth, eldest son of Christopher Dyer, the eldest son of the first William Dyer.4
On 19 January 1732/33, "John Dyer aged about 85 years, formerly an inhabitant of New Dartmouth, alias Sheepscot, now living in Braintree, Norfolk, Made affidavit that he was living with his father William above 60 years ago for several years at said Sheepscot or Dyer's Neck, whose eldest son was Christopher, and he also had one daughter Mary who afterwards intermarried with one Samuel Bowles. His said father was killed by Indians on said Neck in or about August above 42 years since and in the lifetime of his eldest son Christopher; and himself was grievously wounded in several parts of his body by the same party of Indians and was carried by his brother Christopher to a doctor at Pemaquid, and some few months after his eldest brother Christopher was himself about the month of December killed by Indians, and Christopher left a son William, his eldest son, besides some other children, which William now lives at Weymouth in Co. of Suffolk."5
In an affidavit of Esther Roberts of Boston, aged about 64 years, she says that she very well knew William Dyer of Sheepscot father of Christopher and John and Mary who married Samuel Bowles, said Christopher was said William's eldest son and had by his first wife two sons William, and John and one daughter Grace who married one Allicet. The first William Dyer lived on a neck of land called Dyer's Neck and had a house, field, orchard, garden, and cattle, and at the same time a little distance from him on said neck, his second son John. The said William Dyer was mending his garden or orchard fence when the Indians came and knocked him down which I saw, and they killed and scalped him and wounded grievously his second son John Dyer but he recovered of his wounds. Christopher Dyer was killed by the Indians a few months afterwards which I also well remember upwards of 40 years ago: dated Mar. 31, 1733.6
On 19 January 1732/33, "John Dyer aged about 85 years, formerly an inhabitant of New Dartmouth, alias Sheepscot, now living in Braintree, Norfolk, Made affidavit that he was living with his father William above 60 years ago for several years at said Sheepscot or Dyer's Neck, whose eldest son was Christopher, and he also had one daughter Mary who afterwards intermarried with one Samuel Bowles. His said father was killed by Indians on said Neck in or about August above 42 years since and in the lifetime of his eldest son Christopher; and himself was grievously wounded in several parts of his body by the same party of Indians and was carried by his brother Christopher to a doctor at Pemaquid, and some few months after his eldest brother Christopher was himself about the month of December killed by Indians, and Christopher left a son William, his eldest son, besides some other children, which William now lives at Weymouth in Co. of Suffolk."5
In an affidavit of Esther Roberts of Boston, aged about 64 years, she says that she very well knew William Dyer of Sheepscot father of Christopher and John and Mary who married Samuel Bowles, said Christopher was said William's eldest son and had by his first wife two sons William, and John and one daughter Grace who married one Allicet. The first William Dyer lived on a neck of land called Dyer's Neck and had a house, field, orchard, garden, and cattle, and at the same time a little distance from him on said neck, his second son John. The said William Dyer was mending his garden or orchard fence when the Indians came and knocked him down which I saw, and they killed and scalped him and wounded grievously his second son John Dyer but he recovered of his wounds. Christopher Dyer was killed by the Indians a few months afterwards which I also well remember upwards of 40 years ago: dated Mar. 31, 1733.6
Children of Samuel Bolles and Mary Dyer
- Joanna Bolles3 d. 1756
- Mary Bolles3 b. 4 Sep 1692
- Bethiah Bolles3 b. 4 Sep 1692
- Experience Bolles3 b. 4 Sep 1692
- Joseph Bolles3 b. 4 Sep 1692
- Samuel Bolles3 b. 4 Sep 1692, d. a 3 Oct 1764
- Jonathan Bolles3 b. 4 Sep 1692, d. b 7 Jun 1773
- William Bolles3 b. 11 Nov 1694
- Deliverance Bolles3 b. 27 Jun 1699, d. b 1770
Citations
- [S749] Charles Thornton Libby, compiler, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928), 101.
- [S751] Maine Historical Society, compiler, Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (n.p.: Maine Historical Society, 1887), 82-84, Registry of Deeds, 5, 34.
- [S749] Charles Thornton Libby, Libby, 102.
- [S752] Descendants of William Dyer of Sheepscot, Maine, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>, citing York Deeds 15-226, 227.
- [S752] Dyer, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>, citing York Deeds 15-227. [Sprague #1464]
- [S752] Dyer, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/dyer.htm>, citing York Deeds 14-228. [Sprague #1464]
