♂Samuel Sturtevant

Samuel Sturtevant was a settler of Plymouth in Plymouth Colony^W, where the births of nine of his children were entered in the town register between 1647 and 1666. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his daughter Ann Sturtevant (1647–1720).

Family

The Plymouth register of births, written in his case “Samuell Sturtivant”, records his daughter Ann on 4 June 1647; a son John, born 17 October 1650, who died on the 30th of the same month; then Mary in 1651, Samuel in 1654, Hannah in 1656, a second John in 1658, Lydia in 1660, James in February 1663 (1664 in the modern reckoning) and Joseph on 16 July 1666. None of these entries names the children’s mother. Ann married John Waterman at Plymouth on 7 December 1665, and the line descends through their son Robert Waterman.

At Plymouth

A published history of the John Howland family records that on 28 December 1667 he witnessed the deed of gift by which John Howland^W, a passenger on the Mayflower, gave land to his son John Howland of Barnstable. Samuel’s own son Samuel was then thirteen, so the witness was most likely the father. A history of Maine families published in 1909 says that he was settled at Plymouth by November 1640 and lived on a property called the “Cotton Farm”.

Death and widow

The Mayflower Society’s genealogy of the John Alden^W family gives his death at Plymouth between 1 August and 29 October 1669. The same work and Robert Charles Anderson’s The Great Migration Begins both record that Hannah, the widow of Samuel Sturtevant, married John Bass at Braintree on 21 September 1675; Bass was the widower of Ruth Alden, a daughter of John Alden. The records do not show whether Hannah was the mother of his children.