1John Kermott Allen, Thomas Bancroft of Dedham and Reading, Mass., and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR Vol. 94, p. 224 (Jul 1940).
"7. SAMUEL3 BANCROFT (Thomas,2 Thomas1), born 26 Dec. 1693, died 13 July 1772, aged 79,* and was buried near the First Congregational Church at Wakefield. He married first, at Reading, 26 Nov. 1713, SARAH LAMPSON, born 20 Oct. 1689, died 3 Jan. 1732/3, aged 43 years,† daughter of Samuel and Mary (Nichols) Lampson, and a sister of Elizabeth Lampson who married John3 Bancroft, brother of Samuel Bancroft; secondly, 22 Aug. 1733, SARAH LEATHE of Woburn, Mass.; and thirdly, at Reading, 24 Aug. 1761, MEHITABLE FITCH, who died at Reading 12 Apr. 1772.
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Children:
19. i. SAMUEL,4 b. 21 July 1715.
20. ii. WILLIAM, b. 13 Feb. 1717.
iii. EDMUND, b. 17 Dec. 1718; d. 8 Sept. 1740; buried near the First Congregational Church at Wakefield.
iv. NATHANIEL, b. 17 Mar. 1720. A Nathaniel Bancroft of Framingham, Mass., m. Mehitable ------- and had a son Nathaniel, b. at Framingham 15 oct. 1748.
v. SARAH, b. 6 Feb. 1721/2; m. 1 Apr. 1742 JAMES ABBOT of Concord, N. H., and moved to Newbury, Vt.
21. vi. JACOB, b. 10 Sept. 1723.
22. vii. JEREMIAH, b. 27 July 1725.
23. viii. CALEB, b. 17 June 1731.".