Samuel WEEKS - Weeks is a Devonshire name and
has been variously written as Wick, Wyke, Week, Weekes and Weeks. Leonard
Weeks came from England with his two brothers. Leonard made his home in
Greenland, N.H. and married Mary, daughter of Deacon Samuel Haines of Portsmouth.
Leonard was an influential man. They had four sons, John, Samuel, Jonathan
and Joshua. Samuel Weeks married Abigail Moody, of Gilmanton and on 10
November 1803, their fourth child Samuel was born in Gilmanton. The following
March, 1804, Samuel and his wife moved to Canaan, VT. The son Samuel was
educated early in the school of labor but had very little education in
the common schools.
He married on March 29, 1829, at age 26, to Gennett,
daughter of Joseph and Naomi [Chamberlin] Hilliard. She was born in Colebrook,
NH, January 8, 1810. Gennett came from an old and well-esteemed family.
Samuel built and occupied three successful farms until he retired. But
farming wasn’t his only vocation. He was one of the first to foresee the
value of timber in the upper Coos County and had invested in a 1000 acres
of prime land. He became a pioneer in the lumber business in the Upper
Connecticut River valley. Not given much to speech he has shown himself
as a wise, thoughtful and gracious man and his acts have ever spoken for
him. A Democrat in politics and Universalist in religion he was known as
a man worthy of trust.
[Engraving
by E.B. Hall’s Sons, New York]
Source:
Gazetteer
of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT; 1764-1887, by Hamilton Child,
May, 1887, page 416.
Additional
information available from Tom Dunn
who provided this photo and biographical sketch.
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