Samuel Varnum b. 8 Sep 1714 Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 17 Apr 1797: My Family Story

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1714 - 1797 (82 years)

Name	Samuel Varnum
Birth	8 Sep 1714	Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA [1]
Gender	Male
Death	17 Apr 1797
Person ID	I679	My Tree
Last Modified	7 Jun 2025

Father	Joseph Varnum, b. 15 Mar 1672, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 23 Dec 1749, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Ruth Jewett, b. 21 May 1681, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Nov 1728, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 47 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	3 Oct 1697	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Family ID	F177	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Sources

[S367] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;), Volume: 124; SAR Membership Number: 24741.
[S340] Compiled from Family Papers and Officials Records by John Marshall Varnum, of Boston., The Varnums of Dracutt (in Massachusetts): A History of Geroge Varnum, his son Samuel who came to Ipswich about 1635, and grandsons Thomas, John and Joseph, who settled in Dracutt, and their descendants, (Name: David Clapp & Son, Printers; Location: Boston; Date: 1907;), The Varnums of Dracutt, Storage 929.2 VAR.
Among the very first entries in the records of Dracutt, commemorating an event which occured many years previous, is the announcement, made by John Varnum, borther to Joseph, at that time Town Clerk: "Joseph and Ruth Jouett of Roully was lawfully marrid in Octobear ye 3 day in the year 1697."
Ruth was the daughter of Capt. Joseph and Ruth (Wood) Jewett, and was born about 1681. Her tombstone in the little burial-ground, near the "Navy Yard" in Dracutt, adjoining the spot where for many years, up to 1900, stood the old Garrison House, the residence of Col. John Varnum, which sheltered in times of apprehended or actual danger the early settlers of the neighborhood recites:
Here lyes buried ye body of
Mrs. Ruth Varnum
wf of Colonel Joseph Varnum
who dyed November ye 28, 1728,
In ye -8 year of her age.
[S69] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Town Marriage Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year ;).
[S345] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil;).
[S359] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
[S375] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.;), Birth year: 1681; Birth city: Ipswich; Birth state: MA.