Samuel BRIGHAM, CAPT.

                   Old Common Burial Ground
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Here Lyes Buried
The Body of Capt Samuel Brigham
Desceased July the 24, 1713
in the 59th year of his age
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Gravestone
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The History of the Brigham Family.The Grafton Press. New York. 1907
Samuel, at the time of his mother's marriage to Edmund Rice, was 3 years old, and went with her to Sudbury and Marlborough. The glimpses we have of his early manhood are meagre. We first note that he had a "25 acre grant in the first laying out of Worcester, in 1673; it lying in the Eastern Squadron next to the County Road to Boston." He was a lieutenant of Capt. Thomas Howe and was rewarded by government for military services in Queen Anne's War. A garrison was established at his house in this war. Feb. 25, 1694, he sold 2 lots of meadow in Marlborough to Thomas Beman. In 1707 he drew a lot of 21 acres and a lot of 103 acres south of Tobacco Meadow, bounded by the path to his Stony Brook Meadow, where, in his right, his heirs drew other lots. April 23, 1708, he purchased of Obadiah Ward, Jr., a 10 1/2-acre right in the lands of Marlborough; and in that year he became bound for Joseph Parre to Francis Holmes of Boston in the penal sum of 100. In the years 1699 and 1703, it has been stated, he was town treasurer, although Hudson says that the town records for that period are missing. He was selectman in 1707 and 1710, and representative to the General Court in 1697-99 and in 1705. According to Hudson, he resided three-fourths of a mile east of the East Village, near the old tanyard of the late Capt. Daniel Brigham.

To Samuel Brigham is due the honor of founding in old Marlborough the tanning and shoe trades. Many of Samuel's descendants are in the shoe business in Marlborough, in one capacity or another, as are also the descendants of Thomas2. The first tannery in the town was erected by Samuel2 about 1700, near his dwelling house on present East Main Street, one-quarter of a mile east of the old Village Academy. This tannery, which is said to have been the first west of Charlestown, descended in regular succession (Jedediah3, Winslow4, Daniel5) to Capt. Daniel6, who retired from active business in the early 1850's, when the tannery ceased to be used. In 1859 Capt. Daniel's son Dennison owned the site. For many years the tannery was being taken down piecemeal, and it was wholly demolished by 1876. The place is now owned by Francis C. Curtis, who married a Brigham, and through the kindness of Timothy Brigham Patch, we were permitted to see the outlines of the tanyard as it looked some fifty or a hundred years ago when the plant was at its highest development. An eye witness in 1894 might have seen a rectangular field by the roadside (Main Street), of about an acre in extent, enclosed by stone walls, wherein towered a magnificent old elm; hard by an ancient well spring, covered by one of the stones formerly used for grinding bark (the other stones serving as a backdoor step at the house of Mr. Curtis, a few rods distant). To the north of the spring were remains of the old Samuel "ffats," of small size, whose chestnut timbers are well preserved. Near by used to stand a curry shop, bark shed, bark mill, and a second curry shop which served sometimes for a dwelling. This last has been converted into a house known as "Glen Cottage." The main part of the old Jedediah3 house is about 20 x 40 feet, falling off to a leanto on the side, which was built in 1718 or thereabouts. It has been removed to No. 36 School Street. An ell had been removed to an adjoining lot a short time before we saw the house. End





It is interesting to record that from Susan's (Shattuck) last marriage, one of her descendants [actually it was her husband Thomas' brother Samuel] was Peter Bent Brigham who left a sum of $1,000,000 which was not to be spent until 25 years after his death. By this time the fund had grown to $2,000,000 and was used to build the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a world famous medical research hospital connected with Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.

Source: "Fay Genealogy - John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants" by Orlin P. Fay, 1898, page 13.

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
1911 The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital is established "for the care of sick persons in indigent circumstances" with a bequest from restauranteur and real estate baron Peter Bent Brigham.
1914 The Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, founded with a bequest from Peter Bent Brighams nephew, opens to serve patients with arthritis and other debilitating joint diseases.



Massachusetts Archives Collection (1629-1799)
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ArchivesSearch/RevolutionaryDetail.asp?Vol=112&Page=217
Volume Number 112
Page 217
Summary PETITION SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL COURT BY THOMAS KING AND OTHERS REQUESTING A GRANT OF LAND AT KUNNAPOUG FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PLANTATION.
Number of Pages 1
Condition
Series 2043 : RECORDS : GENERAL COURT
Cite MASS RECS 4, PT 2: 500
Copy Type Original
Original Date (yyyy/mm/dd) 1671/05/31
Other Dates
Seals No
Geographic Locations BOSTON (MA)
CONNECTICUT RIVER
Marlborough (MA)

Personal Names : Signature Type BARNES, RICHARD (BARNS) : Transcript
BEERS, ELEAZAR (BEERES) : Transcript
BEERS, RICHARD (BEERES) : Autograph
BENT, PETER : Transcript
BRIDGHAM, SAMUEL : Transcript
BRIGHAM, JOHN : Transcript
BRIGHAM, THOMAS : Transcript
FAY, JOHN : Transcript
HOWE, JOHN (HOW, JR.) : Transcript
HOWE, JOHN (HOW, SR.) : Transcript
KING, THOMAS : Transcript
PARK, THOMAS : Transcript
RAWSON, EDWARD : Autograph
RICE, EDWARD : Transcript
RICE, JOSEPH : Transcript
RICE, SAMUEL : Transcript
RICE, THOMAS : Transcript
TORREY, WILLIAM : Autograph
WETHERBEE, JOHN (WITHERBEE) : Transcript