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the General Court decreed that the Widow Luther have the balance of her
husband's wages according to sea custom, after allowing to the merchants
what they had paid for the redemption of her son. This act no doubt had
reference to John Luther.
Through Samuel and Hezekiah Luther, sons of Capt. John, have
descended the Luthers of the territory to which we have alluded. Of
these Samuel was born in 1638, probably in Bo ston or vicinity. He is
referred to as of Rehoboth, Feb. 27, 1661. On Oct. 19, 1672, he made a
claim or demand for his father's purchase in Taunton. In the year 1685
Samuel Luther succeeded Rev. John Miles as Elder of the Baptist Church
in Swansea, Mr. Miles having died in 1683. Mr. Luther is referred to as Rev.
Capt. Samuel Luther. He continued in charge of the Swansea Church for
thirty-two years. He died Dec. 20, 1716, and was buried in the Kickemuit
Cemetery, in what is now Warren, R. I., where also rests the remains of
his brother Hezekiah, who died July 28, 1723, aged eighty-three years. The
children of Elder Samuel Luther, according to Rehoboth town records,
were: Samuel, Theophilus, and Mary; and in the father's will are men-
tioned also :
Joshua, Ebenezer, Susannah, Mehitabel, and Martha, Joanna
m. Nathaniel Wilmarth May 27, 1704, d. May 31, 1706.
(II) Hezekiah Luther, son of Capt. John, the settler, born in 1640,
probably in Taunton, died July 23, 1723, aged 83. He married (first) Nov.
30, 1661, Elizabeth, in Dorchester, Mass., and (second) Sarah Butterworth,
who died Aug. 22, 1722. His children were: John, born in 1663; Nathaniel,
in 1664 (by the first union); Joseph, Feb. 12, 1669; EUzabeth, Dec.
29, 1671; Edward, April 27, 1674; Hezekiah, Aug. 27, 1676; and Hannah
(by the second union). The father was a carpenter and hved in Swansea.
(III) Lieut. Hezekiah Luther, son of Hezekiah, born Aug. 27, 1676,
was married March 23, 1704, to Martha Gardner, and died Oct 27,
1763, survived by his wife only until Nov. 2, 1763. Their children, all born
in Swansea, were: Robert, born Dec. 13, 1704; Levi, Aug. 4, 1706; Esek,
Dec. 6, 1708; Constant, Oct. 4, 1711; Lydia, Sept. 19, 1714; Simeon, May
19, 1717; Edward, Feb. 15, 1719; Martha, Nov. 28, 1721; Sarah, Aug. 2,
1724; Avis, Dec. 17, 1726; Hezekiah, Feb. 19, 1728; and Calvin, Aug. 9,
1731.
(IV) Edward Luther, son of Lieut. Hezekiah, born Feb. 15, 1719,
married March 13, 1745, Sarah Sweet, of Prudence, R. I., and died March
7, 1776. Their children, all born in Swansea, were: James, born Feb. 19,
1747; Sarah, May 10, 1748; Abner, June 27, 1750; Martha, Oct. 21, 1752;
Edward, Nov. 10, 1754; Gardner, EUzabeth, and Sweet, triplets, Feb. 19,
1757; Peleg, Jan. 2, 1760; Freelove, March 15, 1762; Samuel, April 26,
1764; and Elizabeth, April 15, 1766.
(V) Samuel Luther, son of Edward, bom April 26, 1764, died Nov.
15, 1835. He married Rebekah Brown, born April 30, 1763, died April 10,
1813, daughter of Aaron and Catherine (Bell) Brown, and their children
were: Joseph Gardner, born Dec. 31, 1789, is mentioned below; Thomas
Sweet, born March 14, 1792, married Elizabeth A. Taylor, and had two
children, Virginia B., and Georgia Sweet, both of whom are deceased; John
Brown, born Oct. 16, 1794; married Lydia Luther, and died Feb. 21, 1823;
(they had one son, John B., born Dec. 19, 1822, died March 24, 1910,
unmarried); Samuel Sweet, born Feb. 14, 1799, died Oct. 18, 1823.
Samuel Luther was a sea captain. His fraternal relations were with the
Masons, affiliating with the lodge at Warren, Rhode Islemd.
(VI) Joseph Gardner Luther, son of Samuel, born Dec. 31, 1789,
died June 13, 1857. March 26, 1821, he married in Swansea, Tamer Luther,
born Dec. 2, 1800, died Sept. 24, 1892, daughter of (VI) James and Tamer
(Hale) Mason Luther, granddaughter of (V) James and Mercy (Cole)
Chase Luther, great granddaughter of (IV) James and Martha (Slade)