Samuel Root 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 17 Oct 1705 - Northampton, Massachusetts 1 2
    Christening: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Thomas Root (1667-1756) 3
         Mother: Thankful Strong (1672-1742)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Mercy Parker (10 Dec 1710 -       )
       Marriage: 12 Mar 1729 - Coventry, Tolland Co., Ct 4
       Children:
                1. Samuell Root (1729-      )
                2. Mary Root (1731-      )
                3. Josiah Root (1733-      )
                4. Phebe Root (1735-      )
                5. Rufus Root (1737-      )
                6. Zeruiah Root (1740-      )
                7. Nathan Root (1742-      )
                8. Lemuel Root (1744-      )
                9. Tabitha Root (1747-      )
                10. Ezra Root (1749-      )
                11. Lois Root (1751-      )
                12. Elias Root (1754-      )
                13. Triphene Root (1756-      )
Notes
General:
BIRTH:

Samuel's birth record is on page 99 of Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut 1711-1844 by Susan Whitney Dimock. Below the birth record for Samuel is the comment "What is above written was taken out of the Records from Northampton". That comment appears to apply to 9 children with surname Root born sequentially from July 1692 to September 1707 followed by Ephraim Root born December 1709, presumably in Coventry.

I assume that Northampton is Northampton, Massachusetts.


HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ELDER JOHN STRONG OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS. (Benjamin W. Dwight, 1871), Vol II, pg 956:

[4th. Gen.]
17780-1. viii. SAMUEL ROOT (son of Dea. Thomas Root and Thankful Strong) b. Oct. 17, 1705: a farmer in Willington Ct. He m. March 12, 1728, Mercy Parker. His children were all born in Coventry before his removal to Willington except Tryphena, the last.

[5th Gen.] Children:
17853. i. SAMUEL Root b. Aug. 26, 1729.
17854. ii. MARY Root b. Feb. 10, 1731.
17855-6. iii. JOSIAH Root b. Sept. 17, 1733, a farmer at Willington. He m. May 17, 1764, Miriam Whiting. He d. March 28, 1786. He had 8 children. See Root Genealogy, p. 147.
17857. iv. PHEBE Root b. July 31, 1735.
17858. v. RUFUS Root b. Aug. 30, 1737, d. at Lake George, Dec. 5, 1756.
17859. vi. ZERUIAH Root b. April 7, 1740.
17860-1. vii. LT. NATHAN Root b. June 13, 1742; a farmer in Willington, Ct. He m. May 6, 1763, Hannah Scripture. He d. about 1839. He had 5 children.
17862. viii. LEMUEL Root b. May 6, 1744.
17863. ix. TABITHA Root b. March 7, 1747.
17864. x. EZRA Root b. April 27, 1749.
17865. xi. LOIS Root b. May 27, 1751.
17866. xii. ELIAS Root b. March 23, 1754.
17867. xiii. TRYPHENA Root b. July 20, 1756.
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Sources

1 Susan Whitney Dimock, "Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut 1711-1844," 1897, pg 99. Repository: http://www.archive.org/stream/birthsmarriagesb00dimo#page/n5/mode/2up.

2 Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Northampton > Births, Marriages and Death, pg 40. Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.

3 Benjamin W. Dwight, History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass, 1871, pg 952. Repository: http://books.google.com.

4 Susan Whitney Dimock, "Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut 1711-1844," 1897, pg 160. Repository: http://www.archive.org/stream/birthsmarriagesb00dimo#page/n5/mode/2up.

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