Ninth Generation

496. Rev. Capt. Samuel LUTHER³¹⁸ was born about 1636 in perhaps Boston, Massachusetts. He died on 20 December 1716 at the age of 80 in Swansea, Bristol Co., MA. He was buried in Kickemuit Cemetery, Barrington, RI. According to family tradition, he was born in Yocumtown, but no such town existed. It may have been an Indian name for Taunton. He may have been captured by Indians at Delaware Bay while with his father in 1644/5 at the age of 8. He was ransomed and returned. He was a pastor of the Baptist Church in Swansea. He was granted permission to work in Rehoboth in 1661. He was one of those drawing lots for the meadow lands in the North Purchase in 1668.

See Boyer, "Ancestral Lines," Third Edition, pp. 380-384. He has information about the possibility of tracing back to Martin Luther of Germany. Also Luther Genealogy, 1996. Mary ABELL and Rev. Capt. Samuel LUTHER were married about 1662 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA.²²²

497. Mary ABELL was born on 11 April 1642 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA.³¹⁹

Children were:

248	i.	Samuel LUTHER.
	ii.	Theophilus LUTHER was born on 9 October 1665.
	iii.	Mary LUTHER³²⁰ was born on 20 July 1668.
	iv.	Joshua LUTHER was born on 25 November 1670.
	v.	Elizabeth LUTHER was born on 2 February 1672.
	vi.	Experience LUTHER was born on 3 March 1675.
	vii.	Mehitabel LUTHER was born on 26 August 1676.
	viii.	Ebenezer LUTHER was born on 27 December 1678.
	ix.	Martha LUTHER was born on 9 December 1681 in Swansea, Bristol Co., MA. She died in 1765 at the age of 84 in Warren, RI.
	x.	Susanna LUTHER³²⁰ was born in 1686 in Swansea, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 6 April 1777 at the age of 91 in Little Compton, Newport Co., RI.