871Samuel Storer, mariner, Wells, Charlestown, receipted for his portion in upland and meadow 9 October 1674. From Wells he wrote to Mr. Corwin in November 1680 to introduce Jonathan Orris, and there, in 1685, master of brigantine Endeavor, sold half the vessel to Lewis Allen. At Boston 1692, asking aid for a preacher at Wells, having forty soldiers, no chaplain; with his sloop helped defend Wells in the Indian attack that year. . . . Widow Lydia (Littlefield) filed bond 23 December 1700; inventory included house and garden at Charlestown, land at Wells. On petition to sell (he left six children, five of them small0 she was authorized to sell the Wells land and keep the Charlestown property for support of her five children. L 20 were voted her by the General Court of York 15 February 1721-22, she and four last named children quit claimed Wells land to John Storer.
1724His heroic defense of the sloops in 1692 has already been described. For many years he ran a packet from Boston to the out ports to the eastward. His home was at Charlestown, but towards the end of his life he moved to York.
1725Samuel, Wells, brother of Joseph, was distinguished. in the defence against French and Indians of their position, commonly called Storer's garrison, 1692; but his resididence for several years was Charlestown, were he had William, baptized 28 June 1691; the f. call. of the ch. of York; Lydia, 4 March 1694; Mehitable, 10 May 1696; Jemima, 30 October 1698; and David, 27 October 1700. But probably after peace he went again to Maine. |