Samuel Fitch

Samuel Fitch
Member of the
House of Representatives
of the
Colony of Connecticut
from Norwalk[1]
In office
May 1736 – October 1736
Serving with Samuel Hanford
Preceded byJames Lockwood,
Samuel Hanford
Succeeded bySamuel Hanford,
John Betts, Jr.
In office
October 1741 – October 1743
Preceded byJohn Betts, Jr.,
John Belding, Jr.
In office
May 1744 – October 1748
Succeeded byJames Lockwood,
Joseph Platt, Jr.
In office
May 1750 – October 1751
Serving with Joseph Platt, Jr.
Preceded byJames Lockwood,
Joseph Platt, Jr.
Succeeded byJames Lockwood,
David Lambert
In office
May 1752 – May 1753
Serving with Joseph Platt, Jr.
Preceded byJames Lockwood,
David Lambert
Succeeded byJames Fitch,
Noah Taylor
In office
October 1753 – October 1754
Preceded byJames Fitch,
Noah Taylor
Succeeded byJoseph Platt, Jr.,
James Fitch
In office
October 1760 – October 1761
Serving with Joseph Platt, Jr.
Preceded byJoseph Platt, Jr.,
Joseph Betts
Succeeded byPeter Lockwood,
Thomas Fitch, V
Personal details
BornJuly 1701[2][3]
Norwalk, Connecticut Colony[3][4]
Died1787[4]
Norwalk, Connecticut[4]
Spouse(s)Susannah Belden Whiting[4][5] (daughter of Daniel Belden, widow of William Whiting)
ChildrenSusannah Fitch Church, Elizabeth Fitch Rogers (m. Nehemiah Rogers),[3] Samuel Jr., Daniel Fitch, Anne Fitch St. John (m. Stephen St. John), Jonathan Fitch[4]
Residence(s)Norwalk, Connecticut Colony[3]

Samuel Fitch (July 1701 – 1787) was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1736, October 1741, May and October 1742, May 1743, May and October 1744, May and October 1745, May and October 1746, May and October 1747, May 1748, May and October 1750, May 1751, May and October 1752, October 1753, May 1754, October 1760, May 1761.

He was the son of Thomas Fitch III (1675–1731), and brother of Governor Thomas Fitch.[3][6]

He was a New England King's Commissioner, and a large land proprietor. He inherited the tract of land which adjoins the harbor to the east of Gregory Point.[3]

On May 27, 1743, he was named auditor of the colonial treasury.[7]

  1. ^ An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. ^ Register of the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America
  3. ^ a b c d e f The Heroes of the American Revolution and Their Descendants
  4. ^ a b c d e "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MW3P-YVS : accessed 2014-05-30), entry for Samuel FITCH.
  5. ^ New England Marriages Prior to 1700
  6. ^ Norwalk After Two Hundred & Fifty Years
  7. ^ Norwalk vol.1