SAMUEL BANNING

• Birth Notes
  •  was born in Lyme, CT about 1713 

• Death Notes
  • died in East Hartland, CT 22 April 1803

• General Notes
  • SAMUEL3 (John2,1) BANNING was born in Lyme, CT about 1713 and died in East Hartland, CT 22 April 1803, aged ninety (Hartland Church Records). He married second, in Hartland about 1767, ELEANOR (----), who was probably ELEANOR BARNES, born in East Haddam, 10 February 1730, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Barnes. She died in Hartland 20 September 1803 (HCR).
    
    Samuel inherited seventy acres in Lyme from his father, with the provision Samuel's step-mother Mary could live on it for her lifetime. It seems as if Samuel waited until Mary had died and then in 1763 sold his land in Lyme to the wealthy Samuel Ely, buying some in the new settlement of Hartland.
    
    The internet has a good description of Hartland, written by the residents:
    
    "Hartland , located in northwest Connecticut on the Massachusetts border was originally part of the Western Lands allotted to Hartford in 1667. It was established in May of 1761. The town's history is one of gradual and difficult cultivation of lands not naturally suited to agriculture. The elevation of the hills makes the pastures especially susceptible to heavy frosts, and early inhabitants had to drive their young livestock to other towns for grazing during parts of the year. These circumstances bred a particularly hardy sort of pioneer."
    Unfortunately, Hannah was not hardy. Amelia Eells gives us a description of her death:
    
    "The girls came on a week before their mother, her health not being good, to arrange things. The night after she arrived she reached up to take her night cap from the bed curtains, gave a groan, and soon died."
    Samuel bought about 60 acres for his son Samuel, Jr. on the west side of the Farmington river, and about 240 for himself on the East side. He gave (or sold for very little) most of his property to his children, at the end of his life giving the rest to his son David with the provision he could stay on  for the remainder of his life. It has been difficult to trace Samuel's children. Amelia Eels said he had eight children with Hannah and two with Eleanor; The First Banning Genealogy gave some hints: one daughter married a Chapman, one married first a Mack and then an Adams, another married Elijah Clark The list that follows is a mixture of diligent record searching and just plain luck.
    
    

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