Samuel Bosworth

Samuel Bosworth (1755-1826) was the second child of Samuel Bosworth and Elizabeth Peck. During the early stages of the Revolutionary War, he enlisted in Billings Throope‘s Company of William Richmond’s Regiment. After this service, he served in William Throope‘s Company of Bristol Militia. During the 1778 British raid on Bristol and Warren, he “received a bad wound [in his leg] in the service but continued in it.” In 1782 in Barrington, Samuel married Tabitha Wardwell. The wedding took place in Barrington because of the total lack of pastors in Bristol at the time. Samuel and Tabitha had five children: Samuel, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and Samuel. In 1806, Samuel was an executor of the will of Jabez Gibbs. In 1820, he was a trustee of the Bristol Institution for Savings. In 1821 and 1825, he was the surveyor of revenue for the Port of Bristol. Upon the creation of the Bristol Marine Bible Society in 1822, Samuel was its treasurer. In 1826, he was a director of the Commercial Bank. He also held the office of surveyor in Bristol for many years. In 1836, Samuel’s widow, Tabitha, applied for a pension for his service, receiving $80 per year. Allen Wardwell, Tabitha’s Brother, testified of Samuel, “at the end of seven years in that service he left it poorer than he entered it… Having no profession and being enthusiastic in the cause of his country I question whether any man in the community was, in his sphere, more assiduously or constantly engaged in the revolutionary war than Samuel Bosworth.”