Dana, *Samuel

The 1790 Census image for Samuel Dana shows him enumerated in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Living in Samuel's household is 3 white males over the age of 16, two white males under age 16, and six white females. There is nothing listed under the column for number of slaves.
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Ancestry.com Database: Groton, Massachusetts Vital Records

Rev. SAMUEL DANA and ANNA KENDRICK.

Luther Dana, born Aug. 13, 1763.
Amelia, " April 14, 1765.
Samuel, " June 26, 1767.
Thesta, " Aug. 14, 1769.
Anna, " June 16, 1771.
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Ancestry.com Database: Loyalists and Their Times, Vol. 1
page 92
Mr. Palfrey, under the head of "Presbyterian Cabal," states the following facts as to the treatment of Dr. Child, Mr. Dana, and others who proposed to make their appeal to the English Parliament: "Child and Dana, two of the remonstrants, were preparing to go to England with a petition to the Parliament from a number of the non-freemen. Informed of their intention, the magistrates ordered a seizure of their papers. The searching officers found in their possession certain memorials to the Commissioners for Plantations, asking for 'settled Churches according to the [Presbyterian] Reformation in England;' for the establishment in the colony of the laws of the realm; for the appointment of 'a General Governor, or some honourable Commissioner,' to reform the existing state of things. For this further offence, such of the prominent conspirators as remained in the country were punished by additional fines. Child and Dana were mulcted. in the sum of two hundred pounds; Mauerick, in that of a hundred and fifty pounds; and two others of a hundred pounds each."--Palfrey's History of New England [Abridged edition], Vol. I., pp. 327, 328.!

page 98
But was ever a petition to a local Legislature more constitutional, or more open and manly in the manner of its getting up, more Christian in its sentiments and objects? Yet the petitioners were arraigned and punished as "conspirators" and "disturbers of the public peace," by order of that Legislature, for openly petitioning to it against some of its own acts. Was ever appeal to the Imperial Parliament by British subjects more justifiable than that of Dr. Child, Mr. Dana, Mr. Vassal (progenitor of British Peers` and others, from acts of a local Government which deprived them of both religious rights of worship and civil rights of franchise, of all things earthly most valued by enlightened men, and without which the position of man is little better than that of goods and chattels? Yet the respectable men who appealed to the supreme power of the realm for the attainment of these attributes of Christian and British citizenship were imprisoned and heavily fined, and their private papers seized and sequestered ! [p.98]

(NOTE: I am certain this "Mr. Dana" mentioned above is the Hon. Rev. SAMUEL DANA who is mentioned in other info as stating his opposition to the Revolutionary War.)
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HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877
PREFACE
page 12
Amherst College, gave degree of D. D. to Rev. Nehemiah Adams, 303; Rev. William A. Stearns president of, 325; Amherst, Mass., Dr. Robert Cutler, 521; Dr. Gambell, 672; Amherst, N. H., Rev. Samuel Dana, 528; James Freeman Dana, 529; John Watson, 680
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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
page 278
DANA, SAMUEL, clergyman, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 14, 1739, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1787 he was made judge of probate for Hillsborough county; and in 1793 was elected a member of the New Hampshire state senate. He died April 1, 1798, in Amherst, N. H.
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HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877
PREFACE
page 201
DANA, ..... 527 REV. SAMUEL (Wm., Benj., Rd.) b. 14 Jan. 1739, H. C. 1755, settled at Groton 1760, dism. on acc. of supposed hostility to Rev. May 1775, rem. to Amherst, N. H., lawyer, judge of probate, state senator, memb. Constit. Conv. 1782, m. Anna Kendrick [(Capt. Caleb)] of Newton [6 May 1762), d. 2 Ap. 1798 [w. d. 16 Oct. 1810, a. 68]
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume III
Dana, Samuel

Dana, Samuel, jurist, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 14, (O.S.) 1739; son of William and Mary (Greene), grandson of Benjamin and Mary (Buckminster), and great-grandson of Richard Dana, who came from England in 1640, and Anne (Bullard), his wife. He was graduated from Harvard in 1755, was ordained to the ministry in 1761 and settled in Groton, Mass. In 1762 he was married to Anna, daughter of Capt. Caleb Kendrick of Newton, Mass. On the outbreak of the Revolution his sympathy with the crown brought him into disfavor with his parish and he resigned his charge May l5, 1775. For six years he supported himself by farming, preaching occasionally, and for a short time engaged in business. In 1781 he was admitted to the bar and became a successful lawyer in Amherst, Mass. In 1782 he was a delegate to the convention whose plans resulted in the constitution of 1783, and in the latter year declined a seat on the bench of common pleas. He was registrar of probate, 1785-89, and judge of probate, 1789-93. In 1793 he was a member of the state senate. His daughter, Mehitable Brown, was married in 1797 to the Hon. Samuel Bell (1770-1850). Judge Dana died in Amherst, Mass., April 1, 1798.
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From: Farns10th@@aol.com
Subject: [GM-L] New England Chronicle (Essex Gazette) 1775 Article on Rev. Samuel Dana
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:48:55 EDT


Subject: "The New England Chronicle or, The Essex Gazette"
June 8, 1775 Article - Rev. Samuel Dana

Source: Groton Historical Series by Dr. Samuel A. Green Vol I Chapter XIV

p.13-14

"The Essex Gazette" newspaper, at the beginning of the Revolution, was
removed from Salem to Cambridge [MA], where it was published under the
name of "The New-England Chronicle: or, the Essex Gazette." It was
printed in Stoughton Hall, Harvard College.

Dr. Green's Note:

It is well known that the Reverend Samuel Dana, minister of Groton from
the year 1761 to 1775, at the outbreak of the Revolution, was in sym-
pathy with the Crown. His political views made him unpopular and caus-
ed his dismissal from the parish.

The following notice, by no means clearly expressed, is found in "The
New-England Chronicle or, the Essex Gazette," June 8, 1775:

"Groton, May 15, 1775"
"The inhabitants of Groton in Town Meeting assembled, the Rev. Samuel
Dana offered that to the Town with Regard to his political Principles
and Conduct, with which the Town voted themselves fully satisfied, and
that he ought to enjoy the Privileges of Society in common with other
Members, and we hope this, with the following by him subscribed, will
be fully satisfactory to the Publick.

Signed by the Committee of Correspondence for Groton

Oliver Prescott
James Prescott
Josiah Sartell
Isaac Farnsworth
Moses Child
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Apology of Rev. Dana:

"I, the Subscriber, being deeply affected with the Miseries bro't on
this country, by a horrid Thirst for ill-got Wealth, and unconstitu-
tional Power - and lamenting my Unhappiness, in being left to adopt
Principles in Politics different from the Generality of my Countrymen;
and thence to conduct in a Manner that has but too justly excited the
jealousy and resentment of the true Sons of Liberty against me, earn-
estly desirous, at the same time, to give them all the Satisfaction in
my power; do hereby sincerely ask Forgiveness of all such for whatever
I have said or done, that had the least Tendency to the Injury of my
Country, assuring them that it is my full Purpose, in my proper Sphere,
to unite with them, in all those laudable and fit Measures, that have
been recommended by the Continental and Provincial Congresses, for the
Salvation of this Country, hoping my future Conversation and Conduct
will fully prove the Uprightness of my present Professions.

[signed] Samuel Dana"
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Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
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