Samuel Harrington was born around 1754 in Eastern Massachusetts to Joshua and Mary Harrington. He and his brother Noah moved to the Worcester area from eastern Massachusetts some time before the Revolutionary War. Samuel was a Private in Capt. Bigelow’s militia company and marched from Worcester on the Lexington Alarm on April 19, 1775. At some point during or very shortly after the war he moved to Dorchester, MA On November 19, 1782 he was joined in marriage to Silence Ro

"He was one of the number who threw the Tea overboard in Boston Harbour in 1773, and afterwards served in the Revolutionary War -- He was a brave soldier, valuable citizen, and an honest man.