Samuel Harrington
- May 9
- 1 min read
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 Robinson by the Rev. Mr. Moses Everett. They lived in Dorchester until 1796 when they removed to Worcester. Silence and Samuel had eight children: Susanna, Samuel, Lucretia, James, Sarah, Ebenezer, Mary, and Austin.
He and his brother Noah ran a tavern in Boston for a time, and a hotel in Worcester on what is now Route 122 near the Grafton Line beginning in the mid-1790s. Samuel was also a Massachusetts State Legislator in 1823.
He died in Worcester on March 27, 1838. He was originally buried in the Mechanic Street Burying Ground but was moved to Hope Cemetery in 1878.
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