Some Descendants of Thomas Curtis of Scituate

  1. Elizabeth Curtis was baptised in the Second Parish in Scituate in 1649. [HSM, p. 252]
  2. Samuel Curtis was baptised in the Second Parish in Scituate in 1659. [HSM, p. 252] He died on 2 Jun 1742 in Scituate. [MVRS] He married Elizabeth Tilden in 1690. [HSM, p. 354]
    1. Elizabeth Curtis, daughter Samuel (son Thomas of York) was born on 10 Oct 1694 in Scituate. [MVRS]
    2. Samuel Curtis, son Samuel (son Thomas of York) was born on 26 Sep 1695 in Scituate. [MVRS]
    3. Benjamin Curtis, son Samuel (son Thomas of York) was born on 2 May 1699 in Scituate. [MVRS] Benjamin, husband Rebecca, died on 20 Jun 1771, age73, in Scituate. [MVRS] Benjamin Jr. married Rebecca House on 15 Jul 1723 in Scituate. [MVRS] Rebecca, wife Benjamin, died on 29 Jun 1780, age 80, in Scituate. [MVRS] Benjamin and Rebecca are buried in the in the First Church of Norwell Unitarian Church graveyard. [FG]
      1. Samuel Curtis, son Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 2 Apr 1724 in Scituate. [MVRS] Samuel married Rachel Briggs [HSM, p. 253] after 26 Oct 1745, when they published their intention in Scituate. [MVRS]
        1. Elizabeth Curtis, daughter Samuel and Rachel, was born on 14 Nov 1746 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        2. Job Curtis, son Samuel and Rachel, was born on 3 Jul 1748 in Scituate. [MVRS] Job married Abagail Beal of Hingham on 8 Dec 1770, in Hingham in Scituate. [MVRS]
        3. Samuel Curtis, son Samuel and Rachel, was born on 15 Jun 1750 in Scituate. [MVRS] He died in Marshfield. [HSM, p. 253] Samuel 3rd married Ruth Nash [HSM, p. 252] on 10 Apr 1777 in Scituate. [MVRS]
          1. Charles Curtis, son Samuel 3rd and Ruth, was born on 5 Nov 1778 in Scituate. [MVRS]
          2. Ammiel Curtis [HSM, p. 252], son Samuel 3rd and Ruth, was born on 5 Aug 1781 in Scituate. [MVRS]
          3. Eleanor Curtis, daughter Samuel 3rd and Ruth, was born on 26 Oct 1783 in Scituate. [MVRS]
          4. Samuel Curtis was town clerk of Marshfield. [HSM, p. 253]
        4. Enoch Curtis, son Samuel and Rachel, was born in Sep [illegible] in Scituate. [MVRS] Curtis, son Samuel, was baptised on 29 Oct 1752 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        5. Christopher Curtis, son Samuel and Rachel, was born on 27 Sep 1754 in Scituate. [MVRS]
      2. Job Curtis, son Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 9 Mar 1726 in Scituate. [MVRS]
      3. Benjamin Curtis, son Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 12 May 1728 in Scituate. [MVRS]] Benjamin Jr. married Mary Cole on 3 Dec 175[5] in Scituate. [MVRS]
        1. Sarah Curtis, daughter Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 22 Sep 1757 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        2. Rebecca Curtis, daughter Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 10 Aug 1760 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        3. Benjamin Curtis, son Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 15 Sep 1762 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        4. Jonathan Curtis, son Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 22 Mar 1765 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        5. Lucy Curtis, daughter Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 25 Aug 1766 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        6. Stephen Curtis, son Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 21 Oct 1768 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        7. Mary Curtis, daughter Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 7 Sep 1771 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        8. Lendal Curtis, son Benjamin Jr. and Mary, was born on 24 Jul 1775 in Scituate. [MVRS]
      4. Rebecca Curtis, daughter Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 17 Aug. 17, 1730 in Scituate. [MVRS] Rebecca married Benjamin Briggs on 1 Aug 1758 in Scituate. [MVRS]
      5. James Curtis, son Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 2 Feb 1732 in Scituate. [MVRS] He died in 1820, unmarried, in Scituate. [HSM, p. 253]
      6. Charles Curtis, son Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 26 Jul 1744 in Scituate. [MVRS] Charles married Lydia James on 7 Feb 1771 in Scituate. [MVRS] Lydia was the daughter of Dea. John James and Prudence Stuanton [Stanton?] of Stonington. [HSM, p. 293] She was born in 1749. [HSM, p. 254]
      7. Lieut. Elijah Curtis, son Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 25 May 1735 in Scituate. [MVRS] Elijah married first Abigail Sole [HSM, p. 253] on 28 Jun 17[56] in Scituate. [MVRS] He married second Zipporah Randall on 5 Jan 1769 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        1. Zintha (Cynthia) Curtis, daughter Elijah and Abegal, 21 May 1757 in Scituate. [MVRS] Zintha married Noah Nickols after 18 Jun 1774, when they published their intention in Scituate. [MVRS]
        2. Bartlit Curtis, son Elijah and Abigal, was born on 1 Dec 1758 in Scituate. [MVRS]
        3. Capt. Elijah Curtis, son Elijah and Abigal, was born on 16 Jan 1761 in Scituate. [MVRS]
          He was referred to as Capt. Elijah. [HSM, p. 253]
        4. Nehemiah Curtis, son of Elijah and Zipporah [HSM, p. 253]
        5. Col. James Curtis, son of Elijah and Zipporah [HSM, p. 253]
          1. Phebe Curtis married Thomas Perkins in 1828. [HSM, p. 322] Thomas was the son of John Perkins and the grandson of Luke Perkins. [HSM, p. 322]
      8. Mary Curtis, daughter Benjamin and Rebecca, was born on 15 Aug 1737 in Scituate. [MVRS]
    4. Abigail Curtis, daughter Samuel (son Thomas of York) and Elizabeth, was born on 17 Jan 1703/4 in Scituate. [MVRS] Abigail married Joseph Thomas of Tivertown on 7 May 1744 in Scituate. [MVRS]
  3. Benjamin Curtis [HSM, p. 252] was of Portsmouth. [HSM, p. 252]

References

HSM Deane, Samuel, History of Scituate Massachusetts, Digital Scanning Inc, 2002. Online: Google Books.
MVRS New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Stanhope Press, 1909.

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