SAMUEL KELLOGG {20} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f>, son of Martin {7} <1.2b.3a.4f>, b. in Braintree, England, after 1630 but before 1640 (prob. 1632); m. (1) 24 Nov. 1664, Mrs. Sarah (Day) Gunn, dau. of Robert Day and Editha Stebbins, of Hartford, and widow of Nathaniel Gunn, of Hartford.

She was slain by the Indians, 19 Sept. 1677; he m. (2) 22 Mar. 1679, Sarah Root, b. 1660, dau. of Thomas Root, of Westfield.

He d. 17 Jan. 1711; she d. 15 Jan. 1718-19.

It is not known when he came to New England, nor whether he came with his brothers, Joseph and Daniel. There is a suggestion that he lived with Joseph for some time until he reached age. The first record found of him in New England is that of his first marriage.

He was a farmer; res. in Hadley, where he became the owner of a four-acre home lot in 1664. He, with the twenty-three other adult inhabitants on the west side of the river, petitioned the General Court in 1667 that they might call a minister to dispense the word of God to them. In this petition they said that for the most part they had lived about six years on the west side of the river, so that Samuel may have been in Hadley several years before his marriage. In answer to this petition, the present town of Hatfield was established in 1670. At that time Hatfield had about thirty families. The school was established about 1678, and the schoolhouse was built in 1681. Girls attended the school, or might attend, if they paid the same as boys. The school did not become free until 1722.

The first minister was Mr. Hope Atherton, who d. 8 June 1677. The meeting-house was in the street. It had galleries, a turret and a bell.

The first planters of New England were entirely unaccustomed to clearing woodlands, and they selected places where they could immediately begin to cultivate the earth. They found the best lands generally divested of timber. The intervals, or rich alluvial lands upon the Connecticut and its tributary streams, were more free from trees than the adjoining uplands. The first settlers of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield found plenty of land ready to plow, and began to raise Indian corn and other grain as soon as they had fixed themselves in these places. Nor did their home lots upon higher ground require much clearing. The upland woods on either side of the river, above and below these towns, were passable for men on horseback, and, with but little preparation, for carts. In King Philip's war, and in later years, companies of horsemen and larger bodies of foot soldiers seem to have penetrated the woods in every direction without difficulty.

Children (born in Hatfield, by first wife):

SAMUEL {51} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6a>, b. 11 Apr. 1669 ; m. Hannah Dickinson.

NATHANIEL {52} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6b>, b. 4 June 1671; m. (1) Margaret ---; (2) Mrs. Priscilla Williams.

EBENEZER {53} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6c>, b. 2 June 1674; prob. d. young.

JOSEPH {54} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6d>, b. 19 Sept. 1676; slain by the Indians, 19 Sept. 1677.

Children (by second wife):

JOHN {55} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6e>, b. 25 Apr. 1680; res. in Hatfield; d. unm. 1755. His will, dated 13 July 1755, proved 12 Aug., same year, bequeaths his property to the widow and children of his nephew, Ezra Kellogg {230} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6b.7h>.

THOMAS {56} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6f>, b. 1 Oct. 1681; d. unm. in Hatfield before 12 May 1758, when his property was distributed to the heirs of his brothers, Samuel, John and Nathaniel. He was Non Compos, and lived with different members of his father's family during his lifetime and was well-cared for by them.

SARAH {57} <1.2b.3a.4f.5f.6g>, b. 14 Apr. 1684; m. Abraham Morton.