Samuel Sedgwick
- Born: 11 Apr 1725, West Hartford, Connecticut
- Marriage (1): Hannah Katherine Backer about 1776
- Marriage (2): Deborah Higgins about 1748 in Kinderhook, New York 552
- Died: 1794 at age 69 553
 Noted events in his life were:
• Family Origin. 554 "Samuel, the 4th son, may have been called Samuel III, and the 6th son of this Samuel III was James Sedgwick who founded the historic Sedgwick Institute of Great Barrington. The only son and first child of James Sedgwick was George Stanley Sedgwick, who was father of the novelist, Ann Douglas Sedgwick." From a letter from Hubert M. Sedgwick, New Haven, CT to Edna Sedgwick on Sept. 3, 1 938. Death: "Family Record. The Descendants of Gordon Sedgwick," by Hubert M. Sedgwick
Samuel married Hannah Katherine Backer about 1776. (Hannah Katherine Backer was born in 1763 in Hartford, Connecticut and died in 1829.)
Samuel next married Deborah Higgins about 1748 in Kinderhook, New York.552 (Deborah Higgins was born on 26 Oct 1725 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.)
Marriage Notes:
"Samuel Sedgwick followed the seas until he was charmed by a sprightly, pretty little girl, by the name of Deborah Higgins and settled down on a new farm. "When Deborah was a little girl and lived in Boston (where she first saw Samuel) she used to fetch chips from the shipyard for fire, and afterwards she worked out for a living
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