daughters Lydia the wife of Robert Lay, Lucia the wife of Elijah Chadwick, and Partheny the wife of Joseph Chadwick. The inventory shows a valuation, aside from land, of L 530 11 shillings and 5 pence.
v. Samuel Tinker, born at Lyme in 1697, died 29 March, 1776, aged 79 years. He m at New London, 30 Nov. 1720 with Elizabeth *Harris ( possibly dau. of Samuel, born in 1695 ), she died 16 Sept. 1781 aged 86 years. Samuel Tinker and his wife Elizabeth renewed their Covenant in the First Church of New London, 25 July, 1725, and joined the Communion there 29 Jan. 1737. In 1743 and 1744, Samuel Tinker was made surveyor of highways. On March 1722-3 Amos Tinker "of New London, yeoman ", for love and affection, conveyed to his son Samuel Tinker of said county, "part of the farm where he lives in the General Neck at the harbor's mouth", esteemed a third part of the whole farm, "including "a tract of land where the said Amos Tinker's mansion house stands, with the barn; only the said Amos Tinker reserving to himself and his wife Sarah the west end of the house and barn, and about ten acres of land where they stand." (New Lond on Deeds, vol 8, p. 145)
In May, 1749, Samuel Tinker bought 108 acres of land at Pygan's Hill, now East Lyme, and probably removed thither about that time. In May, 1768, the General Assembly of the Colony acted "upon the memorial of Samuel Tinker and others, inhabitatnts in the towns of New London and Lyme ", for a new ecclesiastical society, dated 10 April, 1768; and upon recommendation of its committee, in Jan. 1769, granted the new society under the name of Chesterfield.
vi. Jonathan Tinker was certainly a child of this family, althe public records of his birth and death have not yet heen found. He married, at New London, 27 Jan. 1722-3, with Elizabeth Manwaring, daughter of Peter and Mary, who was b there 17 or 21 April 1702; she d before Nov. 1748, when her husband sold his life interest in her estate. In March, 1723, Amos Tinker, of New London conveyed to his son Jonathan part of " my farm in New London at the Harbours Moth, after my decease and my wife Sarah's decease;" it being "understood that if the said Jonathan Tinker shall die without