SAMUEL DALE AND THE DALE FAMILY. 
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conjoined town of Booking (with which, however, he was closely 
associated : see post) ; for the births and deaths of all his children 
Mere recorded in the Braintree Parish Registers. 
Samuel Dale was married twice and had children (apparently 
six) by his first wife, but all, with one exception, pre-deceased 
him. Both his wives also died before him. The first wife, 
whose surname does not appear, bore the Christian name of 
Judah. He must have married her about the time he settled 
in Braintree (say, about 1680). The late Rev. J. \V. KenWorthy 
and Mr. H. J. Cunnington, both of Braintree, have favoured me 
with extracts relating to the Dale family from the Parish Regis¬ 
ters, from which I extract the following as to the births and 
deaths of Dale’s children. By his first wife, he had 5Ta 
(1) A child (sex not recorded) who was still-born and was buried 
15th July i68i. 57b 
(2) A son, named Samuel (after his father), born 12th November 1683. 
He died, aged 44, and was buried 2nd August 1727. 58 
(3) A son, named North (after his grandfather), born 12th June 1685. 
He died, aged ten months, and was buried 8th April 1686. 
(4) A son, alsc named North, born -? He died, aged-, and 
was buried 20th September 1698. 
(5) A son, named Thomas, baptised, 17th June 16S6. 59 He died, 
aged four months, and was buried 19th October 1686. 
(6) A daughter, named Christian, baptised 6th November 16S7, who 
was still alive when her father made his will in August I738. 59a 
Dale’s first wile, Judah, having died, he married again, but 
the dates of both events aie unknown. The name of Dale’s 
second wife (by whom, apparently, he had no children) was 
Sarah Finch. Who she was and wh nee she came, I know not. 
By her will (made 1st July I726,and proved 13th March 1729-3G 60 ), 
she describes herself as “ wife of Mr. Samuel Dale, of Braintree, 
apothecary ” 61 ; asserts her good bodily health and soundness 
of mind ; sa3-s she makes her dispositions “ by virtue of a 
Teed of Settlement executed by my husband, aforesaid, before 
my marriage with him”; and gives to her “loving mother, 
57a A Priscilla Dale (an entry of whose burial on 6th June 1689 Mr. Cunnington has ex¬ 
tracted) may have been a daughter of either our Samuel Dale or of his son Samuel, mentioned 
above. 
57b Mr. Cunnington (who does not note this entry) finds another:—16S2, 3rd July.—“ A 
still-born child of Mr. Dale, Apoticary.” Probably this refers to the same child. 
58 Another Samuel Dale, buried 2nd February 1730-1, was perhaps a son of this Samuel Dale 
the Younger. 
59 See post. 
59a See post, p. 66. 
60 Proved before the Rev. P. Wagener, Surrogate to the Dean of Booking. The will (which 
appears to be in Dale's own handwriting) is at Somerset House. It bears an armorial seal charged 
with a cross-botony, but 1 can trace no such coat in connection with any family of Dale or Finch. 
61 This seems to show that Dale had not yet taken a physician’s degree. 
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