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7 children born to this marriage
i. Samuel WILBUR was born 12 Feb 1618/1619 in Portsmouth, Newport,
Rhode Island, and died 1697 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island.
He married Hannah PORTER 1648 in of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts,
daughter of John PORTER and Margaret ODDING. She was born 1636 in
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, and died 6 Apr 1722 in of Boston,
Suffolk, Massachusetts. He married Mary POTTER 1680 in Little
Compton, Newport, Rhode Island.
ii. Arthur WILBOUR was born 28 Dec 1623 in Sible, Edingham,
Essex, England.
iii. William WILBOUR was born 27 Aug 1626 in Sible, Edingham,
Essex, England, and died 28 Jan 1627.
iv. Joseph WILBOUR was born 28 Feb 1628/1629 in Boston, ,
Massachusetts, and died 27 Aug 1691 in Taunton, , Massachusetts.
v. William WILBOUR was born 21 May 1630 in Littlecompton, , Rhode
Island, and died 15 Apr 1710 in Portsmouth, , Rhode Island.
vi. Sarah WILBOUR was born ABT 1633.
vii. Shadrach WILBOUR was born 1631, and died 13 Jan 1597/1598 in
Taunton, , Massachusetts.

Wildbour/Wilbore/Wilbor/Wilbur - History of Samuel Wildbore
Wilbur Arms - Sable, on a fesse between two boars passant
argent, a javelin point of the field. Crest - The upper part of a
spear proper thrust through a boarus head erased argent, Cropping
blood proper.

The name in its original form had its source in a nickname and
signifies literally Sthe wild boar.T We find the entry SWillelmus
WyldeboreT in the Poll Tax for the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1379.
The surname as used by Samual continued through one or two
generations of his descendants, and in the records of the towns where
they settled we find the entries Wilbore, Wildboare, Wildbore. Soon
afterward the contracted forms, Wilbur, Wilbar, Wilber and Wilbor
appeared, and it is to the first orthography that the family in New
England at the present time adheres most consistently. The majority
of the descendants of Samuel Wildbore, of Boston, Portsmouth, and
Taunton, where the scene of his life was chiefly laid, have used the
spelling Wilbur since the third generation, although many of the same
family line spell it both Wilbour and Wilbur as well.

One of the many notable characters of early Massachusetts history,
who were identified with the teachings of Mr. Wheelwright and Anne
Hutchinson, and in consequence were exiled from the colony by the
Puritan authorities, was Samuel Wildbore, the progenitor of a large
proportion of the Wilbur families of New England to-day.

From the time Samuel Wilbore fled from Taunton, Mass., to Providence,
driven by the persecutions of his religious opponents, the family has
been prominent in the public and business life of the Colony and
State of Rhode Island. Without an exception the heads of each of the
nine generations of the branch herein recorded have been landowners
and substantial farmers, the family possessions lying mainly in the
town of Little Compton.

Samuel Wildbore, immigrant ancestor and founder, was born in England,
and Robert Charles Anderson says he was born about 1595 based on the
date of his marriage. He was executor of his mother's will, namely
Elizabeth Wilbore, which was made 25 Feb 1624. In England he signed
as a witness to the will of Samuel Allen in Sible Hedingham in 1626.
In 1633 Samuel arrived in Boston with his wife and several children.
His first wife Ann was a daughter of Thomas Bradford, of Dorchester,
Yorkshire, England.

On 4 Mar 1633 he was made a freeman in Boston, and with his wife was
admitted to the church in December of the same year. In 1634 he was
assessor of taxes. Samuel Wildbore was one of the founders of the
iron industry at Taunton, Mass., building with his associates a
furnace at what is now Raynham, the first built in New England. He
became wealthy for his day, but his standing in the community could
not preserve him from religious persecutions.

By 1637 he seems to have fallen away from the recognized church and
embraced the "dangerous doctrines" of Cotton and Wheelwright. On
November 20 of that year he was one of several disarmed "in
consequence of having been seduced and led into dangerous error by
the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson".
With seventeen others, He was given license to depart from the colony
and banished from Massachusetts. Although he owned a house in Boston,
and one in Taunton, he abandoned both, and on the advice of Roger
Williams he, with seventeen fellow exiles, purchased from the Indians
the Island of Aquidneck. He moved there with his family in 7 Mar
1638, on which date he was one of eighteen who entered into the
following compact: "We, whose names are underwritten, do here
solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a
Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives
and estate, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord
of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his
given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby."

In 1638 Samuel Wildbore was chosen clerk of the train band. In the
following year he was made constable and given an allotment of a neck
of land lying in the great cove, containing about two acres. He was
admitted as a freeman of the joint government of Newport and
Portsmouth by 12 March 1639/40. In 1640 he and Ralph Earle, who seems
to have been associated in some way with him, were ordered to furnish
the town of Newport with new sawed boards at eight shillings per
hundred feet, and half-inch boards at seven shillings, to be
delivered at the "pit," by the water-side.

On March 16, 1641, he was made a freeman in Portsmouth, and in 1644
he was sergeant of militia. Although Samuel followed Ann Hutchinson
to Portsmouth he soon regretted his decision. In a document found at
the Massachusetts Historical Society he humbly makes the request that
he be permitted to return, and eventually does, for in 1645 returned
to Boston with his wife. On November 29, 1645, Samuel and his wife
were received into the church in Boston. Prior to this date, he
married Elizabeth Lechford, widow of Thomas Lechford. In a
deposition made May 2, 1648, he made oath that when he married the
widow of Thomas Lechford he received no part of her former husband's
estate. In 1655 he was again at Portsmouth and made a Freeman.
The founder died September 29, 1656, twenty-two years after having
been made a freeman at Boston. His will was proved 6 Nov 1656
Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. At the time of making his will he
lived in Taunton and at the same time had a house in Boston. His will
was recorded both in Massachusetts and in Plymouth Colony. It bore
the date of April 30, 1656, and was admitted to probate November
following. His estate was inventoried at £282 19s. 6d. Two of their
sons, Samuel and William, settled in Portsmouth, R. I.; another,
Joseph, located at Taunton, Mass.; the fourth, Shadrach, in that part
of the same town now known as Raynham.

The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations:
Biographical,From pages 121 to 123 of the larger edition.

Samuel's will:
"A Coppy of A Will appointed to bee Recorded The thirtieth Day of
Aprill in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hundred fifty six
I Samuell Wilbore of Taunton in Plymouth Pattent being of pfect
understanding blessed bee God Doe make this my last Will and
Testament as followeth;

Impr: I give and bequeath unto my loveing Wife Elizabeth all the
moveable goods that is or shalbee in my house in Boston wher att
prsent I Doe habitt att the time of my Decease and alsoe all my sheep
and lambes att Dorchester there kept to halves alsoe a mare and coult
att John Mores att Brantry

Item I give and bequeath unto Samuell Wilbore my Eldest son all my
lands att Road Iland and all my Debts Due to mee there first from
Richard Smith the eldest and alsoe a Debt from henery Bull which is
foure pounds and an ewe of 2 yeares old alsoe; one Cow in the hands
of James Badcocke and alsoe one Cow that is att Bridgwater together
with the rent for the said Cattle according to agreement and alsoe
six hundred of Iron lying att Taunton in my Dwelling house there Item
I give and bequeath unto my son Josepth Wilbore my house and land
wherin my said son Josepth Doth now Inhabite and Dwell with all the
appurtenances therunto belonging and alsoe twelve acres of ground
graunted by the Towne of Taunton being by the Iron mills and alsoe my
share in the said Iron Workes;

And I give and bequeath unto my youngest son Shadrach Wilbore my
house and land therunto belonging att Taunton wherin I Dwell with all
the moveable goods within and without Dores and Cattle excepting
halfe the orchyard and halfe the said Dwelling house and two of the
best Cowes and hay to bee taken of the meddow ground Convenient for
theire wintering which I give and bequeath unto my said wife
Elizabeth provided shee Continew and Dwell there; but incase my said
wife should mary an other man and Inhabite elsewhere that my said son
shall have the said Anuity allowing my said wife or her assignes the
sume of ten pounds to bee paied in such goods as the Countrey Doth
affoard; Item I give unto my said son Shadrach the Debts of James
Leanard [crossed out Leanard] Jams Lynard Ralph Rusill and Jeremy
Newland; and I the said Samuell Wilbore Doe Nominate and appoint my
said Wife Elizabeth and my said son Shadrach Exequitors of this my
last Will and Testament unto whome I give and bequeath all other my
Debts owing unto my selfe not before sgenified paying all such Debts
as are owing by mee and Discharging my funeralls and pforming the
trust Committed them which I hope they will Doe and I give my white
house unto my son Shadrach and what other Cattle or goods I have not
Desposed of I will that my said exequitors have these betwixt them
equally to bee Devided Item I give to Robert Blott of Boston twenty
shillings Item I give to goodman flacke twenty shillings Item I five
to my son Shadrach the time of the service of my man John Mockelett a
Scotsman; Item I give unto my son Josepth a peece of blew Trucking
cloth of eight or ten yards which said cloth is included in the
[crossed out in the] amonge the goods in the house at Boston wheratt
prsent I Doe Inhabite and above bequeathed to my said wife and I will
that my said exequitors pay to my son Josepth within two years after
my Decease the som [crossed out som] sume of ten pounds in Iron pig
and five pounds therof att six monthes end and the other five pounds
att the two yeares and unto which as my last will and Testament I
have heerunto sett my hand and seale the Day and yeare
abovesaidAttested p Robert howard Samuel Wilbore and Willam Colbron a
Seale

This is A true coppy compared with the originall Will with those
Interlininges therunto belonging the more said which as attests Edw:
Rawson Recorder

Att A meeting of the Govr. Deputie Govr. and Recorded the sixt of
Novem: 1656 Mr Willam Cobron and mr Robert howard Deposed saith that
they were prsent when Samuell Wilbore within mencioned Declared the
abovewritten to bee his last will as and Testament & that when he
Declared to them hee was of pfect memory and sound understanding to
theire best knowlidg and Deserning; this is a true Coppy of the
probate

Attestes Edw: Rawson Recorder;"