Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay

1778 - 1856  (78 years)

• Name	Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay
  Birth	10 Jan 1778	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	18 May 1856	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	18 May 1856	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Burial	Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I20998	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Fay,   b. 21 Jan 1752, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 1 Jun 1811, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Lucy Prescott,   b. 24 Apr 1757, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 10 Oct 1792, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	6 Dec 1776	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F12489	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Harriet Howard,   b. 27 Mar 1782, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 27 Jul 1847, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	Aft 31 Jul 1803	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Rev. Charles Fay,   b. 21 Jul 1808, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 6 Nov 1888, New York, New York (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F12491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2019

  
  

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  Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay

  
  

• Notes

  Member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council, 1818-19. Overseer of Harvard College, 1824-52. Judge of probate, 1821-56. Ancestors of American Presidents (citation details below) has him dying in Concord, but his tombstone (viewable on his Find a Grave page, citation details below) says he died in Cambridge. So does a newspaper obituary shown on the same Find a Grave page; unfortunately, no information is given as to what newspaper the obituary came from. Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay (1778-1856) = Harriet Howard (1782-1847) Samuel Howard Fay (1804-1847) = Susan Montfort Shellman (1808-1887) Harriet Eleanor Fay (1829-1924) = James Smith Bush (1825-1889) Samuel Prescott Bush (1883-1894) = Flora Sheldon (1872-1920) Sen. Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) = Dorothy Wear Walker (1901-1992) George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) = Barbara Pierce (1925-2018) George Walker Bush (1946- )

  
  

• Sources

  [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933. [S2304] Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts. 2009 edition, 2012 reprint with 2015 corrigenda. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S2947] Harold Clark Durrell, "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90:274, 1936., year only. [S2953] Find a Grave page for Judge Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay.