Samuel Lynde, merchant, who was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Willoughby)
Lynde, was born October 29, 1689, and graduated at Yale college in 1707. He
married (i), Rebecca, daughter of major John Clarke of Saybrook; she died Janu-
ary 20, I 7 i 6; and (ii), Lucy, daughter of major Edward and Sarah (Farmer) (Davis)
Palmes of New London and widow of Samuel Gray. His second wife, who was the
joint donor of this beaker, died December 27, 1737, and was buried in the Say-
brook burying-ground, her gravestone being inscribed, " Lucy the wife of the
Honorable Samuel Lynde died in the 5 r year of her age and is doubtless gone to
Heaven."' In her will, dated December I7, 17 36, she left legacies to her husband,
to her cousins, Guy and Edward Palmes, and to Andrew Palmes. Her house in
New London, by the Mill Cove, was left to her cousin, Bryan Palmes. Samuel
Lynde married (iii), Hannah, born in 1701, daughter of Jabez and Hannah
(Lathrop) Perkins and widow of captain Joshua Huntington of Norwich, Con-
necticut. She married captain Ebenezer Lathrop of the same place and died in
I 7 8 8. The donor died September 2 2, I 7 54, leaving an estate valued at over
/I 1 ,000. He held several public offices, including judge of the New London
county court, judge of the superior court of the colony, and representative of the
town of Saybrook in the general assembly from 1724 until 1730, when he was
elected one of the upper house or council, a position which he held until his death.
Inscription on the third beaker:
I + B I AI Gft toyffirstI Church l in SaybrooA
A modern inscription has been added: Joseph Blague born 1694 Died 1742.
Height, 4 in.; diameter of the mouth, 343in.
Maker's mark: BUTER, for James Butler of Boston (17 I 3-76).
The donor, Joseph Blague, was the son of Joseph and Martha (Kirtland) Blague,
and was born October 7, 1694. He became a prosperous merchant, his estate at
his death amounting to over f9,000. He married, April I8, 1717, Mary,
daughter of the Honourable John Hamlin of Middletown, Connecticut. He died
September.2 8, I 742, and his widow died in 17 62. His will, dated September 7,
1742, contains a bequest to his daughter, Martha, of a silver tankard which had
belonged to his mother, who married as her second husband, captain William
Southworth of Little Compton, Rhode Island. The will also contains a legacy of
ten pounds to this church " to be laid out in plate," with which the above beaker
was doubtless bought.
1 From notes contributed by Miss Sarah Sill.

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