Captain Samuel Falkinburg

  General Notes:

This unusually large family of children have been unfortunate as to the manner of their deaths. The father and all of the sons were seamen, the majority of them being captains. The eldest son, Captain John Falkinburg, many years ago, was shipwrecked and drowned at Cape Henlopen; Samuel Falkinburg, his brother, was lost in the schooner Greenberry Holsk; Lemuel was drowned in the harbor of New York; George died of cholera on board of a vessel, Capt. Charles was drowned in the harbor of San Francis California; Fountain, the 2d, was drowned in Chesapeake Bay. Two of three of the grandsons and some of the great grandsons have met death in a like manner. ⁶⁷²

Samuel married Mary Cranmer, daughter of Josiah Cranmer and Unknown, on 1 Jan 1807.⁶⁷² (Mary Cranmer was born cal 1790.)

Samuel also married Hannah Truax, daughter of Jacob Truax and Unknown.⁶⁷²