SAMUEL, married, Sept. 29, 1676, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Ann Woodcock. Rev. Samuel Dexter, in his diary, calls him "an ancient, worthy and serviceable gentleman, Capt. Samuel Guild." He lived on the estate in East street, left him by his father, to which property he added by purchase, and by grants fiom the town.
Samuel Guild, son of John Guild (I), was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, November 7, 1647. Married, November 29, 1676, Mary Woodcock, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Herring) Woodcock, of Dedham. She was born March 9, 1631-32. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1675, a private in Captain Moseley's company. He was admitted a freeman at Salem, May, 1678. In 1703 he was one of a committee to invest and manage the school funds, selectman of Dedham from 1693 to 1713, and a deputy to the general court in 1719. He died in Dedham, January i, 1730. [Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of ... By William Richard Cutter]
The name of John Guild, of Dedham, is on the roll of Major Appleton's Company in the Narragansett campaign. Captain Samuel Guild was the son of John and Mary (Crooke) Guild, and was born in Dedham, Nov. 7,1647. Thus at the outbreak of King Philip's war he was in the prime of early manhood. We find him credited with military service under Captain Moseley, Dec. 10, 1675, sC^-ib- Again he is credited with military service at the garrison at Woodcock's, Sept. 14, 1675, ^0-14-4. A list of Capt. Samuel Moseley's company taken at Dedham the ninth day of December, 1675, contains the name of Samuel Guild, military service, £4-1. It is quite evident that he must have met Woodcock's daughter Mary during his service under Moseley, and the acquaintance so formed resulted in their marriage at Dedham at the close of King Philip's war. The records show that Samuel Guild and Mary Woodcock were married September 29, 1676. Their first child was born at Dedham, 1677, and the last in 1697; in all, seven boys and three girls. He served as selectman twenty years.
On the death of his father-in-law, John Woodcock, at Attleboro', Oct. 20, 1700, his son John (Jr.) and his son-in-law, Capt. Samuel Guild, were appointed administrators, and on November 2 of the same year the account was rendered by Capt. Samuel Guild alone. Several very interesting documents are recorded at Taunton concerning the settlement of the estate. One is dated March 4, 1703, in which Samuel Guild with others sell land on " Ten Mile river " for £i 20 and avouch same to be their lawful inheritance " from our father Woodcock." Also March 6, 1703, the original record on the division [Year Book By Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]
