Samuel Fitch

{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Samuel Fitch |office=Member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk<ref name="ahd">[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel+Fitch&pg=PA78 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut]</ref> |term_start=May 1736 |term_end=October 1736 |predecessor=James Lockwood, Samuel Hanford |alongside=Samuel Hanford |successor=Samuel Hanford, John Betts, Jr. |term_start2=October 1741 |term_end2=October 1743 |predecessor2=John Betts, Jr., John Belding, Jr. |alongside2=John Betts, Jr., James Lockwood |successor2= |term_start3=May 1744 |term_end3=October 1748 |predecessor3= |alongside3=Thomas Benedict, Joseph Platt, James Lockwood, Elnathan Hanford |successor3=James Lockwood, Joseph Platt, Jr. |term_start4=May 1750 |term_end4=October 1751 |predecessor4=James Lockwood, Joseph Platt, Jr. |alongside4=Joseph Platt, Jr. |successor4=James Lockwood, David Lambert |term_start5=May 1752 |term_end5=May 1753 |predecessor5=James Lockwood, David Lambert |alongside5=Joseph Platt, Jr. |successor5=James Fitch, Noah Taylor |term_start6=October 1753 |term_end6=October 1754 |predecessor6=James Fitch, Noah Taylor |alongside6=Joseph Platt, Jr., Theophilus Fitch |successor6=Joseph Platt, Jr., James Fitch |term_start7=October 1760 |term_end7=October 1761 |predecessor7=Joseph Platt, Jr., Joseph Betts |alongside7=Joseph Platt, Jr. |successor7=Peter Lockwood, Thomas Fitch, V |birth_date=July 1701<ref name="reg">[https://books.google.com/books?id=mggvAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel+Fitch+norwalk+deputy&pg=PA239 Register of the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America]</ref><ref name="hero">[https://books.google.com/books?id=lxARAQAAMAAJ&dq=nehemiah+rogers+fitch&pg=PA164 The Heroes of the American Revolution and Their Descendants]</ref> |birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony<ref name="hero"/><ref name="FS"/> |death_date=1787<ref name="FS"/> |death_place=Norwalk, Connecticut<ref name="FS"/> |resting_place= |spouse=Susannah Belden Whiting<ref name="FS">"Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MW3P-YVS : accessed 2014-05-30), entry for Samuel FITCH.</ref><ref name="nem">[https://books.google.com/books?id=mOgK8dM9qqUC&dq=Samuel+Fitch+norwalk+thomas+elizabeth+lane&pg=PA269 New England Marriages Prior to 1700]</ref> (daughter of Daniel Belden, widow of William Whiting) |children=Susannah Fitch Church, Elizabeth Fitch Rogers (m. Nehemiah Rogers),<ref name="hero"/> Samuel Jr., Daniel Fitch, Anne Fitch St. John (m. Stephen St. John), Jonathan Fitch<ref name="FS"/> |occupation= |battles= |rank= }}

'''Samuel Fitch''' (July 1701 – 1787) was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1736, October 1741, May and October 1742, May 1743, May and October 1744, May and October 1745, May and October 1746, May and October 1747, May 1748, May and October 1750, May 1751, May and October 1752, October 1753, May 1754, October 1760, May 1761.

He was the son of Thomas Fitch III (1675–1731), and brother of Governor Thomas Fitch.<ref name="hero"/><ref name="nor250">[https://books.google.com/books?id=J-NDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel+Fitch+norwalk+deputy&pg=PA291 Norwalk After Two Hundred & Fifty Years]</ref>

He was a New England King's Commissioner, and a large land proprietor. He inherited the tract of land which adjoins the harbor to the east of Gregory Point.<ref name="hero"/>

On May 27, 1743, he was named auditor of the colonial treasury.<ref name="nv1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&q=samuel+fitch&pg=PA163 Norwalk vol.1]</ref>

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