Samuel Pitts (1745-1805)
West Indies Merchant, of Boston & Chelmsford, Massachusetts
He was a merchant at Boston in business with his father and brothers. They owned, fitted out and sent out ships to trade between Boston and the Bermudas. He was a Son of Liberty and one of the Boston Tea Party (as was his brother, Lendall) but this had to be kept a secret as his father and uncle were both member's of the King's Council. After the Revolution, he moved to Chelmsford where he declined public office and, "lived in luxury, devoted to domestic comfort and a noble hospitality". He married Joanna, daughter of William Davis, of Boston, and after she died he married her sister, Mary, the widow of Louis Carver. After he died, his widow married Judge Bachelder, of Fryeburg, Maine. He had seven children by his first wife, six (listed) lived to adulthood.
