SAMUEL ARCHIBALD (called Lame Sam) was born at East Derry, N.H. ca. 1761 and died at St. Mary’s River, Guysborough County, 20 June 1833. . He married first, 13 January 1790, MARGARET ARCHIBALD, b. at Truro 13 August 1767; d. 15 January 1809, daughter of Thomas 2 and Janet (Orr) Archibald. Lame Sam was known as Samuel Archibald 2nd and was listed among the fifty grantees in the Stewiacke grant of 1783. His lot of 500 acres lay in the middle of what became Upper Stewiacke village. The first evidence that Lame Sam was actually living at Upper Stewiacke, however, was in December 1789 when he was chosen overseer of the poor and fence viewer. At the next meeting of the proprietors of Stewiacke, held in December 1790, Lame Sam was appointed hog reeve and in 1791 he was still living in Upper Stewiacke since his name appears on the poll tax list. In 1792, Lame Sam sold his grant to William Cox and moved back to Truro where he lived at Salmon River. After the death of his first wife, Margaret, Lame Sam married second, 18 April 1810, NANCY CLAYTON and shortly thereafter removed to the St. Mary’s River, Guysborough County, and lived near The Forks which in the 1830s became known as Glenelg in honour of Lord Glenelg, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Children of Samuel and Margaret (Archibald) Archibald:
RACHEL ARCHIBALD, b. 1 September 1793; d. October 1865; m. 1824 EPHRAIM
TAYLOR, b. 5 October 1796, d. at Glenelg, Guysborough County, 20 August 1859, son
of John and Agnes (Archibald) Taylor. According to Miller they had four sons
and one daughter, whose names have not been identified.
ii. SAMUEL ARCHIBALD, b. 1795; d. June 1821. unm.
iii. MARGARET ARCHIBALD, b. at Truro, N.S., 15 June 1797; d. at Aspen, Guysborough
County, 24 March 1865; m. December 1828 PETER GRANT. Peter and Margaret
(Archibald) Grant had five children, three of whom were 1. Samuel A. Grant, b. 22
September 1830, m. (1) 9 July 1850 Mary McLean, m. (2) 11 July 1870 Hannah Dickson; 2.
Matthew Henry Grant, b. 14 July 1833, m. 30 December 1857 Sarah Thomson; 3. Hiram
Alexander Grant, b. 6 May 1838, m. 30 November 1864 Margaret Stewart.
iv. MARTHA ARCHIBALD, b. 1798; d. 8 May 1868. unm.
v. THOMAS ARCHIBALD, b. May 1806.
vi. DAVID ARCHIBALD, b. 16 December 1808.
Children of Samuel and Nancy (Clayton) Archibald:
vii. MATTHEW ARCHIBALD, b. 18 March 1811.
viii. HENRY CLAYTON ARCHIBALD, b. 1 May 1813.
ix. CHARLES COX ARCHIBALD, b. 12 June 1816.
x. ELEANOR ARCHIBALD, b. at Melrose, Guysborough County, 6 May 1819; d. at
Riversdale, Colchester County, 24 July 1914; m. 24 June 1841 ROBERT JAMES
HINGLEY, b. at Kemptown, Colchester County, 22 February 1817, d. at Riversdale,
Colchester County, 26 November 1896, son of Daniel and Sarah (Johnson) Hingley. Robert
and Eleanor (Archibald) Hingley lived at Riversdale and had ten children: 1. Samuel
James Hingley, b. 19 April 1842, m. 31 May 1869 Sarah Hurst; 2. Daniel Charles Hingley,
b. 17 March 1844, m. Catherine O’Sullivan; 3. Anabell Hingley (called Annie), b. 15
February 1846, m. 20 April 1866 William Collins; 4. Sarah Johnson Hingley, b. 22 August
1848, d.y.; 5. Alexander J. Hingley, b. 10 July 1850, d.y.; 6. Margaret Jane Hingley, b. 11
January 1853, m. 22 July 1876 Alexander Sartoris; 7. Janet Hingley (called Jennie), b. 6
March 1855, m. 12 July 1875 Angus Rose; 8. Nancy McDonald Hingley, b. 19 May 1857,
m. 18 December 1883 Elisha Godfrey 4 Archibald; 9. Susan Hingley, b. 10 June
1861, m. 1 June 1875 John Walters; 10. Matthew H. Hingley, b. 4 April 1862, d.y.
xi. EPHRAIM T. ARCHIBALD, b. 4 June 1821.
xii. ALEXANDER LEWIS ARCHIBALD (twin), b. 24 August 1826.
xiii. JAMES ARCHIBALD (twin), b. 24 August 1826.
xiv. SAMUEL PHILIP ARCHIBALD, b. 15 August 1831.
From NO REWARD WITHOUT EFFORT
THE ARCHIBALD FAMILY OF NOVA SCOTIA
ALLAN E. MARBLE
Past President and Fellow of the
Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada