Mingo, Samuel , 1795 - 1886

Samuel Mingo was the son of Isaiah Mingo and Anna Sunks of Tiverton, Rhode Island.  He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and his seamen's protection papers three years later indicate that he was 5'5 1/2".  Samuel was living in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1821 when he married Rachel Peters of Christiantown.  The couple lived in Vineyard Haven where Samuel worked as a furniture maker with his brother William.  However, by 1825, they had removed to Tisbury.  The couple had two children, Elizabeth and  Joseph Quonwell Mingo. After Rachel's death in 1831, he married Hannah Aucouch, the widow of Paul Cuffe, and moved to Gay Head.  When Hannah died in 1832, Samuel went back to Christiantown and married Jane Thomas, the widow of Isaac Freeman, of Chappaquiddick.  He and Jane had one daughter, Sarah A. Mingo.  On Jane's death, he wed Eliza Jackson, and with her death, he married Marietta Etch.  Samuel died at Woods Hole from paralysis in 1886 at 102 years old.  Pierce and Segel, Wampanoag Families of Martha's Vineyard, 560, 565-567.