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Samuel Ladd was born 21 FEB 1744 in Exeter, Rockingham Co, Nh. He died 9 APR 1801 in Laconia, NH. He was the son of Edward Ladd (1707-1787) and Catharine Thing (1711-1773). His siblings were Abigail Ladd (1734-1747), Edward Ladd (1736-1818), Thing Ladd (1738-?), Nathaniel Ladd (1740-?), John Ladd (1746-?), Abigail Ladd (1749-?).
Samuel Ladd's wife was Abigail Flanders (1747-1803). They were married 10 NOV 1768 in Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire.
He was buried 1801 in Union Cemetery, Laconia, NH.
From the "Illustrated Laconian"
In the town of Meridith Bridge (now Laconia, N.H.) the mill privilege waspurchased in 1780 by Colonel Samuel Ladd who rebuilt on the Gilfordside of the river. Colonel Ladd lost his milldam three years successively,and in 1788 his mill was burned, but it was immediately rebuilt. One ofthe first houses on the Gilmanton side of the river was the mill houseerected by Col. Samuel Ladd in 1780, near the present location of theHuse Machine Shops. Colonel Ladd purchased the land of Samuel Jewett,who settled half a mile above, the previous year. It is stated that Col.Ladd paid but 7 Spanish dollars for this lot of two and a half acres of landon the east side of the river, and previously owned the territory nowknown as Ladd's Hill, just across the city line in Belmont. The land on thenorth side of the river was first owned by Schoolmaster James of Exeter.Stephen Gale next purchased this territory and sold it to Colonel Ladd.This land commenced near the present Church Street Bridge and theboundary ran in a straight line to Lake Winnesquam, near the mouth ofthe Winnipesaukee River, thus including all of the most valuable propertytoday in the city of Laconia.