Tenth Generation

540. Abraham SAMPSON was born on 14 August 1614 in Campton, Bedfordshire, England. He died about 1686 at the age of 72 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. SAMSON, ABRAHAM-It had long been thought that Abraham Samson was a brother to 1620 Mayflower passenger Henry Samson, but in Robert Leigh Ward's first article shown under Henry Samson below, there is no mention of Abraham in Henlow parish records. However, in "Henry Sampson's Paternal Grandfather" (TAG 56:141), Ward shows Henry's father James had a brother Laurence, who married Mary Shabery, and among their children was an Abraham Samson born at Campton, Bedfordshire, 14 August 1614, who would thus be a good candidate for the Plymouth Colony Abraham Samson. Abraham first appears in Plymouth records as a resident of Duxbury who was presented on 4 December 1638 for striking John Washburn, Jr. at the meeting house on the Lord's day (PCR 1:107). In 1646/47 he was fined for being drunk, and in 1648 he was made a surveyor of the highways for Duxbury (PCR 2:111, 124). He became a freeman in 1654 (PCR 3:48). He was one of the former servants and ancient freemen given land at Saconnet Neck in 1662 (PCR 4:18). In 1662/63 he was fined ten shillings for being drunk (PCR 4:33). Mrs. Barclay, "The Early Sampsons," TAG 28:1, shows that there is no record of his death, nor of the births of his children. Since Henry Samson named his children in his will, there is a strong assumption that the other Samsons of the right age in Duxbury must be Abraham's sons, and these include Samuel, George, Abraham, and Isaac, all of whom left descendants. Clarence Almon Torrey, "A Nash-Sampson-Delano-Howland Problem," TAG 15:165, gives indirect evidence to show that Abraham Samson had by his first wife (who was a daughter of Samuel Nash, q.v.) daughters Elizabeth, who married Philip 2 Delano, and Mary, who married Samuel 2 Howland, and he may have had other daughters. Torrey showed that Abraham's son Samuel was also by his first wife, but the other sons were probably by an unidentified second wife.

Source: Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton

Accordingly, I've not listed the parents of Esther Nash and am looking for the second wife, who would have been the mother of George.

Supposedly, Abraham married Sarah Nash, daughter of Lt. Samuel Nash and Elizabeth Seymour, in 1645. She was born in 1624 and died in 1645, according to Family Data Collections.

A Hester/Esther Nash, b. abt. 1642, married, 2nd, John Soule. Her first marriage was to Samuel Sampson in 1678 in Duxbury.. She died 12 Sep 1735 (New England Marriages prior to 1700). Esther NASH and Abraham SAMPSON were married in 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA.

541. Esther NASH was born in 1625 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. She died in 1653 at the age of 28 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA.

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