Mary SAMPSON

Mary married Samuel HOWLAND about 1673. Samuel (son of Henry HOWLAND and Mary) was born in poss. 1640 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died in 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary HOWLAND was born in 1673; died on 8 May 1744 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Rounsevell Cemetery, Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
2. Joshua HOWLAND was born in Freetown.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Brother to Henry Samson

Notes:

Name:
Samuel Sampson, deceased grandson of Lieut. Samuel Nash, was a son of Abraham Sampson of Duxbury, from which it appears that Samuel Sampson's mother was one of the daughters of Lieut. Nash. Abraham Sampson had sons George, Abraham and Isaac who are not mentioned as Lieut. Nash's grandsons. From these facts it is evident that Abraham Sampson had two wives, one of whom was the daughter of Lieut. Nash and the mother of Samuel Sampson, oldest son of Abraham Sampson. The writer has no information concerning Abraham Sampson's second wife.

Abraham Sampson, supposed to have been a brother of Henry; came from England some time after Henry, it is not known in what year, but probably in 1629 or 1630; and settled at Duxbury. He was on the list of persons in Duxbury "able to bear arms," in 1643. that list included all able-bodied males between the ages of sixteen and sixty. he was one of the fifty-four original grantees of Bridgewater, 645, all of whom then resided in Duxbury. He was surveyor of highways, 1648; constable, 1653; and was admitted freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1654. He was living in 1686; after which there is no record of him.

His wife, whose baptismal name does not appear, was a daughter of Samuel Nash, the Lieutenant of the Duxbury company. Lieut. Nash was frequently engaged in the military expeditions of the Colony, and was an officer in nearly all of them. He was respected by the people; was frequently honored with civil trusts; and was sheriff or chief marshal of the colony, from 1652, through a period of more than twenty years.

Winsor says that Abraham Sampson had a second wife, but does not give her name.

There is no will of Abraham Sampson, or settlement of his estate, on record. As the records of Duxbury, prior to 1666, were destroyed by fire, we are unable yo make out a full list of his children. We are able, however, to give the names of four sons, who came to maturity, and had families. If there were daughters, and if there were other sons, their memory has perished.

Abraham married ? NASH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Lieut. Samuel Nash

Notes:

Name:
Samuel Sampson, deceased grandson of Lieut. Samuel Nash, was a son of Abraham Sampson of Duxbury, from which it appears that Samuel Sampson's mother was one of the daughters of Lieut. Nash. Abraham Sampson had sons George, Abraham and Isaac who are not mentioned as Lieut. Nash's grandsons. From these facts it is evident that Abraham Sampson had two wives, one of whom was the daughter of Lieut. Nash and the mother of Samuel Sampson, oldest son of Abraham Sampson. The writer has no information concerning Abraham Sampson's second wife.