Sampson Family Crest
Ray Dexter Sampson (1889-1952)
Sampson Family Crest |
Ray Dexter Sampson (1889-1952) |
Our Sampson-Standish-Alden-Cushman-Bradford and Allied Families Heritage Tree
After first learning of our family descent from Edouad Bompasse of the pilgrim ship Fortune (1621) and his wife Hannah in 1993, my brother Stephen and I spent quite some time in the deliniation of the descendants of Edouad Bompasse, relying greatly on the work of Lynn Albert Bumpus who had put together, in our opinion, the most complete Genealogy of the family before his death. See Link to Bumpus Brothers page below. After basic completion of the Bumpus lineage I turned to our mother's Sampson family genealogy. With the discovery of the book "Abraham Sampson in America" by Elizabeth Hutchinson, our link with the Samson/Sampson families of Plymouth County was made clearer to us. The marriage of our maternal great-grandparents, Edgar Rollins Sampson (1865-1947) and Lillian Maude Phinney (1871-1936), brought together in our line two families which have been tied through many generations of Mayflower descendants.
Our Sampson families go back to Myles Standish and John Alden through the marriages of THREE of Myles Standish's son Alexander Standish's children. You might imagine how hard I tried to have our Sampson family heritage go back to Henry of the Mayflower, only to always end up at this guy named Abraham Samson! Abraham is considered today to most likely have been the cousin of the Mayflower Henry. Abraham Samson's son, Abraham Samson II, married Alexander and Sarah (Alden) Standish's daughter Lorah Standish, while his younger brother Issac Samson married Lorah's younger sister Lydia Standish. From the union of Abraham II and Lorah Standish we follow the three generations of Miles SAMSON's mentioned above. This I call our most "direct" Samson line but, then, I guess its no more so than the other lines except that the name remains Sam(p)son down to our mother Edna Lorraine Sampson (1920-1996).
Abraham and Lorah (Standish) Samson's son, Miles Samson Sr (1692-1784) married Sarah Studley, possibly the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Brooks) Studley. Their son Miles (1731-1812) married Deborah Bonney, daughter of Ichabod Bonney and Elizabeth Howland. The Miles & Deborah Samson family are found at rest in the Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury Massachusetts (See pics below). Their son, the youngest of our three Miles' (1766-1820), married Naomi Stetson, daughter of John and Devorah (Tower) Stetson. The last of the Standish--Alden lines I then uncovered was that of Alexander and Sarah Alden's son Ebenezer of Plympton, whom we have only lately found also to lead to our Sampson line through our great grandfather Edgar Rollins Sampson's mother Rebecca (Churchill) Sampson, by way of her grandmother Asenath Cushman; this Ebenezer leads also to Edgar's wife Lillian Phinney, through her mother Sarah Antoinette Holmes (1847-1919). Rebecca Churchill being of Ebenezer and wife Hannah (Sturtevant) Standish's son Zachariah (1698-1779), and Sarah Holmes of their son Moses (1701-1769). (See Sampson--Phinney Family Tree and Our Standish--Alden--Bradford Heritage Trees) The gravesites of the Plympton Families which descend from Ebenezer Standish, through these sons Zachariah and Moses, along with the George and Isaac Samson Families of Plympton, can be viewed at my "Plympton's Old Burial Grounds" pages (Link Below) and eventually I hope to document the entire graveyard which contains as many as 575 graves.
A Bruce Phinney had supplied us with much good information on our connection with the line of John Finney Jr. and Mary Rogers--daughter and granddaughter of Joseph and Thomas Rogers of "The Mayflower," before he passed away a few years after. Lillian Maude Phinney was the daughter of Ezra Phinney (1845-1918) and Sarah Antoinette Holmes (1847-1919), mentioned previously. Great-Grandmother Phinney being, thereby, the grandaughter of Otis Phinney (1800-1887) and Betsey Bradford (1803-1882), thus our Braford lineage. Lately we've discovered that the complex lineage of Sarah Antoinette Holmes, a descendant of John Holmes--Messenger of the Plymouth Court--leads also to Adam Wright and Sarah Soule, descendants of Francis Cooke and George Soule; Sarah is descended from Josiah Holmes, of Kingston, who married Ruth Cooke, also descendant of Francis Cooke, and these are all also large Plympton families. Ezra Phinney's parents were Otis Phinney, of the sixth generation from John Finney Jr. and Mary Rogers; while Otis Phinney's wife Betsey Bradford was the great granddaughter of Ichabod Bradford (1713-1765) and Mary Sampson (1724-1813), and thereby 5th generation from both Gov. William Bradford and again Abraham Samson, through the Plympton Sampson's, and 6th Generation from Myles Standish and John Alden--through Mary Sampson's grandmother Lydia Standish. At this point I have established clear evidence of relationship with fully nineteen families of the Mayflower, ten from the Fortune (1621) and many more from the "Anne" and "Little James" (1623). The fact that the Mayflower Society now accepts descent from three "Women of the Mayflower", Joan (Hurst) Rogers Tilley, Elizabeth Fisher Hopkins, and Mary Norris Allerton, our fully proved Mayflower ancestry now consists of 22 Mayflower Society approved lineages.
Our mother Edna Lorraine (Sampson) Bumpus was born in Brockton, Massachusetts on January 9, 1920, the daughter of Ray Dexter Sampson (1889-1952) and Melissa Irene Davidson (1891-1975). Our grandmother Irene, who was originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, used to tell our sister Linda when she was a little girl how we were related to Gov. Bradford, Myles Standish and John and Priscilla Alden. We now know how correct these stories actually were. Unfortunately, our grandmother was telling us, we believe, what she knew of her husband's Sampson family. I doubt that she knew she was, in her own right, descendant from Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins through his daughter Constance (also a Mayflower passenger). In our Bumpus line, our father's grandmother, Hannah Pierce Harlow's grandmother, Mary Fuller (c.1750-1802)--wife of Jabez Nye (c.1749-1802) of Wareham--would seem to be most likely a descendant of the Mayflower Fullers. If so, this line leads possibly to as many as four new Mayflower passengers for or family lineage. Anyone with info or questions on these lines please e-me, particularly info on the Mary Fuller who married Jabez Nye in Wareham, Ma (c. 1768) and Sarah Studley, wife of Miles Samson Sr.
Sampson Family Crest (Larger Version)
The Plympton Sampsons--Old Burying Grounds, Plympton Mass
Decsendants of Myles Standish & John Alden Page
Pilgrim Henry Samson Kindred website (Paul S. Bumpus--Historian
Our Davison Family of Nova Scotia
Our Bumpus Family History Page
Our Sampson Family Pictures--Hey, They're All We've Got
Samson Family Plot, Mayflower Cemetary, Duxbury Massachusetts
Deborah Bonney Samson Headstone
Our Great Great Grandfather--Henry R. Sampson
Henry's Wife--Rebecca P. Churchill (1834-1890)
Our Great Grandparents-Edgar Sampson and Lillian Maude Phinney
Isaac Samson and sons Jonathan and Josiah--Old Burying Grounds, Plympton Mass
Isaac Samson's Headstone Close-up
George Samson Family--Old Burying Grounds, Plympton Mass
Benjamin Samson--Margaret Parker
Headstone of Elizabeth Sprague Samson
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"Descendants of Daniel Davison"
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