http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/HenrySamson.php

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allfam/notes/henrysamson2891.html

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Henry Samson married Ann Plummer at Plymouth on 6 February 1635. The couple moved to nearby Duxbury where he became a person of standing in the community. Henry died 24 December 1684 at Duxbury. His will and inventory of his estate are on record at Plymouth.

Henry Samson and Ann Plummer had nine children, but descent has been proven through only seven of them: Stephen, James, Caleb, Elizabeth, Hannah, Dorcas, and a daughter (name unknown) who married John Hanmer.

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In 1620 Henry Samson came to Massachusetts on the Mayflower with his relstives Edward and Anne Tilley and Humility Cooper.

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Henry Sampson was born in Henlow, Bedford, England, and came on the Mayflower at the age of about 17 with his uncle & aunt, Edward and Ann(Cooper) Tilley. He married Ann Plummer in 1635/36 at Plymouth, became a freeman in Plymouth around that time, and volunteered for service in the Pequot War of 1637, but Plymouth's company was not called into service. By 1643 he had moved to Duxbury, where he became constable in 1661, and tax collector for 1667 and 1668. He was on a large number of juries and grand juries, and was appointed a surveyor on a couple of occasions. His wife died between 1668 and 1684: Henry died in 1684 at Duxbury.

HENRY SAMPSON IN THE 17TH CENTURY RECORDS:

Henry Sampson: Mayflower passenger

The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first beginners and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England: and their families....

"Edward Tilley and Ann his wife,and two children that were their cousins, Henry Sampson and Humility Cooper"

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647.ed.

Samuel Eliot Morison(New York: Knopf, 1991). p.442

Henry Sampson & the 1623 Division of Land. Recorded in the handwriting of Governor William Bradford. The lands of " Henerie Samson" were among those designated as "their grounds which came first over in the May Floure, according as their lotes were case" and described this way "these lye one the north side of the towne nexte adjoyning to their gardens which came in the Fortune."---Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 12, p 5

           ---Henry Sampson: A 1626 "Purchaser"

Henry Sampson: 1650

"And seeing it hath pleased Him to give me(William Bradford) to see thirty years completed since these beginnings, and that the great works of His providence are to be observed, I have thought it not unworthy my pains to take a view of the decreasings and increasings of these persons and such changes as hath passed over them and theirs in the thirty years....

"Edward Tilley and his wife both died soon after their arrival, and the girl Humility, their cousin, was sent for into England and died there. But the youth Henry Sampson is still living and is married and hath seven children"

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647,ed.

This is an"old style" date. According to the modern calandar, his date of death would be January 3, 1685

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Came to America on the Mayflower.

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He came on the Mayflower at the age of about 17 with his uncle and aunt, Edward and Ann (Cooper) Tilley. He married Ann Plummer in 1635/6 at Plymouth, became a freeman in Plymouth around that time, and volunteered for service in the Pequot War of 1637, but Plymouth's company was not called into service. By 1643 he had moved to Duxbury, where he became constable in 1661, and tax collector for 1667 and 1668. He was on a large number of juries and grand juries, and was appointed a surveyor on a couple of occasions. His wife died sometime between 1668 and 1684; he died in 1684 at Duxbury.

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Henry Samson was born in Henlow, Bedford, England, and came on the Mayflower at the age of about 17 with his uncle and aunt, Edward and Ann (Cooper) Tilley. He married Ann Plummer in 1635/6 at Plymouth, became a freeman in Plymouth around that time, and volunteered for service in the Pequot War of 1637, but Plymouth's company was not called into service. By 1643 he had moved to Duxbury, where he became constable in 1661, and tax collector for 1667 and 1668. He was on a large number of juries and grand juries, and was appointed a surveyor on a couple of occasions. His wife died sometime between 1668 and 1684; he died in 1684 at Duxbury.

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Pilgrim

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Henry Samson came as a young sixteen year old boy on the Mayflower, under the care of his aunt and uncle Edward and Ann (Cooper) Tilley. Henry Samson volunteered and fought in the Pequot War of 1637, and during his life took on several civil positions including constable of Duxbury, property surveyor, and tax collector. Henry Samson married Ann Plummer, whose ancestry is unknown. However, Ann had a sister Mary Plummer, who married John Barnes in Plymouth on 12 September 1633.

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