Samuel Simpson

Samuel Simpson

• BIRTH 1738 - Perquimans County, North Carolina, USA
• DEATH 1808 (aged 69–70) - Orange County, North Carolina, USA
• BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
• MEMORIAL ID 221009239 · View Source

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Samuel Simpson was born about 1738, in Perquimans County, North Carolina, on Albemarle Sound, to Benjamin Simpson and his wife Zilpha. He was one of three known children of Benjamin and Zilpha Simpson. His older brother, Benjamin Simpson Jr., was born about 1735; the age and name of their other brother, mentioned in a 1759 tax record ["Benjamin Simpson and 3 sons..."] for Benjamin Sr, are unknown. Samuel was born after his parents moved from Chowan County to adjacent Perquimans County. It's not known in which county his brothers were born.

In 1754 Samuel and Benjamin Jr. appear together in the Perquimans County militia rolls, indicating both were 16 years of age by that date.

Benjamin Sr. granted 53 acres of land in Perquimans County to Samuel on 9 January 1759, land that Benjamin Sr. was living on at the time. This indicates that Samuel was 21 years of age by this date. The land grant mentions "the other half, being the property of Benjamin Simpson Jun." Benjamin Sr. died 3 years later, in 1762; he mentions his wife Zilpha and his sister Mary in his will. Samuel married Mary Swain 5 years later, on 21 September 1767, in Tyrell County, across on the south side of Albemarle Sound.

Samuel and Mary had 9 known children. The eldest was Benjamin Swain Simpson, born in 1769, followed by Elizabeth, John, Charles, Samuel, Luke, Rosanna, Anna, and Frederick. The children, and their birthdates, are listed in Samuel's copy of the Kirk of Scotland Catechism. The list was attached, by his son Luke, to the claim for Samuel's pension for his Revolutionary War service, filed on behalf of Samuel's children after his death.

Samuel enlisted in the 3rd Regiment, of the North Carolina Continental Line [1], on 1 January 1777 for a term of 2 1/2 years. He is noted as having been sick while at Valley Forge, with General Washington's army. During Samuel's enlistment, the regiment was involved in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, and was later stationed at West Point and Stoney Point in New York.

By 1779 Samuel was back in Chowan County, where he and his family remained until about 1795 when the family moved to Orange County N.C. They may have followed Samuel and Mary's first son Benjamin Swain Simpson to Orange County; he was there in the 1800 census. Samuel last appears in the record deeding land in Chowan County to Frederick Creecy in 1794.

Samuel died in 1808; for reasons unknown, Mary appears, apparently without Samuel, in the 1800 Orange County census.

Note 1: The record actually indicates the 2nd Battalion, but at the time the term Battalion was sometimes used interchangeably with the regiment.

• Samuel Simpson in the North Carolina, U.S., Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
• Name: Samuel Simpson
• Gender: Male
• Spouse: Mary Swain
• Spouse Gender: Female
• Bond date: 21 Sep 1763
• Bond #: 000150383
• Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
• Image Num: 007784
• County: Tyrell
• Record #: 01 110
• Bondsman: John Tarkinton; Jeremiah Wynne
• Witness: Jeremiah Wynne

online note says Revolutionary Service, Corporal, Private & land warrant 19 May 1784.