BAGNELL, ELLA
Working as a temperance reformer in Connecticut and associate editor of a temperance newspaper there in the late 1800s, Ella Bagnell Kendrick (b 1849) and husband Henry M. Kendrick seem to have had no children. However, as of the 1865 MA state census of Plymouth, MA, her home town, she had 3 younger siblings who may have carried on the line. They and Ella were Samson, Alden-Mullins, Doty, Hopkins, Brewster, Standish, Cooke, Bradford, and Warren descendants (several times.) Here is Ella's Gen 8 Samson line, beginning with her father: Richard Bagnell, Lydia (Sampson) Bagnell, Ebenezer Sampson, Ebenezer, David, Caleb, young Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image & scant info from Frances E. Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds., American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, Vol. II (NY: Mast. Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897), pp. 432-3, digitized by the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, posted on Internet Archive.
Working as a temperance reformer in Connecticut and associate editor of a temperance newspaper there in the late 1800s, Ella Bagnell Kendrick (b 1849) and husband Henry M. Kendrick seem to have had no children. However, as of the 1865 MA state census of Plymouth, MA, her home town, she had 3 younger siblings who may have carried on the line. They and Ella were Samson, Alden-Mullins, Doty, Hopkins, Brewster, Standish, Cooke, Bradford, and Warren descendants (several times.) Here is Ella's Gen 8 Samson line, beginning with her father: Richard Bagnell, Lydia (Sampson) Bagnell, Ebenezer Sampson, Ebenezer, David, Caleb, young Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image & scant info from Frances E. Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds., American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, Vol. II (NY: Mast. Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897), pp. 432-3, digitized by the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, posted on Internet Archive.
BASSETT, RUFUS W.
Businessman Rufus Bassett was a Generation 8 Samson and the Samson silver book, part 2, gets all the way to the birth of his father, Charles Jarvis Holmes Bassett, which makes things much easier for a change. While I did not spot Rufus's birth record on the NEHGS site I did see his marriage and death records, which confirmed the account of his parentage found in the book from which this photo was taken. He was also a Gen 9 Warren, 9/10 Alden-Mullins, and 9 Standish, so the "W." may have stood for Warren. (See those writeups for details.) Charles had an uncle of the exact same name, born in 1790, so make sure you have the correct Charles if you are researching this line. Rufus's Samson line runs as follows: Charles Jarvis Holmes Bassett, Rosalinda (Holmes) Bassett, Abraham Holmes, Hannah (Samson) Holmes, Penelope (Samson) Samson, James, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Rufus is NOT a double Samson-descendant because of Penelope's marriage to Abraham Samson by 1713, as Abraham was not a descendant of Henry. Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 319, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Businessman Rufus Bassett was a Generation 8 Samson and the Samson silver book, part 2, gets all the way to the birth of his father, Charles Jarvis Holmes Bassett, which makes things much easier for a change. While I did not spot Rufus's birth record on the NEHGS site I did see his marriage and death records, which confirmed the account of his parentage found in the book from which this photo was taken. He was also a Gen 9 Warren, 9/10 Alden-Mullins, and 9 Standish, so the "W." may have stood for Warren. (See those writeups for details.) Charles had an uncle of the exact same name, born in 1790, so make sure you have the correct Charles if you are researching this line. Rufus's Samson line runs as follows: Charles Jarvis Holmes Bassett, Rosalinda (Holmes) Bassett, Abraham Holmes, Hannah (Samson) Holmes, Penelope (Samson) Samson, James, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Rufus is NOT a double Samson-descendant because of Penelope's marriage to Abraham Samson by 1713, as Abraham was not a descendant of Henry. Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 319, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
BISBEE, OTIS
From a family that moved from Plymouth County, MA to Hampshire Co in western MA about the 1770s then to eastern New York when he was a child, Otis (b 1822) made his mark as an educator, according to the book with this photo. The genealogy in the book is not accurate beyond the grandparents though some towns and names are correct even if they are not the relatives specified. Also, being in western MA, the records (including Otis's birth) won't necessarily be online so you may have to mail away for them. Otis's Gen 8 Samson line runs as follows, beginning with his father: Job Bisbee, Jotham, Gideon, Mary (Oldham) Bisbee, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson silver book, v2, gets as far as the birth of Job. Otis was also a Cooke on his mother's side, so see that section for that line. Image and some info from Commemorative Biographical Record of Dutchess Co, NY (Chicago: Beers, 1897), p. 28, digitized by the Library of Congress. A sharper scan from a hardcover version would be appreciated.
From a family that moved from Plymouth County, MA to Hampshire Co in western MA about the 1770s then to eastern New York when he was a child, Otis (b 1822) made his mark as an educator, according to the book with this photo. The genealogy in the book is not accurate beyond the grandparents though some towns and names are correct even if they are not the relatives specified. Also, being in western MA, the records (including Otis's birth) won't necessarily be online so you may have to mail away for them. Otis's Gen 8 Samson line runs as follows, beginning with his father: Job Bisbee, Jotham, Gideon, Mary (Oldham) Bisbee, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson silver book, v2, gets as far as the birth of Job. Otis was also a Cooke on his mother's side, so see that section for that line. Image and some info from Commemorative Biographical Record of Dutchess Co, NY (Chicago: Beers, 1897), p. 28, digitized by the Library of Congress. A sharper scan from a hardcover version would be appreciated.
BREWSTER, BURTON B., LYMAN S., AND WARREN GEORGE
Yes, these images look less than 100 years old; they are from 1939. I am using them to show the potential for mining other public domain sites, in this case the LOC's WPA (Works Progress Administration) photos made for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, curated by Yale's Photogrammar project. These 3 brothers were all born in the west but to a Bostonian whose parents, etc. were all from Duxbury, according to NEHGS vital records online. They are Brewsters, yes, but also have Samson, Alden-Mullins, Rogers, Bradford, and Warren genes. (See those sections for those lineages.) Warren G. (b ca 1898), Lyman S. (b 1900), and Burton B. (b ca 1903) were all born in Wyoming, based on their 1910 & 1940 census records. Their mother Grace (---) (b Dec 1876, CO) had parents from CT & VT; her line is also worth tracing. Their Gen 9 Samson line runs: George Brewster, Nathan Brewster, Abigail (Samson) Brewster, Abigail (Samson) Samson, Elijah, John, Stephen, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Images from Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction numbers LC-USF34-027466, LC-USF34-027464, LC-USF34-027589], in alpha order by brother. |
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COLCORD, ABIGAIL ELIZABETH
A Gen. 7 Samson descendant, Abbie also had Standish, Alden-Mullins, and Rogers genes thanks to her paternal grandmother, Mehitable Samson, who is in the 2016 Alden silver book, Part 5. Abbie's parents and siblings are in the Samson Silver Book but she is not because the source cited was the 1860 census, when Abbie had been married for several years to William T. Carson but the younger siblings were still home. She is in the 1850 FC for IL, though, age 13 and b. ME, and the enumerator spelled her name with 2 B's, "Abbigail." Her Samson line runs as follows: Samuel Colcord, Mehitable (Samson) Colcord, Michael/Micah Samson, Caleb, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See her other write-ups for those lineages. If you are researching the Colcord family be sure to remember to pronounce it like a native New Englander and then look for spellings that match. "Colcott" and "Colket" sometimes referred to "Colcords." Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 79, 81, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
A Gen. 7 Samson descendant, Abbie also had Standish, Alden-Mullins, and Rogers genes thanks to her paternal grandmother, Mehitable Samson, who is in the 2016 Alden silver book, Part 5. Abbie's parents and siblings are in the Samson Silver Book but she is not because the source cited was the 1860 census, when Abbie had been married for several years to William T. Carson but the younger siblings were still home. She is in the 1850 FC for IL, though, age 13 and b. ME, and the enumerator spelled her name with 2 B's, "Abbigail." Her Samson line runs as follows: Samuel Colcord, Mehitable (Samson) Colcord, Michael/Micah Samson, Caleb, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See her other write-ups for those lineages. If you are researching the Colcord family be sure to remember to pronounce it like a native New Englander and then look for spellings that match. "Colcott" and "Colket" sometimes referred to "Colcords." Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 79, 81, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
COLCORD, AMMI MITCHELL
The Colcord genealogy contains nothing more about Ammi (Ami) than his picture, birth year (1824), and first name among the list of children of Daniel and Mehitable (Sampson) Colcord, and the statement that in 1908 he was living in Bunker Hill, IL. Gen 6 Ammi is written up in part 3 of the Samson Silver Books, though, along with siblings Jane, Samuel (Sr.), and William Sampson Colcord, all below. Both the Samson book and the 1900 census say that he was born in 1820. In 1820 he was enumerated in Bunker Hill (Macoupin Co., in central IL) with daughters Ada and Eula. See Jane's writeup for their lineage. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 85, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
The Colcord genealogy contains nothing more about Ammi (Ami) than his picture, birth year (1824), and first name among the list of children of Daniel and Mehitable (Sampson) Colcord, and the statement that in 1908 he was living in Bunker Hill, IL. Gen 6 Ammi is written up in part 3 of the Samson Silver Books, though, along with siblings Jane, Samuel (Sr.), and William Sampson Colcord, all below. Both the Samson book and the 1900 census say that he was born in 1820. In 1820 he was enumerated in Bunker Hill (Macoupin Co., in central IL) with daughters Ada and Eula. See Jane's writeup for their lineage. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 85, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
COLCORD, JANE
Paternal aunt of Abigail Elizabeth Colcord, above, Jane (Colcord) Clark was a Gen. 6 Samson, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, 7 Standish, and 8 Rogers. Her parents' marriage is in the 2016 Alden silver book Part 5 and Jane's own birth and marriage are mentioned in vol. 3 of the Samson silver books. The author of the book from which this image was taken says only that the parents were "of Exeter, NH" and that Jane was b. 9 June 1819. However, the Samson book has only her oldest 2 siblings born in Exeter and Jane, the youngest, and 2 older sibs were supposedly born in Yarmouth, ME. I see no source cited for this info, however, so if you are a Clark descendant, please try to verify one or the other. Jane and her siblings Samuel, William, and Otis all wound up in Greenville, IL, so look there. This line runs as follows: Mehitable (Samson) Colcord, Michael/Micah Samson, Caleb, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See her other write-ups for those lineages. Image & info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 81, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Paternal aunt of Abigail Elizabeth Colcord, above, Jane (Colcord) Clark was a Gen. 6 Samson, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, 7 Standish, and 8 Rogers. Her parents' marriage is in the 2016 Alden silver book Part 5 and Jane's own birth and marriage are mentioned in vol. 3 of the Samson silver books. The author of the book from which this image was taken says only that the parents were "of Exeter, NH" and that Jane was b. 9 June 1819. However, the Samson book has only her oldest 2 siblings born in Exeter and Jane, the youngest, and 2 older sibs were supposedly born in Yarmouth, ME. I see no source cited for this info, however, so if you are a Clark descendant, please try to verify one or the other. Jane and her siblings Samuel, William, and Otis all wound up in Greenville, IL, so look there. This line runs as follows: Mehitable (Samson) Colcord, Michael/Micah Samson, Caleb, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See her other write-ups for those lineages. Image & info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 81, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
COLCORD, OTIS BRIGGS
The book has about as much info on Otis as it does on Ammi. He was born in 1817 or 1818 and died in 1898, depending on which page you read. He also emigrated to Illinois and was known to have married and had one son, also an Otis. Like Ammi, Jane, and Samuel, he was a Gen. 6 Samson, 7 Standish, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, and 8 Rogers. See Jane's writeup for more details. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 53, 82-3, 85, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
The book has about as much info on Otis as it does on Ammi. He was born in 1817 or 1818 and died in 1898, depending on which page you read. He also emigrated to Illinois and was known to have married and had one son, also an Otis. Like Ammi, Jane, and Samuel, he was a Gen. 6 Samson, 7 Standish, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, and 8 Rogers. See Jane's writeup for more details. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 53, 82-3, 85, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
COLCORD, SAMUEL
Brother of Jane and father of Abigail Elizabeth, both above, Samuel Colcord (b. 1811) was a Gen. 6 Samson, 7 Standish, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, and 8 Rogers. See Jane's writeup or more details on Samuel and the family. Like hers, his Samson line runs: Mehitable (Samson) Colcord, Michael/Micah Samson, Caleb, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See their other write-ups for those lineages. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 85, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Brother of Jane and father of Abigail Elizabeth, both above, Samuel Colcord (b. 1811) was a Gen. 6 Samson, 7 Standish, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, and 8 Rogers. See Jane's writeup or more details on Samuel and the family. Like hers, his Samson line runs: Mehitable (Samson) Colcord, Michael/Micah Samson, Caleb, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See their other write-ups for those lineages. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 85, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
COLCORD, (Rev.) SAMUEL
Son of Samuel and brother of Abigail, above, Rev. Samuel Colcord would be a Gen. 7 Samson, 8 Standish, 8/9 Alden-Mullins, and 9 Rogers. See Abigail Elizabeth Colcord's writeup for the lineage. Born in 1849, according to the family genealogy, he was a minister and in New York City and married Alice Blinn from that area. The author writes of a series of lectures culminating in a famous public debate with an agnostic. It drew a big crowd and may have been covered by the newspapers there in 1895. The book mentions no children but media coverage might mention something about collateral relatives. IImage and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 80-82, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Son of Samuel and brother of Abigail, above, Rev. Samuel Colcord would be a Gen. 7 Samson, 8 Standish, 8/9 Alden-Mullins, and 9 Rogers. See Abigail Elizabeth Colcord's writeup for the lineage. Born in 1849, according to the family genealogy, he was a minister and in New York City and married Alice Blinn from that area. The author writes of a series of lectures culminating in a famous public debate with an agnostic. It drew a big crowd and may have been covered by the newspapers there in 1895. The book mentions no children but media coverage might mention something about collateral relatives. IImage and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 80-82, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
COLCORD, WILLIAM SAMPSON
Brother of Jane and Samuel and uncle of Abigail and Rev. Samuel (all above), William (b 1815, Exeter, NH) was also a Gen. 6 Samson, 7 Standish, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, and 8 Rogers. See Jane's writeup or more details on William and the line. William was one of the family members who moved to Greenville, IL, so look for his descendants there. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 84, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Brother of Jane and Samuel and uncle of Abigail and Rev. Samuel (all above), William (b 1815, Exeter, NH) was also a Gen. 6 Samson, 7 Standish, 7/8 Alden-Mullins, and 8 Rogers. See Jane's writeup or more details on William and the line. William was one of the family members who moved to Greenville, IL, so look for his descendants there. Image and info from Doane B. Colcord, Colcord Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colcord of New Hampshire, 1630 to 1908 (Coudersport, PA: Mahlon J. Colcord, 1908), pp. 52-3, 84, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CURTIS, WALTER MOLBRAY
Assuming it was he who provided the biographical info to the author of the book with this image, Walter (b. S. Abington, MA 1879) knew that he was a Bradford descendant and thought he as a White, but missed Henry Samson on his father's side and John Alden, William & Priscilla Mullins, Myles Standish, Richard Warren, and George Soule on his mother's. See his Soule writeup for a bit more information and the other pilgrim writeups for those lineages. Here is Walter's Gen 8 Samson line: Edwin M. Curtis, Lupira (Bisbee) Curtis, Gamaliel Bisbee, Mary (Oldham) Bisbee, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Lupira's siblings are in the Samson silver book but she was overlooked somehow. Her birth record is on the same page in MA VRs to 1850. Image & some info from Andrew Van Vranken Raymond, Union University, Its History, Influence, Characteristics, and Equipment, Vol. II (NY: Lewis, 1907), p. 13, and digitized by the NY Public Library. Walter got his middle name from his paternal grandfather but the "Molbray" Curtis of two generations earlier was "Malborough," "Malbray," "Mallery," "Molbry," and "Molborough" in the records I saw online. Literally no two alike.
Assuming it was he who provided the biographical info to the author of the book with this image, Walter (b. S. Abington, MA 1879) knew that he was a Bradford descendant and thought he as a White, but missed Henry Samson on his father's side and John Alden, William & Priscilla Mullins, Myles Standish, Richard Warren, and George Soule on his mother's. See his Soule writeup for a bit more information and the other pilgrim writeups for those lineages. Here is Walter's Gen 8 Samson line: Edwin M. Curtis, Lupira (Bisbee) Curtis, Gamaliel Bisbee, Mary (Oldham) Bisbee, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Lupira's siblings are in the Samson silver book but she was overlooked somehow. Her birth record is on the same page in MA VRs to 1850. Image & some info from Andrew Van Vranken Raymond, Union University, Its History, Influence, Characteristics, and Equipment, Vol. II (NY: Lewis, 1907), p. 13, and digitized by the NY Public Library. Walter got his middle name from his paternal grandfather but the "Molbray" Curtis of two generations earlier was "Malborough," "Malbray," "Mallery," "Molbry," and "Molborough" in the records I saw online. Literally no two alike.
DeMARANVILLE, ARTHUR
He was born in Freetown in 1864, one of 11 children of a "teamer" (someone who drove a team of horses) and wife Sarah Braley. Arthur was also a Gen 9 & 10 White descendant and you can read in his White writeup and that of his wife, Evalina, about their joint plethora of White lines. Arthur's line also contains a Howland but not necessarily a Mayflower Howland line, as John's brothers Arthur and Henry also settled in SE MA. His two Reynolds lines and Hathaway line are also worth researching. Arthur's Gen 9 Samson line runs as follows: Dennis DeMaranville, Sarah (Edminster) DeMaranville, John Edminster, John, Mary (Keen) Edminster, Hannah (Sprout) Keen, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Sprout connection makes him a distant cousin of Walter Molbray Curtis, above. Image and some info from George L. Randall, DeMaranville Genealogy: Descendants of Louis DeMaranville (New Bedford: Mercury, 1921), pp. 5, 10, 22, 52, 55, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
He was born in Freetown in 1864, one of 11 children of a "teamer" (someone who drove a team of horses) and wife Sarah Braley. Arthur was also a Gen 9 & 10 White descendant and you can read in his White writeup and that of his wife, Evalina, about their joint plethora of White lines. Arthur's line also contains a Howland but not necessarily a Mayflower Howland line, as John's brothers Arthur and Henry also settled in SE MA. His two Reynolds lines and Hathaway line are also worth researching. Arthur's Gen 9 Samson line runs as follows: Dennis DeMaranville, Sarah (Edminster) DeMaranville, John Edminster, John, Mary (Keen) Edminster, Hannah (Sprout) Keen, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Sprout connection makes him a distant cousin of Walter Molbray Curtis, above. Image and some info from George L. Randall, DeMaranville Genealogy: Descendants of Louis DeMaranville (New Bedford: Mercury, 1921), pp. 5, 10, 22, 52, 55, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
ELLIS, BENJAMIN
Benjamin Ellis (b. 1775, Carver) was a Samson, double Howland-Tilley, Allerton, Cooke, and Hopkins. He was also the uncle of Hon. Jesse Murdock, below. See Benjamin's other write-ups for those lineages & the Howland-Tilley section for more info overall. His birth is in the Henry Samson silver book, Part 2. Benjamin's Gen. 7 Samson line runs: Joseph Ellis, Lucia (Bennett) Ellis, Thankful (Sprout) Bennett, Ebenezer Sprout, Elizabeth Samson, Henry of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 106, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Benjamin Ellis (b. 1775, Carver) was a Samson, double Howland-Tilley, Allerton, Cooke, and Hopkins. He was also the uncle of Hon. Jesse Murdock, below. See Benjamin's other write-ups for those lineages & the Howland-Tilley section for more info overall. His birth is in the Henry Samson silver book, Part 2. Benjamin's Gen. 7 Samson line runs: Joseph Ellis, Lucia (Bennett) Ellis, Thankful (Sprout) Bennett, Ebenezer Sprout, Elizabeth Samson, Henry of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 106, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
ELY, JOHN HUGH
Elys are in various Silver Books but this one popped up in a book about several early New Jersey families. It mentioned that his mother was a Delano and he belonged to the SAR and was an "elder" in the "Mayflower Society," state or national unspecified. The GSMD's seven-generation series of green paperbacks on the Delano family was the place to search, fingers crossed that they picked up someone born in 1846 in Chillicothe, OH. It did, and the book containing the photo also mentions his Civil War and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) service, so you might find additional photos that way. John was a Samson, Warren, and Cooke. (See those sections for those lines.) His Gen. 8 Samson lineage runs: Mary (Delano) Ely, Amasa Delano, Amasa Delano, Abigail (Hammond) Delano, Priscilla (Samson) Hammond, James Samson, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson Silver Book, vol. 2, also gets as far as John's parents, Mary Delano & Seneca Wilson Ely. Use caution when submitting a Cooke or Warren lineage, though, as Abigail Hammond is not named in the 1996 Cooke book (only a brother Samuel) but she IS named in the 2000 Samson book (and brother Samuel is not.) The 2001 Warren book also mentions her, as does the 2012 Delano book. The Ely/Revell/Stacye book compilers admit that this Hammond family is a puzzler. He is a second cousin of Philip Delano Hammond, below, thus a second cousin once removed from Philip's daughter Pauline. Image and info from Reuben Pownal Ely, Warren Smedley Ely, and Daniel Brittain Ely, compilers, An Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell, and Stacye Families, Who Were Among the Founders of Trenton and Burlington in the Province of West Jersey 1678-1683 with the Genealogy of the Ely Descendants in America (NY: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1910), pp. 395-6, digitized possibly by the Boston Public Libraries.
Elys are in various Silver Books but this one popped up in a book about several early New Jersey families. It mentioned that his mother was a Delano and he belonged to the SAR and was an "elder" in the "Mayflower Society," state or national unspecified. The GSMD's seven-generation series of green paperbacks on the Delano family was the place to search, fingers crossed that they picked up someone born in 1846 in Chillicothe, OH. It did, and the book containing the photo also mentions his Civil War and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) service, so you might find additional photos that way. John was a Samson, Warren, and Cooke. (See those sections for those lines.) His Gen. 8 Samson lineage runs: Mary (Delano) Ely, Amasa Delano, Amasa Delano, Abigail (Hammond) Delano, Priscilla (Samson) Hammond, James Samson, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson Silver Book, vol. 2, also gets as far as John's parents, Mary Delano & Seneca Wilson Ely. Use caution when submitting a Cooke or Warren lineage, though, as Abigail Hammond is not named in the 1996 Cooke book (only a brother Samuel) but she IS named in the 2000 Samson book (and brother Samuel is not.) The 2001 Warren book also mentions her, as does the 2012 Delano book. The Ely/Revell/Stacye book compilers admit that this Hammond family is a puzzler. He is a second cousin of Philip Delano Hammond, below, thus a second cousin once removed from Philip's daughter Pauline. Image and info from Reuben Pownal Ely, Warren Smedley Ely, and Daniel Brittain Ely, compilers, An Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell, and Stacye Families, Who Were Among the Founders of Trenton and Burlington in the Province of West Jersey 1678-1683 with the Genealogy of the Ely Descendants in America (NY: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1910), pp. 395-6, digitized possibly by the Boston Public Libraries.
Filoon, Veranus
Veranus could claim Generation 9 descent from Henry Samson, John Alden, Myles Standish, and Generation 10 Mullins descent. The story is that the 2 Filoon brothers were Scots-Irish immigrants from County Armagh in the late 1700s and one, James Filoon, settled in Abington, MA. His son John Williams Filoon married Mary Fullerton (Noah, Asa, John, John) whose parents, Generation 7, appear in the Samson Silver Book, part 3. (This is a rarity in the Silver Book series.) Great-grandfather John and earlier Fullertons are in the Alden Silver Books. Mary's father Noah Fullerton was also a Generation 7/8 Alden-Mullins and Generation 7 Standish via the 1st marriage of John Fullerton b. Boston 1696 to Ruth Samson, daughter of Mercy Standish, granddaughter of Sarah Alden. Reportedly this John had 17 children, the last born when some of his children were already grandparents. Although the Fullerton family has many Mayflower descendants, John, Sr. worked for then-Gov. Winslow and fled to Canada during the Revolutionary War. Check the next two generations for possible Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution patriots. Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 176, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
FULLER, GEORGE A.
The description in the book from which this image was taken states that George was a direct descendant of Samuel Fuller of the Mayflower. (See his Fuller description for those details.) If the assumptions I made are correct, his great-great grandmother Fuller was a Samson descendant plus an Alden-Mullins & Standish via a non-Mayflower Samson line. Caution: the Samson book, part 2, published in 2005, gave the marriage of Ziba Fuller but had found only one child, a Severance (not Simeon), but the implication is that there may have been more. Check out the next Samson & Samuel Fuller volumes when they come out. George's Samson line should be Gen 9, as follows: Andrew J. Fuller, Asa, Ziba, Ann (Blackmer) Fuller, Rebecca (Samson) Blackmer, Penelope (Samson) Samson, James, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See his Standish and Alden-Mullins writeup for those details. Image from Franklyn Howland, A History of the Town of Acushnet (New Bedford: author, 1907), p. 293, digitized by the Library of Congress.
The description in the book from which this image was taken states that George was a direct descendant of Samuel Fuller of the Mayflower. (See his Fuller description for those details.) If the assumptions I made are correct, his great-great grandmother Fuller was a Samson descendant plus an Alden-Mullins & Standish via a non-Mayflower Samson line. Caution: the Samson book, part 2, published in 2005, gave the marriage of Ziba Fuller but had found only one child, a Severance (not Simeon), but the implication is that there may have been more. Check out the next Samson & Samuel Fuller volumes when they come out. George's Samson line should be Gen 9, as follows: Andrew J. Fuller, Asa, Ziba, Ann (Blackmer) Fuller, Rebecca (Samson) Blackmer, Penelope (Samson) Samson, James, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See his Standish and Alden-Mullins writeup for those details. Image from Franklyn Howland, A History of the Town of Acushnet (New Bedford: author, 1907), p. 293, digitized by the Library of Congress.
HALL, ALMEDA
Much of the biography in the volume with this picture is a lamentation about a life cut short, with the blame placed on the cares of motherhood and a husband off at war, but the medical culprit was then-rampant tuberculosis. Almeda did leave a son Albert and daughter Margaret when she died in 1865, 2 of the 3 children she had with George Winslow Cobb of the 61st MA Vols. (He was the son of Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, they married in 1856, and it would be reasonable to look for Mayflower descendants on his side.) The bio did state that Almeda was born in Marshfield, MA in 1834 and a White, Standish, and Brewster through her mother. I found no Brewster and the authors missed the Doty, Warren, Alden-Mullins, and Samson lines and that the descent was through both parents, Sarah Kent and William Hall. Here is Almeda's Gen 8 Samson line: Sarah (Kent) Hall, William Kent, Mary (Sampson) Kent, Charles Samson, David, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See the other sections for the other lines. Image & info from Mary Elvira Elliot, et al., comp., Representative Women of New England (Boston: New England Historical Publishing, 1904), 140-1, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Much of the biography in the volume with this picture is a lamentation about a life cut short, with the blame placed on the cares of motherhood and a husband off at war, but the medical culprit was then-rampant tuberculosis. Almeda did leave a son Albert and daughter Margaret when she died in 1865, 2 of the 3 children she had with George Winslow Cobb of the 61st MA Vols. (He was the son of Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, they married in 1856, and it would be reasonable to look for Mayflower descendants on his side.) The bio did state that Almeda was born in Marshfield, MA in 1834 and a White, Standish, and Brewster through her mother. I found no Brewster and the authors missed the Doty, Warren, Alden-Mullins, and Samson lines and that the descent was through both parents, Sarah Kent and William Hall. Here is Almeda's Gen 8 Samson line: Sarah (Kent) Hall, William Kent, Mary (Sampson) Kent, Charles Samson, David, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See the other sections for the other lines. Image & info from Mary Elvira Elliot, et al., comp., Representative Women of New England (Boston: New England Historical Publishing, 1904), 140-1, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
HAMMOND, (LINNIE) PAULINE
She went by Pauline and was said to be a "fine contralto singer" and "Manager of the Telephone Exchange at Roxbury for 13 years," apparently before marrying William Tilden Clark of that city. Whether they had children is not stated in the book with this picture but she sounds like someone who would have more pictures somewhere if you look hard enough. Pauline (b 1857) was the daughter of Rev. Philip Delano Hammond, whose name was the first clue that this branch of Hammonds might have Mayflower bloodlines. (Her father was a second cousin of the Rev. John Hugh Ely, above.) According to the Delano green books published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD), they are Samson, Cooke, and Warren descendants. (See the other sections for those lines.) Pauline's Gen. 8 Samson lineage runs: Philip Delano Hammond, Philip, Priscilla (Delano) Hammond, Abigail (Hammond) Delano, Priscilla (Samson) Hammond, James Samson, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson silver book Part 2 gets all the way to the birth of her father in 1827. Image and info from Roland Hammond, A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond of London, England and his Wife Elizabeth Penn, through their Son Benjamin of Sandwich and Rochester, Mass. 1600-1894 (Boston: Clapp, 1894), pp. 170-73, digitized by U Mass Dartmouth.
She went by Pauline and was said to be a "fine contralto singer" and "Manager of the Telephone Exchange at Roxbury for 13 years," apparently before marrying William Tilden Clark of that city. Whether they had children is not stated in the book with this picture but she sounds like someone who would have more pictures somewhere if you look hard enough. Pauline (b 1857) was the daughter of Rev. Philip Delano Hammond, whose name was the first clue that this branch of Hammonds might have Mayflower bloodlines. (Her father was a second cousin of the Rev. John Hugh Ely, above.) According to the Delano green books published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD), they are Samson, Cooke, and Warren descendants. (See the other sections for those lines.) Pauline's Gen. 8 Samson lineage runs: Philip Delano Hammond, Philip, Priscilla (Delano) Hammond, Abigail (Hammond) Delano, Priscilla (Samson) Hammond, James Samson, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson silver book Part 2 gets all the way to the birth of her father in 1827. Image and info from Roland Hammond, A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond of London, England and his Wife Elizabeth Penn, through their Son Benjamin of Sandwich and Rochester, Mass. 1600-1894 (Boston: Clapp, 1894), pp. 170-73, digitized by U Mass Dartmouth.
HAMMOND, PHILIP DELANO
Father of (Linnie) Pauline, above, his Gen. 7 Samson lineage is outlined in her writeup, and their other lineages are on the Cooke and Warren pages. His own birth in 1827 is actually in the Samson silver book and the book with this photo mentions other children with known children, including William Bowen of Indiana, Venora (who married a Robbins and also moved to IN), and Stella who married an architect named Unterzee and lived in Boston. If you are a descendant of any of them you are extremely fortunate in having your line proven all the way to 1827. The Hammond book is decent enough that it is cited in some of the silver books but be aware in this branch over some confusion on page 172, where this Philip is given a birth year of 1794, which was when his oldest brother by his father's first wife was born. Image and info from Roland Hammond, A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond..... (Boston: Clapp, 1894), pp. 170-72, digitized by U Mass Dartmouth. As always, a scan of a hardcover original, in which the people are not yellow and blurry, would be appreciated.
Father of (Linnie) Pauline, above, his Gen. 7 Samson lineage is outlined in her writeup, and their other lineages are on the Cooke and Warren pages. His own birth in 1827 is actually in the Samson silver book and the book with this photo mentions other children with known children, including William Bowen of Indiana, Venora (who married a Robbins and also moved to IN), and Stella who married an architect named Unterzee and lived in Boston. If you are a descendant of any of them you are extremely fortunate in having your line proven all the way to 1827. The Hammond book is decent enough that it is cited in some of the silver books but be aware in this branch over some confusion on page 172, where this Philip is given a birth year of 1794, which was when his oldest brother by his father's first wife was born. Image and info from Roland Hammond, A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond..... (Boston: Clapp, 1894), pp. 170-72, digitized by U Mass Dartmouth. As always, a scan of a hardcover original, in which the people are not yellow and blurry, would be appreciated.
KINGMAN, HOSEA
His closest relative on this page is first cousin Nathan Washburn, below. They share grandparents Cyrus Washburn and Betsey Bump (Bumpus). Like Nathan, Hosea was a Gen 9 Samson descendant and a Gen 10 Rogers & Cooke but on his mother's side AND he was also a Gen 10 Cooke on his father's side. For more details on Hosea see his Cooke writeup. His Samson line runs: Betsey B. {Washburn) Kingman, Cyrus Washburn, Luther, Amos, Elizabeth (Richmond) Washburn, Anna (Sprout) Richmond, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson the Pilgrim. Image and info from Conrad Reno, Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century, Vol. II (Boston: Century Memorial, 1901), p. 446, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
His closest relative on this page is first cousin Nathan Washburn, below. They share grandparents Cyrus Washburn and Betsey Bump (Bumpus). Like Nathan, Hosea was a Gen 9 Samson descendant and a Gen 10 Rogers & Cooke but on his mother's side AND he was also a Gen 10 Cooke on his father's side. For more details on Hosea see his Cooke writeup. His Samson line runs: Betsey B. {Washburn) Kingman, Cyrus Washburn, Luther, Amos, Elizabeth (Richmond) Washburn, Anna (Sprout) Richmond, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson the Pilgrim. Image and info from Conrad Reno, Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century, Vol. II (Boston: Century Memorial, 1901), p. 446, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
LITTLE, CHARLES DAVID
Younger brother of Norman and William, below, Charles D. Little (1822-1903) was also b. Avon, NY and d. Saginaw, MI. He became an attorney and was elected to the state legislature three times in the 1860s & '70s, according to the author of the book with his picture. He was also in the Civil War and later active in the local G.A.R. post. All this means you should be able to find more pictures of him. At least 2 of his 4 children, daughters, married and may have had children, possibly of the surnames Ostrom and Stark. See Norman's writeup for Charles's Gen 7 Samson lineage and some cautions and tips about proving this line, and their Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren writeups also. Image and info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 152, 154-6 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
Younger brother of Norman and William, below, Charles D. Little (1822-1903) was also b. Avon, NY and d. Saginaw, MI. He became an attorney and was elected to the state legislature three times in the 1860s & '70s, according to the author of the book with his picture. He was also in the Civil War and later active in the local G.A.R. post. All this means you should be able to find more pictures of him. At least 2 of his 4 children, daughters, married and may have had children, possibly of the surnames Ostrom and Stark. See Norman's writeup for Charles's Gen 7 Samson lineage and some cautions and tips about proving this line, and their Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren writeups also. Image and info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 152, 154-6 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
LITTLE, NORMAN
Brother of Charles David Little and William L. P. Little, Norman (1806-1859) was born in Avon, NY according to the author of the book with this picture, and gets the lion's share of the credit for getting Saginaw, MI up and running. He originally came to Saginaw in 1822/23 with his father Dr. Charles Little, but for whatever reason they opted to not relocate until 1836. Two things about this line: I believe Dr. Charles Little, whose birth date is specified in the book, is the same Charles Little in the Samson silver book, of whom there was no further knowledge but he was born on the exact same day. That Charles had a brother Norman and Dr. Charles named his son Norman. The silver book Charles had a brother David and the dr. named a son Charles David. However, you will have to prove Dr. Charles' link because the Saginaw book says nothing about family of origin. Secondly, findagrave shows Charles and wife Wealthy buried in NY but the book says Charles died in 1841 at the Saginaw home of his daughter. Wealthy was interred in NY in 1849 and the book does not mention her ever coming to Saginaw. This is a family that did have the wherewithal and connections to ship a deceased person back to his hometown for burial, so look for death records or certificates in Saginaw first, NY second. Findagrave also shows Charles' wife as the mother of his daughter but calls Norman & brothers Adeline's "half brothers." My money is on full brothers but because someone has now publicly sowed the seeds of doubt, you will be required to investigate that further should you try to join the Mayflower Society on this line. The Little brothers are Samson, double Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren descendants. Their Gen 7 Samson line runs, beginning with the father: Charles Little, Gamaliel, Mary (Sampson) Little, David Samson, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image and info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 132, 152, 192 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
Brother of Charles David Little and William L. P. Little, Norman (1806-1859) was born in Avon, NY according to the author of the book with this picture, and gets the lion's share of the credit for getting Saginaw, MI up and running. He originally came to Saginaw in 1822/23 with his father Dr. Charles Little, but for whatever reason they opted to not relocate until 1836. Two things about this line: I believe Dr. Charles Little, whose birth date is specified in the book, is the same Charles Little in the Samson silver book, of whom there was no further knowledge but he was born on the exact same day. That Charles had a brother Norman and Dr. Charles named his son Norman. The silver book Charles had a brother David and the dr. named a son Charles David. However, you will have to prove Dr. Charles' link because the Saginaw book says nothing about family of origin. Secondly, findagrave shows Charles and wife Wealthy buried in NY but the book says Charles died in 1841 at the Saginaw home of his daughter. Wealthy was interred in NY in 1849 and the book does not mention her ever coming to Saginaw. This is a family that did have the wherewithal and connections to ship a deceased person back to his hometown for burial, so look for death records or certificates in Saginaw first, NY second. Findagrave also shows Charles' wife as the mother of his daughter but calls Norman & brothers Adeline's "half brothers." My money is on full brothers but because someone has now publicly sowed the seeds of doubt, you will be required to investigate that further should you try to join the Mayflower Society on this line. The Little brothers are Samson, double Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren descendants. Their Gen 7 Samson line runs, beginning with the father: Charles Little, Gamaliel, Mary (Sampson) Little, David Samson, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image and info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 132, 152, 192 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
LITTLE, WILLIAM L. P.
I do not know what the "L. P." stood for but it might give you some useful links to connect him with his parents' extended families. See brother Norman's writeup, above, for advice about using this line for lineage society membership. William was also born in Avon, N.Y. in 1814 and died in Saginaw, MI in 1867. He served as mayor of East Saginaw and was "Receiver" of the U.S. Land Office, so you should be able to find more pictures of him in local archives, possibly federal, too. I do not know if he had children. See Norman's writeup for the Gen. 7 Samson lineage and check out their Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren writeups as well. Image and info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 152, 153-5 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
I do not know what the "L. P." stood for but it might give you some useful links to connect him with his parents' extended families. See brother Norman's writeup, above, for advice about using this line for lineage society membership. William was also born in Avon, N.Y. in 1814 and died in Saginaw, MI in 1867. He served as mayor of East Saginaw and was "Receiver" of the U.S. Land Office, so you should be able to find more pictures of him in local archives, possibly federal, too. I do not know if he had children. See Norman's writeup for the Gen. 7 Samson lineage and check out their Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren writeups as well. Image and info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 152, 153-5 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
MACOMBER, THOMAS
The Rev. Thomas (1773-1852) was the third of that name in his family, and Thomases 1 & 2 are in the Samson & Brown silver books. The author of the book with this image had his birth and death dates & places and those matched with his findagrave entry and with the birth recorded in the Marshfield, MA vital records digitized on the NEHGS. (That is where you will find the Gen 5 pages of the GSMD's silver books, too.) Thomas was also the town clerk in Guilford, ME so the information in those records is as accurate as it comes. Here is Rev. Thomas's Gen 7 Samson line, beginning with his father: Thomas Macomber, Mercy (Tilden) Macomber, Desire (Oldham) Tilden, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. He was a distant cousin of numerous people on this page. See the Peter Brown/Browne section for that line. My sincere apologies for the quality of this image. Image & info from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Dover, ME: John Francis Sprague, 1916), 123 digitized by the findmypast PERSI Collection, obtained on Internet Archive. If anyone can get to a hardcover original and scan the Rev. Thomas from that I would be happy to post it here.
The Rev. Thomas (1773-1852) was the third of that name in his family, and Thomases 1 & 2 are in the Samson & Brown silver books. The author of the book with this image had his birth and death dates & places and those matched with his findagrave entry and with the birth recorded in the Marshfield, MA vital records digitized on the NEHGS. (That is where you will find the Gen 5 pages of the GSMD's silver books, too.) Thomas was also the town clerk in Guilford, ME so the information in those records is as accurate as it comes. Here is Rev. Thomas's Gen 7 Samson line, beginning with his father: Thomas Macomber, Mercy (Tilden) Macomber, Desire (Oldham) Tilden, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. He was a distant cousin of numerous people on this page. See the Peter Brown/Browne section for that line. My sincere apologies for the quality of this image. Image & info from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Dover, ME: John Francis Sprague, 1916), 123 digitized by the findmypast PERSI Collection, obtained on Internet Archive. If anyone can get to a hardcover original and scan the Rev. Thomas from that I would be happy to post it here.
MILLER, NORMAN L.
The "L." is possibly for "Little" as he is the nephew of Norman Little, above, and thus a Gen. 8 Samson and an Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren. Norman Miller (c 1832-c 1915) was the son of Charles, Norman, and William's younger sister Adaline Little (b. 1810). She married Hiram Miller in Avon, NY in 1830, according to the book with this photo (which also has a photo of Hiram and more biographical info but unfortunately no image of Adaline.) For the line beyond Adaline (Little) Miller, see Norman's writeup, above. See the other sections for those lineages. It's hard to be sure since all 5 have large beards, but Norman seems to look more like his father Hiram, whose picture is on page 125. The book with these images contains several pages of Norman's recollections of early Saginaw, where he and his family settled in 1836, having arrived by canoe. Adaline actually preceded her brothers and father in actually settling down in the wilds of Saginaw. Image and some info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 123-5, 127, 152, 160-2, 152, 153-5 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
The "L." is possibly for "Little" as he is the nephew of Norman Little, above, and thus a Gen. 8 Samson and an Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren. Norman Miller (c 1832-c 1915) was the son of Charles, Norman, and William's younger sister Adaline Little (b. 1810). She married Hiram Miller in Avon, NY in 1830, according to the book with this photo (which also has a photo of Hiram and more biographical info but unfortunately no image of Adaline.) For the line beyond Adaline (Little) Miller, see Norman's writeup, above. See the other sections for those lineages. It's hard to be sure since all 5 have large beards, but Norman seems to look more like his father Hiram, whose picture is on page 125. The book with these images contains several pages of Norman's recollections of early Saginaw, where he and his family settled in 1836, having arrived by canoe. Adaline actually preceded her brothers and father in actually settling down in the wilds of Saginaw. Image and some info from James Cooke Mills, History of Saginaw County Michigan: Historical, Commercial, Biographical (Saginaw: Seeman & Peters, 1918), pp. 123-5, 127, 152, 160-2, 152, 153-5 digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
MURDOCK, JESSE
His mother was the sister of Benjamin Ellis, above. The Hon. Jesse Murdock, b. 1806, actually appears in 10 places on this web site: Allerton, Alden-Mullins, Brewster, Cooke, Hopkins, Howland-Tilley, Samson, Soule, Standish, and Warren. Check those pages for those lines and see Benjamin Ellis's Howland-Tilley writeup for more on Jesse's maternal line. His Gen. 8 Samson connection runs as follows: Susanna (Ellis) Murdock, Joseph Ellis, Lucia (Bennett) Ellis, Thankful (Sprout) Bennett, Ebenezer Sprout, Elizabeth Samson, Henry of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 200, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
His mother was the sister of Benjamin Ellis, above. The Hon. Jesse Murdock, b. 1806, actually appears in 10 places on this web site: Allerton, Alden-Mullins, Brewster, Cooke, Hopkins, Howland-Tilley, Samson, Soule, Standish, and Warren. Check those pages for those lines and see Benjamin Ellis's Howland-Tilley writeup for more on Jesse's maternal line. His Gen. 8 Samson connection runs as follows: Susanna (Ellis) Murdock, Joseph Ellis, Lucia (Bennett) Ellis, Thankful (Sprout) Bennett, Ebenezer Sprout, Elizabeth Samson, Henry of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 200, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
NOYES, SARAH DEAN
Sarah (b 1864) studied to become a teacher, entering the class of 1881 at Bridgewater (MA) Normal School. She may have pursued that career before marrying Bernard A. Bigelow in Norwood, MA 11 years later. City directories could help trace her path. Sarah also had at least 4 siblings, including a brother who might have carried on the Noyes surname in New Bedford, MA, her home town. Sarah's lines include this probable Samson, a Standish, an Alden-Mullins, and probably a Warren but that last one will require a little more skulking to prove. (See those other sections for those lines.) This Samson line depends on finding better records to underscore the supposed parent-child link between Lydia Keene, wife of Shadrach Thomas, and Isaiah Keen the Revolutionary War pensioner who probably the same Isaiah in the Samson silver book. (That needs proving beyond vital records, too.) Sarah's Gen 11 Samson line begins with her mother and runs as follows: Marcia A. (Hill) Noyes, Melinda (Thomas) Hill, Lydia (Keen/Keene) Thomas, Isaiah Keen/Keene, Ruth (Bisbee) Keen/ Keene, Jonah Bisbee, Mary (Oldham) Bisbee, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image from a group photo held at the Clement Maxwell Library at Bridgewater State University, which digitized it for digitalcommonwealth.org.
Sarah (b 1864) studied to become a teacher, entering the class of 1881 at Bridgewater (MA) Normal School. She may have pursued that career before marrying Bernard A. Bigelow in Norwood, MA 11 years later. City directories could help trace her path. Sarah also had at least 4 siblings, including a brother who might have carried on the Noyes surname in New Bedford, MA, her home town. Sarah's lines include this probable Samson, a Standish, an Alden-Mullins, and probably a Warren but that last one will require a little more skulking to prove. (See those other sections for those lines.) This Samson line depends on finding better records to underscore the supposed parent-child link between Lydia Keene, wife of Shadrach Thomas, and Isaiah Keen the Revolutionary War pensioner who probably the same Isaiah in the Samson silver book. (That needs proving beyond vital records, too.) Sarah's Gen 11 Samson line begins with her mother and runs as follows: Marcia A. (Hill) Noyes, Melinda (Thomas) Hill, Lydia (Keen/Keene) Thomas, Isaiah Keen/Keene, Ruth (Bisbee) Keen/ Keene, Jonah Bisbee, Mary (Oldham) Bisbee, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image from a group photo held at the Clement Maxwell Library at Bridgewater State University, which digitized it for digitalcommonwealth.org.
PALMER, JEDUTHAN
First, let me apologize for the quality of this image. It's a digitization of a reprint of a daguerrotype probably made in the 1850s. A scan of a print version of this book would be appreciated if you find it anywhere. Jeduthan (1786-1860) was a Gen. 7 Samson and Doty through his mother, and the first clue is that her name was "Desire." Any time you have a female with that name, head for a Doty Silver Book because it seems each generation named one of the girls in honor of the three-times-married daughter of Pilgrim Edward Doty, mother of eleven. The Doty book, vol. 2, gets as far as his grandparents but tells you that the grandfather was a Samson descendant. That book is more complete by two generations, so Jeduthan himself is in the Samson Silver Book, vol. 2. His Samson line runs: Desire (Oldham) Palmer, Thomas Oldham, Thomas Oldham, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See the Doty section for that line. Image and info from L. Vernon Briggs, History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of the Shipbuilders, and Accounts of the Industries Upon its Tributaries, 1640 to 1872 (Boston: Coburn, 1889), p. 72, digitized by the Library of Congress.
First, let me apologize for the quality of this image. It's a digitization of a reprint of a daguerrotype probably made in the 1850s. A scan of a print version of this book would be appreciated if you find it anywhere. Jeduthan (1786-1860) was a Gen. 7 Samson and Doty through his mother, and the first clue is that her name was "Desire." Any time you have a female with that name, head for a Doty Silver Book because it seems each generation named one of the girls in honor of the three-times-married daughter of Pilgrim Edward Doty, mother of eleven. The Doty book, vol. 2, gets as far as his grandparents but tells you that the grandfather was a Samson descendant. That book is more complete by two generations, so Jeduthan himself is in the Samson Silver Book, vol. 2. His Samson line runs: Desire (Oldham) Palmer, Thomas Oldham, Thomas Oldham, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See the Doty section for that line. Image and info from L. Vernon Briggs, History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of the Shipbuilders, and Accounts of the Industries Upon its Tributaries, 1640 to 1872 (Boston: Coburn, 1889), p. 72, digitized by the Library of Congress.
PINEO, STEPHEN SEDGLEY
Since he was born in 1850 and this book was published in 1898, Stephen is no older than 48 in this picture. Supposedly the first Pineo in New England was Jacques, a Huguenot who arrived in CT in 1690. I don't know how much research, if any, was done at the European end. This Stephen is a Gen 8 descendant of Henry Samson (also a Standish and Alden-Mullins) and his father's birth and marriage are in the Samson silver book, Part 3. If you apply on this line you still need to prove Stephen's birth as their child, plus his parents' deaths, and from Stephen on down to yourself using government-issued birth, marriage, and death records showing full parent names. This family was among the New England planters who took the offer to acquire lands in Nova Scotia after the British exiled the Catholic Acadians and some stayed on during the American Revolution, so look for Pineo records in Canada. A retail & wholesale merchant according to the book with this image, Stephen S. Pineo's Samson line runs: David Pineo, David, Jonathan, Elizabeth (Samson) Pineo, David Samson, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See the Standish and Alden-Mullins sections for those lineages. Image and info from Biographical Review Volume XXIX, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, Maine (Boston: Biographical Review, 1898), pp. 374-7, digitized by the Allen Co (IN) Public Library.
Since he was born in 1850 and this book was published in 1898, Stephen is no older than 48 in this picture. Supposedly the first Pineo in New England was Jacques, a Huguenot who arrived in CT in 1690. I don't know how much research, if any, was done at the European end. This Stephen is a Gen 8 descendant of Henry Samson (also a Standish and Alden-Mullins) and his father's birth and marriage are in the Samson silver book, Part 3. If you apply on this line you still need to prove Stephen's birth as their child, plus his parents' deaths, and from Stephen on down to yourself using government-issued birth, marriage, and death records showing full parent names. This family was among the New England planters who took the offer to acquire lands in Nova Scotia after the British exiled the Catholic Acadians and some stayed on during the American Revolution, so look for Pineo records in Canada. A retail & wholesale merchant according to the book with this image, Stephen S. Pineo's Samson line runs: David Pineo, David, Jonathan, Elizabeth (Samson) Pineo, David Samson, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. See the Standish and Alden-Mullins sections for those lineages. Image and info from Biographical Review Volume XXIX, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, Maine (Boston: Biographical Review, 1898), pp. 374-7, digitized by the Allen Co (IN) Public Library.
POOL, OLIVE
The book with this photo has an interesting anecdote about the young Olive of Plymouth County (1768-1850) and how she came to marry the Rev. William Reed of Easton in nearby Bristol County. She was a Gen. 5 Samson descendant and her birth, marriage, 9 children, and 22 grandchildren are in the Samson book, Part 3. One son (Seth) became a seaman in Baltimore, MD and had a daughter who went to "Indian Territory" (probably today's OK) but the silver book did not specify which daughter, Charlotte or Mary L. Reed. Olive's Mayflower lines are all via her paternal grandmother, with the Samson as follows: Ruth (Fullerton) Pool/Poole, Ruth (Samson) Fullerton, Caleb Samson, Henry the pilgrim. The image here is said to have been from a daguerrotype made when she was older, and loaned to the author by the family. Daguerrotypes were in use in the 1840s so Olive would have been 70+ when this was made. The book also contains a description of the finery she and her husband wore when married, including his white wig and cocked hat. See the Alden-Mullins and Standish sections for those lineages. Image and some info from William L. Chaffin, History of the Town of Easton, Massachusetts (Cambridge: University Press, 1886), pp. 264-267, digitized by the Library of Congress.
The book with this photo has an interesting anecdote about the young Olive of Plymouth County (1768-1850) and how she came to marry the Rev. William Reed of Easton in nearby Bristol County. She was a Gen. 5 Samson descendant and her birth, marriage, 9 children, and 22 grandchildren are in the Samson book, Part 3. One son (Seth) became a seaman in Baltimore, MD and had a daughter who went to "Indian Territory" (probably today's OK) but the silver book did not specify which daughter, Charlotte or Mary L. Reed. Olive's Mayflower lines are all via her paternal grandmother, with the Samson as follows: Ruth (Fullerton) Pool/Poole, Ruth (Samson) Fullerton, Caleb Samson, Henry the pilgrim. The image here is said to have been from a daguerrotype made when she was older, and loaned to the author by the family. Daguerrotypes were in use in the 1840s so Olive would have been 70+ when this was made. The book also contains a description of the finery she and her husband wore when married, including his white wig and cocked hat. See the Alden-Mullins and Standish sections for those lineages. Image and some info from William L. Chaffin, History of the Town of Easton, Massachusetts (Cambridge: University Press, 1886), pp. 264-267, digitized by the Library of Congress.
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RICKETSON, ANNA & EMMA LOUISA
Daughters of Maria Louisa Sampson and sisters of Arthur & Walton, all below, they are Gen 9 Samsons + Standish, Alden-Mullins, & Chilton descendants. See their mother's writeup for details. Images from Anna & Walton Ricketson, eds., Daniel Ricketson: Autobiographic and Miscellaneous (New Bedford: Anthony, 1910), pp. 14, 18, digitized by the University of California Libraries. |
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RICKETSON, ARTHUR AND WALTON
Brothers of Anna & Emma Louisa, above, and sons of Maria Louisa Sampson, below, they are Gen. 9 Samsons + Standish, Alden-Mullins, & Chilton descendants. See their mother's writeup for details. Images from Anna & Walton Ricketson, eds., Daniel Ricketson: Autobiographic and Miscellaneous (New Bedford: Anthony, 1910), pp. 12, 16, digitized by the University of California Libraries. 
SAMPSON, AUGUSTUS N.
He was a member of the 19th century's "Greatest Generation" - the Union soldiers of the Civil War, the civilian support personnel (think Clara Barton inventing the Red Cross), and the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman's Relief Corps for half a century afterwards. Augustus (1839-1901) was a MA Post Commander of the GAR in 1873 and the picture from which this blurry scan was snipped shows him in full regalia. He was a Gen. 8 descendant of pilgrim Henry Samson and the Samson silver book gets to the birth of his father, George Robinson Sampson. The NEHGS vital records also cover this family quite well. Backing up from George all the way to Henry you will pick up on Augustus's many other pilgrim lines, including Alden-Mullins and Standish. (See those sections for those lines.) Augustus's Sampson line runs: George Robinson Sampson, Zephaniah, Joshua, Amos, Joshua, Caleb, and Henry Samson of the Mayflower. If the Samson silver book is correct, it was grandfather Zephaniah who added the "p" to the surname. Image from Bowdoin S. Parker, What One Grand Army Post has Accomplished: History of Edward W. Kinsley Post, No. 113, Department of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, Boston, Massachusetts (Norwood: Norwood Press, 1913), p. 44, digitized by the Library of Congress. |
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SAMPSON, CASSANDER CAREY
Son of Thomas Robie Sampson, below, the Rev. Sampson was a Generation 8 Samson descendant as well as a Cooke and Hopkins. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 600-601, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Son of Thomas Robie Sampson, below, the Rev. Sampson was a Generation 8 Samson descendant as well as a Cooke and Hopkins. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 600-601, digitized by the Library of Congress.
SAMPSON, LEONICE MARSTON
Someone gave a paper on Leonice to the Old Town (Taunton) Historical Society in 1897 and included this very nice picture. A close relation of Maria Louisa Sampson and her Ricketson children (all below) she was a Sampson (but is not a straight-line Samson as her father was a descendant of Henry's brother Arthur. Leonice was also a Brewster, Alden-Mullins, Warren, and Chilton descendant. (Check those sections for the lineages. Leonice was named for both parents, Leonice Holmes and Marston Sampson, and was born in Plymouth in 1811. According to the author her parents died young and she lived with relatives, but it looks like the mother died young and the father remarried. She married judge Joseph W. Moulton of NY in RI in 1833 and they became world travelers. She had at least one child, a daughter, who had a child, so there are descendants to be found. Leonice may have had siblings or half-siblings, too, and definitely had cousins. Here is her Gen 8 Samson line, beginning with her father: Marston Sampson, Hannah (Cooper) Sampson, Hannah (Sampson) Cooper, Ebenezer Sampson, David, Caleb, and Henry of the Mayflower. Image and info from John Ordronaux, Memoir of Leonice Marston Sampson Moulton, Read at the Request of the Old Colony Historical Society at Taunton, Mass., July 2, 1897 (Taunton: C Hack & Son, 1898), frontispiece, 8, 15, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Someone gave a paper on Leonice to the Old Town (Taunton) Historical Society in 1897 and included this very nice picture. A close relation of Maria Louisa Sampson and her Ricketson children (all below) she was a Sampson (but is not a straight-line Samson as her father was a descendant of Henry's brother Arthur. Leonice was also a Brewster, Alden-Mullins, Warren, and Chilton descendant. (Check those sections for the lineages. Leonice was named for both parents, Leonice Holmes and Marston Sampson, and was born in Plymouth in 1811. According to the author her parents died young and she lived with relatives, but it looks like the mother died young and the father remarried. She married judge Joseph W. Moulton of NY in RI in 1833 and they became world travelers. She had at least one child, a daughter, who had a child, so there are descendants to be found. Leonice may have had siblings or half-siblings, too, and definitely had cousins. Here is her Gen 8 Samson line, beginning with her father: Marston Sampson, Hannah (Cooper) Sampson, Hannah (Sampson) Cooper, Ebenezer Sampson, David, Caleb, and Henry of the Mayflower. Image and info from John Ordronaux, Memoir of Leonice Marston Sampson Moulton, Read at the Request of the Old Colony Historical Society at Taunton, Mass., July 2, 1897 (Taunton: C Hack & Son, 1898), frontispiece, 8, 15, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
SAMPSON, MARIA LOUISA
Louisa Ricketson (b 1813), as she was known in adult life in New Bedford, MA, was not a Mayflower Samson descendant via her father, who was a descendant of Pilgrim Henry's possible cousin Abraham, but via her paternal grandmother, Hannah Cooper. Through the same grandmother she was also a Chilton, Alden-Mullins, Standish, and possible Warren. From Maria Louisa (Sampson) Ricketson the Gen 8 Samson line runs: Zabdiel Sampson, Hannah (Cooper) Sampson, Hannah (Sampson) Cooper, Ebenezer Sampson, David, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Henry Samson silver book Part 3 gets as far as the marriage of her parents and the VRs on the NEHGS site have her birth. Her proposed Warren lineage has been declared by me as worthy of a writeup in the Mystery/Fun Photos section. Maybe you can solve that puzzle. The images here are from books published by two of her children. One is an oil by a W. A. Wall done at age 20 (1833), thus the Empire neckline that I had to cut off in the interest of space and the narrow beehive hairdo. The other is a crayon portrait by Charles Martin done 17 years later (ca 1850), with the Princess Leia-like hairdo and higher neckline indicating her matronly status. The poses in both images are reminiscent of that time period, with the tilted head, the wide-eyed look, and the bow mouth. However, both show us clearly that she was probably slender, and definitely had dark hair and eyes. Three of her children, Arthur, Walton, and Anna Ricketson take after their non-Mayflower father, Daniel, but daughter Emma Louisa resembles her mother. Image on the left from Anna & Walton Ricketson, eds., Daniel Ricketson and his Friends: Letters, Poems, Sketches, Etc. (Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1902), p. 360, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and on the right from Anna & Walton Ricketson, eds., Daniel Ricketson: Autobiographic and Miscellaneous (New Bedford: Anthony, 1910), p. 10, digitized by the University of California Libraries. |
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Sampson, Thomas B.
Generation 6 Samson descendant Thomas was a War of 1812 US Navy veteran and later a sea captain. He was also son of a mariner and onetime Barbary Coast prisoner, Capt. Chapin Sampson of Boston, himself son of a sea captain, and wife Sarah Smith. His entire lineage is in the Henry Samson Silver Book, which quotes at some length from the county history from which this image comes. Thomas was born in Waldoboro, ME in 1797 and died in or near Gardiner, ME in 1873 so this portrait is presumably of him in his early 70s. The Samson Silver Book reveals that Capt. Chapin Sampson was a descendant of the Alden-Mullins, Standish, and Warren families. These lines are from the marriages of Capt. Chapin's father Chapin/Chaffin Samson to Betty Clift, daughter of Judith (Church) Clift, a Warren; and the marriage of Caleb Samson (son of pilgrim Henry), to Mercy Standish, a granddaughter of John & Priscilla (Mullins) Alden and Myles Standish. Image from Kingsbury & Deyo, Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine (NY: H. W. Blake, 1892), pp. 672, 678, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
SAMPSON, THOMAS ROBIE
This Sampson is himself in the Henry Samson Silver Book, Part 3, as Generation 7, and was a Maine merchant, like his father, great grandfather, and great great grandfather. (Grandfather Micah was the rebel of the family, apparently, as he was a tinsmith.) The Samson book also reveals Thomas to be a Cooke and Hopkins descendant via great-great grandfather Benjamin Samson. (See his writeups in those sections for the lineages.) Thomas's Samson line is: John, Micah, Micah/Michael, Benjamin, Stephen, Henry of the Mayflower. The Rev. Cassander Cary Sampson, above, is his son via a second wife, Harriet Cary. One of the sources for Thomas, his parents, and grandparents cited is the book from which this photo was taken, along with a number of other published sources and some vital records. In this volume the references are embedded in the text rather than by number at the end of the writeup, so you will have to read the whole thing to find what you are looking for. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 598-600, digitized by the Library of Congress.
This Sampson is himself in the Henry Samson Silver Book, Part 3, as Generation 7, and was a Maine merchant, like his father, great grandfather, and great great grandfather. (Grandfather Micah was the rebel of the family, apparently, as he was a tinsmith.) The Samson book also reveals Thomas to be a Cooke and Hopkins descendant via great-great grandfather Benjamin Samson. (See his writeups in those sections for the lineages.) Thomas's Samson line is: John, Micah, Micah/Michael, Benjamin, Stephen, Henry of the Mayflower. The Rev. Cassander Cary Sampson, above, is his son via a second wife, Harriet Cary. One of the sources for Thomas, his parents, and grandparents cited is the book from which this photo was taken, along with a number of other published sources and some vital records. In this volume the references are embedded in the text rather than by number at the end of the writeup, so you will have to read the whole thing to find what you are looking for. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 598-600, digitized by the Library of Congress.
SIBLEY, FREDERIC BAKER
There is a lot of info on the Sibley family out there, as the original Mr. Sibley (Solomon) was a very prominent juror in territorial days. It was his wife who was the Mayflower descendant, though. This image of son Frederic (1824-1907), a lawyer-fur trader-army contractor-quarry operator-bank director, is from a four-volume history of Detroit that was digitized with poor attention to how the pictures would come out. Frederic would appreciate you sharing if you have a less sinister photo of him that is in the public domain. He did not marry and presumably left no descendants so there is no better picture of a child or grandchild I can use. Frederic's Gen 7 Samson line runs: Sarah Whipple (Sproat) Sibley, Ebenezer Sproat, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Elizabeth (Samson) Sproat, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. His birth is listed in the Henry Samson silver book Part 2, along with that of his siblings, and it mentions a Howland-Tilley line. See that section on this website for that lineage. Image and some info from Paul Leake, History of Detroit, Chronicle of its Progress, its Industries, its Institutions and the People of the Fair City of the Straits, Vol. II (Chicago: Lewis, 1912), pp. 439-42, digitized by the University of Michigan.
There is a lot of info on the Sibley family out there, as the original Mr. Sibley (Solomon) was a very prominent juror in territorial days. It was his wife who was the Mayflower descendant, though. This image of son Frederic (1824-1907), a lawyer-fur trader-army contractor-quarry operator-bank director, is from a four-volume history of Detroit that was digitized with poor attention to how the pictures would come out. Frederic would appreciate you sharing if you have a less sinister photo of him that is in the public domain. He did not marry and presumably left no descendants so there is no better picture of a child or grandchild I can use. Frederic's Gen 7 Samson line runs: Sarah Whipple (Sproat) Sibley, Ebenezer Sproat, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Elizabeth (Samson) Sproat, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. His birth is listed in the Henry Samson silver book Part 2, along with that of his siblings, and it mentions a Howland-Tilley line. See that section on this website for that lineage. Image and some info from Paul Leake, History of Detroit, Chronicle of its Progress, its Industries, its Institutions and the People of the Fair City of the Straits, Vol. II (Chicago: Lewis, 1912), pp. 439-42, digitized by the University of Michigan.
SIBLEY, HENRY HASTINGS
There are plenty of images of Henry (1811-1891) on the internet, including a number with the Minnesota Historical Society due to his prominence as the first governor of the MN Territory and a US Representative from the MN Territory and WI Territory. He served in the Civil War and there is one image of him in uniform. He had numerous children, including one daughter with a Dakota woman prior to his marriage. She reportedly died in childbirth at age 20 but anyone knows of a public-domain photograph of her or a descendant, please let me know so I can include her/them. See brother Frederic's writeup, above, for Henry's Gen. 7 Samson lineage and visit the Howland-Tilley section for that lineage. This image is from wikipedia, which simply lists it as being in the public domain with no source given.
There are plenty of images of Henry (1811-1891) on the internet, including a number with the Minnesota Historical Society due to his prominence as the first governor of the MN Territory and a US Representative from the MN Territory and WI Territory. He served in the Civil War and there is one image of him in uniform. He had numerous children, including one daughter with a Dakota woman prior to his marriage. She reportedly died in childbirth at age 20 but anyone knows of a public-domain photograph of her or a descendant, please let me know so I can include her/them. See brother Frederic's writeup, above, for Henry's Gen. 7 Samson lineage and visit the Howland-Tilley section for that lineage. This image is from wikipedia, which simply lists it as being in the public domain with no source given.
SOULE, EUGENE T.
Husband of first, Annie May Winsor (1856-1898, below), and second, Mary E. (Dolan) Cavanagh, b. East Boston c. 1862), Eugene (b c 1850, Duxbury, MA) had at least one child because a descendant donated their photos, probably taken around their 1881 wedding, to the Massachusetts Memories Roadshow, which archives donated images at the U of Mass Boston's JP Healey Library. It in turn allows Digital Commonwealth to share them for educational purposes (such as this website.) Eugene's age on their 10 April 1881 marriage record was 30 and on his 10 Oct 1909 record, 59. If you are a descendant of both Eugene and Annie, check out Annie's writeup for her Samson, Standish, Warren, Alden-Mullins, and Soule lines, which are in addition to Eugene's double Samson, Soule, Standish, and Alden-Mullins lines. Eugene's Samson lines both begin with his mother. Gen. 8 runs as follows: Caroline (Sampson) Soule, Eden Sprague Sampson, Elijah, Amos, Joshua, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. HIs Gen 9 line runs: Caroline (Sampson) Soule, Eden Sprague Sampson, Hannah (Sprague) Samson, Sarah (Oldham) Sprague, Caleb Oldham, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson again.
Husband of first, Annie May Winsor (1856-1898, below), and second, Mary E. (Dolan) Cavanagh, b. East Boston c. 1862), Eugene (b c 1850, Duxbury, MA) had at least one child because a descendant donated their photos, probably taken around their 1881 wedding, to the Massachusetts Memories Roadshow, which archives donated images at the U of Mass Boston's JP Healey Library. It in turn allows Digital Commonwealth to share them for educational purposes (such as this website.) Eugene's age on their 10 April 1881 marriage record was 30 and on his 10 Oct 1909 record, 59. If you are a descendant of both Eugene and Annie, check out Annie's writeup for her Samson, Standish, Warren, Alden-Mullins, and Soule lines, which are in addition to Eugene's double Samson, Soule, Standish, and Alden-Mullins lines. Eugene's Samson lines both begin with his mother. Gen. 8 runs as follows: Caroline (Sampson) Soule, Eden Sprague Sampson, Elijah, Amos, Joshua, Caleb, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. HIs Gen 9 line runs: Caroline (Sampson) Soule, Eden Sprague Sampson, Hannah (Sprague) Samson, Sarah (Oldham) Sprague, Caleb Oldham, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson again.
Soule, Lawrence Porter
A Generation 7 descendant of George Soule, Lawrence was a descendant of 7 other Mayflower families, including Henry Samson twice, both in Generation 7. All of his Pilgrim ancestors are on his father's side. Lawrence was born 1831 in Duxbury to Stephen and Lydia (Pierce) Soule and was the grandson of William and Priscilla (Sampson) Soule, both of whom are listed as Generation 5 Samson descendants in Silver Books, volume 20, parts 1 & 3. Other Mayflower ancestors include Bradford (Gen 8), Alden-Mullins (Gens. 8-9), and Warren & Brewster (Gen 9). All of these lineages are detailed, albeit confusingly in the following book. Image and info from Charles Edwin Hurd, The New England Library of Genealogy and Personal History (Boston: New England Historical Publishing Co., 1902), pp. 666-668, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
TILDEN, CATHARINE HITCHCOCK
The book with this photo states that Catharine (b MI 1844) was descended from 6 Mayflower passengers. A quick look on the NEHGS, where their partnership with the GSMD has resulted in a searchable database of Gen 5 descendants, turned up this Henry Samson line. If you are a descendant of this family (look for her as the wife of Dr. Elroy M. Avery and living in Cleveland, OH) there is additional biographical info in the writeup accompanying this image and the DAR's GRS database does have her (member #135) and several of her patriot ancestors (Gad Hitchcock Jr., Col. John Bailey, and Samuel Tilden, her Samson ancestor.) To join the Mayflower Society you will have to gather birth, marriage and death certificates and possibly probate records, wills, military pensions, and land records to link each generation beyond the birth of Calvin Tilden, Samuel's son. Catharine's Gen 8 Samson line is, in theory: Junius Tilden, Calvin, Samuel, Desire (Oldham) Tilden, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image and info from Frances E. Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds., American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol. I, rev. ed. (NY: Mast, Crowell, & Kirkpatrick, 1897), p. 137, provided by the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection to the Internet Archive.
The book with this photo states that Catharine (b MI 1844) was descended from 6 Mayflower passengers. A quick look on the NEHGS, where their partnership with the GSMD has resulted in a searchable database of Gen 5 descendants, turned up this Henry Samson line. If you are a descendant of this family (look for her as the wife of Dr. Elroy M. Avery and living in Cleveland, OH) there is additional biographical info in the writeup accompanying this image and the DAR's GRS database does have her (member #135) and several of her patriot ancestors (Gad Hitchcock Jr., Col. John Bailey, and Samuel Tilden, her Samson ancestor.) To join the Mayflower Society you will have to gather birth, marriage and death certificates and possibly probate records, wills, military pensions, and land records to link each generation beyond the birth of Calvin Tilden, Samuel's son. Catharine's Gen 8 Samson line is, in theory: Junius Tilden, Calvin, Samuel, Desire (Oldham) Tilden, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image and info from Frances E. Willard & Mary A. Livermore, eds., American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol. I, rev. ed. (NY: Mast, Crowell, & Kirkpatrick, 1897), p. 137, provided by the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection to the Internet Archive.
TRIPP, MARIE
This identification depends on me having correctly identified Marie as the daughter of William G., born in Berkley, MA, enumerated there in 1900 with mother Sadie in her Macomber grandparents' household (her father having died when she was 1), and then her attending high school in nearby Taunton. That girl had the middle name Frances but the yearbook gave the Marie to your left no middle initial. The non-indexed, non-searchable digitized yearbook was not helpful beyond a name and photo. That, and the Samson book Part 2 has a question mark next to Thankful Norcutt as the daughter of Benjamin and Thankful Briggs (though Thankful's 1844 Berkley marriage record does give her father as Benjamin.) Assuming all this holds up, Marie was a likely Gen 10 Samson as follows: Sadie E. (Macomber) Tripp, Horace Nelson Macomber, Thankful (Norcutt) Macomber, Benjamin Norcutt, Zenas, John, Elizabeth (Bonney) Norcutt, Dorcas (Samson) Bonney, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image from Eloise B. Hubbard, ed., The Journal (Taunton: Taunton High School, 1916), p. 32, digitized on the Internet Archive.
This identification depends on me having correctly identified Marie as the daughter of William G., born in Berkley, MA, enumerated there in 1900 with mother Sadie in her Macomber grandparents' household (her father having died when she was 1), and then her attending high school in nearby Taunton. That girl had the middle name Frances but the yearbook gave the Marie to your left no middle initial. The non-indexed, non-searchable digitized yearbook was not helpful beyond a name and photo. That, and the Samson book Part 2 has a question mark next to Thankful Norcutt as the daughter of Benjamin and Thankful Briggs (though Thankful's 1844 Berkley marriage record does give her father as Benjamin.) Assuming all this holds up, Marie was a likely Gen 10 Samson as follows: Sadie E. (Macomber) Tripp, Horace Nelson Macomber, Thankful (Norcutt) Macomber, Benjamin Norcutt, Zenas, John, Elizabeth (Bonney) Norcutt, Dorcas (Samson) Bonney, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Image from Eloise B. Hubbard, ed., The Journal (Taunton: Taunton High School, 1916), p. 32, digitized on the Internet Archive.
VEAZIE, JONES P.
Son of Gen. Samuel Veazie (1787-1868), below, by his first wife Susan Walker (1792-1852) of Topsham, ME, Jones P. Veazie (1811-1875) was likely named for his paternal grandmother, Rachel Jones of Bangor (1747-1797) or John's stepmother, Sarah (Jones) Veazie. Rachel married an Isaac Jones, so either way, he was named for the Jones Family. Jones extended his family's enterprises into Canada and according to the compilers of the book with this lineage, was a financial backer of abolitionist activities. Jones married twice, and had three children by each wife. (One of his wives was a Winslow and since numerous Winslows settled in Canada, that line is worth exploring. Jones' brother John W. married a Bartlett, many of whom are Warren descendants.) See Samuel's writeup for Jones's Gen 7 Samson lineage and see the Cooke and Hopkins sections for those lines. Image and info from History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase, 1882), pp. 652, 787, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Son of Gen. Samuel Veazie (1787-1868), below, by his first wife Susan Walker (1792-1852) of Topsham, ME, Jones P. Veazie (1811-1875) was likely named for his paternal grandmother, Rachel Jones of Bangor (1747-1797) or John's stepmother, Sarah (Jones) Veazie. Rachel married an Isaac Jones, so either way, he was named for the Jones Family. Jones extended his family's enterprises into Canada and according to the compilers of the book with this lineage, was a financial backer of abolitionist activities. Jones married twice, and had three children by each wife. (One of his wives was a Winslow and since numerous Winslows settled in Canada, that line is worth exploring. Jones' brother John W. married a Bartlett, many of whom are Warren descendants.) See Samuel's writeup for Jones's Gen 7 Samson lineage and see the Cooke and Hopkins sections for those lines. Image and info from History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase, 1882), pp. 652, 787, digitized by the Library of Congress.
VEAZIE, SAMUEL
Namesake of the town of Veazie, Maine, he was called "General Veazie" because of his militia service commencing with the War of 1812, and his eventual advancement to the position. His 1787 birth as a Gen. 6 Samson is in the Samson silver book Part 3, as is his marriage and the birth of his three children (including son Jones P. Veazie, above) and their marriages. Lucky you if you have a lineage that gets to births and marriages 1800-1840 in a silver book. Samuel died in Bangor in 1868 but given his military service, merchant dealings, and resulting prominence in governance he probably left good documentation and more images. If you are a descendant, consider honoring him by joining the U.S. Daughters of 1812 or the General Society of the War of 1812 if you are a male. The Daughters' database shows that no one has joined on this line - in fact comparatively few New England ancestors are so noted. The familysearch index of 1812 pension application files does show that Samuel's widow (not the mother of his children) got a pension for his service so there is likely useful genealogical information at the National Archives on him (and her, Mrs. Mary C. Blanchard.) The book names 3 children who lived to adulthood & married, 2 sons and a daughter, and notes that he died intestate and his estate was administered by grandsons Alfred Veazie and Charles V. Lord. See Samuel's Cooke and Hopkins writeups for those lineages, but his Gen 6 Samson line runs: John Veazie, Deborah (Samson) Veazie, Benjamin Samson, Stephen, Henry of the Mayflower. Image and info from History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase, 1882), pp. 32, 774, 777, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Namesake of the town of Veazie, Maine, he was called "General Veazie" because of his militia service commencing with the War of 1812, and his eventual advancement to the position. His 1787 birth as a Gen. 6 Samson is in the Samson silver book Part 3, as is his marriage and the birth of his three children (including son Jones P. Veazie, above) and their marriages. Lucky you if you have a lineage that gets to births and marriages 1800-1840 in a silver book. Samuel died in Bangor in 1868 but given his military service, merchant dealings, and resulting prominence in governance he probably left good documentation and more images. If you are a descendant, consider honoring him by joining the U.S. Daughters of 1812 or the General Society of the War of 1812 if you are a male. The Daughters' database shows that no one has joined on this line - in fact comparatively few New England ancestors are so noted. The familysearch index of 1812 pension application files does show that Samuel's widow (not the mother of his children) got a pension for his service so there is likely useful genealogical information at the National Archives on him (and her, Mrs. Mary C. Blanchard.) The book names 3 children who lived to adulthood & married, 2 sons and a daughter, and notes that he died intestate and his estate was administered by grandsons Alfred Veazie and Charles V. Lord. See Samuel's Cooke and Hopkins writeups for those lineages, but his Gen 6 Samson line runs: John Veazie, Deborah (Samson) Veazie, Benjamin Samson, Stephen, Henry of the Mayflower. Image and info from History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase, 1882), pp. 32, 774, 777, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Washburn, Nathan
Nathan is a Generation 9 Samson descendant and a Generation 10 Cooke & Rogers descendant. The Samson Silver Book, part 2, takes his line the farthest, to the marriage of his grandparents Cyrus Washburn and Betsey Bump, Generation 7 (Cyrus.) (For Bumpus/Bump/Bumpas/Bompasse genealogy, see http://bumpusgenealogy.org/, by Paul and Stephen Bumpus.) Nathan's Samson line is as follows: Bradford Sumner Washburn, Cyrus, Luther, Amos, Elizabeth (Richmond) Washburn, Anna (Sprout) Richmond, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson the Pilgrim.
On his mother's side, his is a Generation 10 Warren descendant and Generation 9 but things get murky around Generations 5 & 6 as it is not clear which Holmes of Plymouth that Elizabeth Sturtevant (Harlow) Washburn descended from. Nathan may thus have several more Pilgrim lines -- or not, as this book, like most family/area genealogies, does have its errors.
Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 190, digitized by the Boston Public Library.Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 190, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
On his mother's side, his is a Generation 10 Warren descendant and Generation 9 but things get murky around Generations 5 & 6 as it is not clear which Holmes of Plymouth that Elizabeth Sturtevant (Harlow) Washburn descended from. Nathan may thus have several more Pilgrim lines -- or not, as this book, like most family/area genealogies, does have its errors.
Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 190, digitized by the Boston Public Library.Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 190, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
WATERMAN - ARTHUR BARTLETT & CHESTER WALDO
These brothers are presented with my usual caution that proper identification depends on the caption writer being correct. These were taken from a class photo, circa 1910, donated by the same person who supplied the Jabez Thompson family photo. In this one there is one more child than he gave names for and one boy's name came with a girl's face. However, he started left to right, the far left being Chester Waterman & 2 boys over was a similar looking face and the name Arthur Waterman. Vital records and the 1910 census showed (left to right) Arthur (b 1895) and Chester (b 1897) to be brothers. They turned out to be Samsons, Hopkinses, Allertons, Cookes, Aldens, Mullinses, Bradfords, Warrens, Soules, and Standishes, in some case more than once, and both paternal grandparents were Mayflower descendants. Here is their Gen 11 Samson line, beginning with their father: Bradford B[artlett] Waterman, Jonathan B., Clara (Bourne) Waterman, Newcomb Bourne Jr., Newcomb, Abigail (Newcomb) Bourne, Mercy (Oldham) Newcomb, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Their father's birth record gives his original name as "Bartlett Bradford Waterman." Also, the Samson book admits no vital record evidence of Newcomb Bourne Jr. being the son of Newcomb, but the father headed a household of 12 in 1790 then (unfortunately) moved to the wilds of Vermont around 1802, where at least there is a death record for his wife Abigail. She was allegedly surnamed Cushman when they wed but there is no evidence of that being a maiden name or a widow's surname - or of her being named Cushman at all. (Do you like a challenge?) Images from "A Class Photo, Halifax Public School," on Digital Commonwealth.
These brothers are presented with my usual caution that proper identification depends on the caption writer being correct. These were taken from a class photo, circa 1910, donated by the same person who supplied the Jabez Thompson family photo. In this one there is one more child than he gave names for and one boy's name came with a girl's face. However, he started left to right, the far left being Chester Waterman & 2 boys over was a similar looking face and the name Arthur Waterman. Vital records and the 1910 census showed (left to right) Arthur (b 1895) and Chester (b 1897) to be brothers. They turned out to be Samsons, Hopkinses, Allertons, Cookes, Aldens, Mullinses, Bradfords, Warrens, Soules, and Standishes, in some case more than once, and both paternal grandparents were Mayflower descendants. Here is their Gen 11 Samson line, beginning with their father: Bradford B[artlett] Waterman, Jonathan B., Clara (Bourne) Waterman, Newcomb Bourne Jr., Newcomb, Abigail (Newcomb) Bourne, Mercy (Oldham) Newcomb, Mercy (Sprout) Oldham, Elizabeth (Samson) Sprout, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. Their father's birth record gives his original name as "Bartlett Bradford Waterman." Also, the Samson book admits no vital record evidence of Newcomb Bourne Jr. being the son of Newcomb, but the father headed a household of 12 in 1790 then (unfortunately) moved to the wilds of Vermont around 1802, where at least there is a death record for his wife Abigail. She was allegedly surnamed Cushman when they wed but there is no evidence of that being a maiden name or a widow's surname - or of her being named Cushman at all. (Do you like a challenge?) Images from "A Class Photo, Halifax Public School," on Digital Commonwealth.
WATERMAN, CHESTER WALDO (See Arthur Bartlett Waterman, above.)
WINSOR, ANNIE MAY
This picture of Annie May Winsor (1856-1898), a Samson, Warren, Standish and double Soule & Alden-Mullins descendant, comes to us courtesy of the Massachusetts Memories Roadshow, which archives donated images at the U of Mass Boston's JP Healey Library, which in turn allows Digital Commonwealth to share them for educational purposes (such as this website.) There is another photo of a Mary "Polly" Winsor, supposedly Annie's sister, on the same site and from the same donor. However, without a birth or death date and no knowledge if there was a marriage I cannot identify her - in fact I find no evidence that Annie had a sister named Mary or Polly. The garb in the photo looks like something from an earlier generation and Annie's father (who married three times) was not the line carrier anyway. If Polly is ever positively identified and does have Mayflower ancestry I will post her image as well. Annie caught my eye because she married a Soule - Eugene T. Soule of Duxbury, MA (above) - as his first wife in 1881. Annie's Gen 8 Samson line begins with her mother (whose marriage to her father Lorenzo D. Winsor is in the Samson silver book), as follows: Abigail S. (Chandler) Winsor, James Chandler, Rhoda (Blackmore/Blackmer) Chandler, Rebecca (Samson) Blackmore/Blackmer, Penelope (Samson) Samson, James, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson book has an asterisk next to Rhoda's marriage to Thomas Chandler because a family history mixed him up with a different man by the same name but unless disproven some day this line is apparently accepted by the GSMD. See the Soule, Warren, Standish, and Alden-Mullins sections for those lines and see \Eugene T. Soule, above, for more pilgrim lines.
This picture of Annie May Winsor (1856-1898), a Samson, Warren, Standish and double Soule & Alden-Mullins descendant, comes to us courtesy of the Massachusetts Memories Roadshow, which archives donated images at the U of Mass Boston's JP Healey Library, which in turn allows Digital Commonwealth to share them for educational purposes (such as this website.) There is another photo of a Mary "Polly" Winsor, supposedly Annie's sister, on the same site and from the same donor. However, without a birth or death date and no knowledge if there was a marriage I cannot identify her - in fact I find no evidence that Annie had a sister named Mary or Polly. The garb in the photo looks like something from an earlier generation and Annie's father (who married three times) was not the line carrier anyway. If Polly is ever positively identified and does have Mayflower ancestry I will post her image as well. Annie caught my eye because she married a Soule - Eugene T. Soule of Duxbury, MA (above) - as his first wife in 1881. Annie's Gen 8 Samson line begins with her mother (whose marriage to her father Lorenzo D. Winsor is in the Samson silver book), as follows: Abigail S. (Chandler) Winsor, James Chandler, Rhoda (Blackmore/Blackmer) Chandler, Rebecca (Samson) Blackmore/Blackmer, Penelope (Samson) Samson, James, Henry Samson of the Mayflower. The Samson book has an asterisk next to Rhoda's marriage to Thomas Chandler because a family history mixed him up with a different man by the same name but unless disproven some day this line is apparently accepted by the GSMD. See the Soule, Warren, Standish, and Alden-Mullins sections for those lines and see \Eugene T. Soule, above, for more pilgrim lines.
