Henry Samson
Henry Samson (c. 1603 – 1685) was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. Samson was baptized in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England on 15 January 1603/04. His parents were James Samson and Martha (Cooper) Samson.
When he was sixteen, Henry Samson sailed on the Mayflower with his aunt and uncle Ann (Cooper) Tilley and Edward Tilley and a cousin, Humility Cooper. The Tilleys died in the winter of 1620-21. Samson and Cooper were cared for by other families, but which ones are not known.
Samson was active in Plymouth Colony.[1] He received land grants and volunteered for the Pequot War of 1637.[2] He also did jury duty.[3] He married Anne Plummer on 6 February 1635/6 in Plymouth. They had nine children between about 1638 and about 1654. He died on 3 January 1685. His wife died before him. Both were buried in Cole's Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth.[4]
Henry Samson Media
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882). This painting is in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Coat of Arms of Henry Samson
References
- ↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 347, 362
- ↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 413
- ↑ Sampson, Lilla Briggs, The Sampson Family, (Baltimore, MD.: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1914)
- ↑ Memorial for Henry and Ann Samson [1]