On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:03:35 -0400 Susan Johanson <scjohanson@earthlink.net> writes: > As for > Esther Nash being a wife, The following is what the George Soule's > four > generation pink book says: > snip < > My question is this-- Were there two different Esther ---Sampsons, > one > who married Abraham and one who married his son Samuel Sampson? > Was > one Esther Nash who married Abraham Sampson and one Esther unknown > who > married Samuel Sampson? Susan - I have not seen Esther given as the first name of one of Abraham Sampson's wives. The Wakefield article does not give a first name for either of Abraham's wives. One deed quoted there involved "land which I did receive with the daughter of Lt. Samuel Nash, mother of aforesaid Samuel" (Plymouth Colony Land Records 5:178) which is how the name of Abraham's first father-in-law is known. Aside from that Wakefield did not identify the first wife, and he said that the second had not been identified at all. If a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, reknowned for the superb quality of his southeastern MA research, could not give a first name to either wife I don't expect that I can either <grin>. Torrey's "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" does not give a surname for Samuel Sampson's wife Esther, and gives no first name for either of Abraham's wives. Wakefield's article gives [Delano?] as a possible surname for Esther, wife of Samuel. I don't know the origin of that suggestion - perhaps it is from the Barclay article which I have not seen. Dale H. Cook, Chief Engineer, WWWR Roanoke VA, WCQV Moneta VA, WKBA WZZI Vinton VA, WKPA WLNI WLVA WZZU Lynchburg VA