On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:14:12 -0400 Bruce Bardes <bpbgene@fuse.net> writes: > I think that her parents > were Richard WEST/WASTE and Mary > SAMSON/ SAMPSON. There was such a marriage 26 Oct 1693 in Duxbury, > according to Duxbury VRs, cited in IGI ... Bruce - The entry in Duxbury VR, p. 327, reads: "WASTE (see West), Richard and Mary Samson, Oct. 26, 1693.* P.C.R." The asterisk indicates that there is no marriage intention on record, and "P.C.R." indicates that the marriage record comes from Plymouth County records, not Duxbury Town records. > In meteorological terms, the ancestry of Richard WEST is heavy > overcast. The Pedigree Resource > File has several entries that list his parents as Francis (John) > WEST and Susannah SOULE; Richard was > born in 1663 in N. Kingston, RI. Did Susannah descend from George > SOULE? And who were Francis WEST's > parents? Robert S. Wakefield, in "The Daughters of Abraham(1) Sampson (born 1614?) of Duxbury MA" (TAG, v. 63, pp. 207-210), mentioned the North Kingston RI ascription, but noted that the Plymouth County marriage record did not indicate that Richard was from out-of-town and that there was a West family in Duxbury at the time. This was the family of Francis West (see "Francis West of Duxbury, Mass., and Some of His Descendants" by Edward E. Cornwall, NEHGR, v. 60, pp. 142-151). The Cornwall article does not list a Richard of the right age however, but notes that a son of that name had been ascribed to Francis "it would seem without good reason" (and a son Richard is not listed by Francis' great-grandson Judge Zebulon West). > What is pea soup fog is the ancestry of Mary SAMSON. I'd guess > that she was born about 1670, but > to whom, and where? Is there any evidence to show that she was > descended from either Abraham Sampson > or Henry Samson? In the aforementioned article Wakefield assigned this Mary as probably the last child of Abraham by his second wife, since her birth before 1676 seems too early for one of Abraham's sons, it does not seem possible for her to be a widow of one of those sons, and there is no place for her in Henry Samson's family. I don't know if this helps - these are the only references that come to my hand, and I've done no research on Richard or Mary. Dale H. Cook, Chief Engineer, WWWR Roanoke VA, WCQV Moneta VA, WKBA WZZI Vinton VA, WKPA WLNI WLVA WZZU Lynchburg VA