Maj. Thomas Sampson and Mary Duff

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Husband Maj. Thomas Sampson ^{1 2}

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         Father: John Sampson (      -1800) 3
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Wife Mary Duff ²

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1 M John Sampson ²

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           Born: 20 Apr 1785 2
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         Spouse: Jane Dampster (      -      ) 2

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2 M James Sampson ²

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3 M Alexander Sampson ²

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4 M Thomas Sampson ²

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5 M William Sampson ²

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6 M David Sampson ²

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7 F Mary Sampson ²

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8 F Margaret Sampson ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Stewart Thompson (      -Abt 1850) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Thomas Sampson

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He was a soldier in the American army in the War for Independence, gaining the rank of major. In his youth he and his brother, Joseph, had wandered from the family home into the woods surrounding, and were surprised and pursued by two Indians. The savage following Thomas Sampson stumbled over a projecting root, and the lad regained his home in safety; his brother, however, was taken captive and carried to the Indian camp, where other prisoners were held. All of the captives met cruel deaths after torture at the hands of the aborigines with the exception of two youths, one of them Joseph Sampson, and these were carried into Canada and sold. News of the boy's whereabouts afterward came to his parents, and his father journeyed to Canada, recovered his son and returned with him to the family home.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 564.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1496.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1495.