Joseph Sampson and Mary Patmore

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Husband Joseph Sampson ¹

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           Born: 1768 1
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         Father: John Sampson (      -1800) 1
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   Other Spouse: Eliza McClelland (      -      ) 1 - 1790 1

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Wife Mary Patmore ¹

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Sampson

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In his youth he and his brother, Thomas, had wandered from the family home into the woods surrounding, and were surprised and pursued by two Indians. The one following Thomas Sampson stumbled over a projecting root, and the lad regained his home in safety. Joseph, 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, where a loving and grateful welcome awaited him.

He moved to Ohio [from Pennsylvania] in about 1792.

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