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James, Stephen and Caleb. The latter married Mercy, daughter of Captain Miles Standish. The line of descent from Henry Sampson, the May- flower pilgrim, to the present generation of his pos- terity in New Hampshire has not as yet been sub- jected to the process of original research, and is therefore not to be found in the various geneal- ogical and historical works containing references to the family. One or more of his descendants set- tled in Sharon, Massachusetts, but the vital records of that town are not available to the writer.
(I) Dr. Nehemiah Bradford, a lineal descendant of Henry and Ann (Plummer) Sampson, was born in Sharon, July 16, 1766. He was one of the early regular medical practitioners in Maine, going there when that state was a part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and for some time he resided in Readfield. His last days were spent in Rochester, New Hampshire, where he died April 26, 1818. He married Bathsheba Baker, who was born in Sharon, December 20, 1789, and died in Lincoln, Maine, July 16, 1850. They were the parents of : Jonathan, who resided in Alton, this state, and was a soldier in the Mexican war; James, who was long in the employ of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company of Dover as a mechanical engineer; Luther, who is again mentioned in the succeeding paragraph; and several daughters, whose names are not at hand.
(II) Luther, youngest son of Dr. Nehemiah and Bathsheba (Baker) Sampson, was born in Read- field, Maine, December 12, 1808. Early in life he entered a cotton mill as an apprentice, and becoming an overseer was employed as such in factories at Dover and Great Falls, New Hampshire, and Saco, Maine. He finally withdrew from the textile in- dustry and settled upon a farm in Rochester, where he died May 24, 1884. He married Mary E. Leigh- ton, who was born in Strafford, New Hampshire, October 15, 1807, and died in Boston November 4, 1866. (See Leighton). She bore him four children : Lieutenant John Calvin, who served in the Civil War in the Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Vol- unteers, and met a hero's death at the siege of Petersburg, July 30, 1864 (the Grand Army Post at Rochester was named in his honor); Luther Bradford, who will be again referred to; Helen Amanda, who is now residing at Rock Island, Illi- nois, and is the widow of Captain James Blaisdell, also of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers; Andrew Leighton (deceased), whose son Ernest is now a member of the firm of Knott & Samp- son, lumber dealers, Boston. He served in the United States Navy during the Civil war.
(III) Captain Luther Bradford Sampson, son of Luther and Mary E. (Leighton) Sampson, was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, September 1, 1841. He attended the district schools as he had op- portunity until sixteen years of age, and then ap- prenticed himself to the trade of carriage maker in Rochester. He worked with his brother until 1860, and then on account of the stagnation of busi- ness he, with John Meader, resolved to go to Bos-
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ton and ship as scaman. Each had cleven dollars of state bank notes and the clothes they wore. They spent several days in the metropolis of New England seeking for a berth, but met with nothing but discouragement, and no employment could be found. They even tried to ship at four dollars a month, but failed to find a ship that needed their services. Those were hard times brought about as the result of the workings of the tariff for revenue only. Failing to find employment of any kind at any price, they went to New York, ex- changing at a great discount their state bank notes for notes of states in which they were traveling, so that they found themselves broke in New York, where their experiences was a repetition of what they had in Boston. From thence they went to Philadelphia. No permanent work could be ob- tained any where, and besides there was an army of men about them unemployed and waiting for any work that was offered. Leaving Philadelphia, they followed the Pennsylvania Central Railroad to Altoona, seeking employment as they went. They at last found a job at sixteen dollars a month cut- ting lumber eleven miles from Altoona, Pennsyl- vania. There young Sampson worked until spring, when his employers failed and he realized that he had toiled all winter for his board and very little more. His next employment was teaming over a mountain road thirty miles to and from a railroad station, hauling lumber one way and groceries the other way. As young Sampson got no money for his services he grew tired of this. One night he drove a team to take part of a company of soldiers who had enlisted for the Civil war to the station.
Tired and disheartened with his late experiences he enlisted, October 3, 1861, in Company K, Eighty- fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and went to the front. Twenty days after his enlistment he was made fourthi sergeant of his company. He was ad- vanced to the rank of second lieutenant, June 21, 1862; to that of first lieutenant, May 3, 1863, and became captain, September 4. 1864. All these pro- motions were for gallantry in the field. He served until December 4, 1864, and was then discharged at Petersburg, Virginia. During his three years service he participated in the following named bat- tles and minor engagements: Winchester, Front Royal, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Rappa- hannock Station and Kelley's Ford, Waterloo Bridge, Lee Springs, Freeman's Ford, Sulphur Spring-, Thoroughfare Gap, the second battle of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wapping Ileighits, Bristow Station, Jacob's Ford, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Rapidan River, the Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Jericho's Ford, Taylor's Bridge, Pleasant Hill, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Baylor's Farm, Walthall, Weir Bottom Church, Weldon Rail- road, Davis Farm, Deep Bottom, Malvern Hill, Strawberry Plains, Ream's Station, Poplar Springs, and llatcher's Run. While advancing his company as skirmishers in the night, .August 30, 1862, at the Second Bull Run Battle he encountered the brigade
commanded by Stonewell Jackson, and was captured and taken to Libby Prison. He was confined there thirty days, and then paroled, December, 1862; he was exchanged and joined his regiment as it came out of the battle of Fredericksburg. December 13, 1862. He was aide-de-camp at brigade headquarters from June 2, 1864, to July 26. 1864. his duty being to carry orders from headquarters to seven regi- ments stationed along the firing line. One captain of Company K was killed, and another lost an arm. Mr. Sampson commanded his company, and he led them to battle at Winchester and Port Republic, and in fact commanded the company during the greater part of the war before he was made captain. He was discharged December 4, 1864, with a ser- vice record of two hundred and twenty-two days under fire, and returned to Rochester with the in- tention of raising a battery, but the surrender of General Lee ended the war and defeated his pur- pose, and he returned to the pursuits of peace, and engaged in them with the same fervor that he had given to the defence of his country.
For thirty years he was the employ of E. G. & E. Wallace, shoe manufacturers of Rochester, and for many years foreman of one of their largest departments. In 1897 he became associated with Isador Salinger, and they formed the Rochester Carpet Company, dealers in carpets, draperies, etc. In 1906 Captain Sampson became sole owner of the business and has since carried it on. Captain Sampson has always been one of the most public- spirited and patriotic citizens of the place of his residence, and his reputation as a military man is well known throughout the state. He was police officer of and later chief of police of Rochester, and for a time state liquor agent for Rochester district. When the fact developed that a war with Spain was inevitable, he applied for a military appointment, but on account of his age and the great number of younger men seeking the same positions and the lim- ited number required to fill all available positions, he was not appointed. He is a member of the John C. Sampson Post, Grand Army of the Republic, which was named for his brother who was killed while making a charge after the mine explosion before Petersburg, Virginia, July 30, 1864, while a first lieutenant in Company H. Ninth New Hamp- shire Volunteer Infantry. Ile is also a member of the National Association of Ex-Prisoners of War, and of the following divisions of the Masonic Order : Ilumane Lodge, No. 21; and Temple Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20. He is a member of the Im- proved Order of Red Men and Comrades of the Battlefield, of which latter organization he is major- general for New Hampshire.
Captain Sampson married, at Horseheads, New York, March 4, 1864, Susan E. Patterson, who was born at Milford, Pennsylvania, in 1845, daughter of Virgil and Elizabeth W. ( Wainwright) Patterson, of Chemung. One child, John Calvin, was born to them December 19, 1864. Ile has been for years a bookkeeper in the National Bank of the Republic, Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. S. E. Sampson comes
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from an old Pennsylvania family; five of her brothers were soldiers in the late Civil war.
SHANNON The name O'Scanchain was first assumed as a surname by Aodh, a chieftain of the province of Ulster, whose christian name long before his birth had designated six of the ancient kings of Ireland. The surname assumed was derived from the name of one of Aodh's remote ancestors. Saeanchan, and composed of two Celtic words, "Sancha" (an anti- quarian or genealogist) and "an" (one who). the prefix O' and change in the orthography being nec- essary to denote descent.
Aodh O'Seanchain, whose lineage is traced in O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" through sixteen genera- tions of his ancestors. was the first to add the name of O'Seanchain to his christian name and so be- came founder of the family. This occurred in all probability between the years A. D. 950 and A. D. 1000, and allowing four generations for each one hundred years, Donchadh Cuan, the earliest known ancestor of Aodh O'Seanchain, must have been liv- ing prior to A. D. 600.
(I) Nathaniel Shannon, the first of the name in New England, was born in Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland. in 1665, and belonged to a family of Scot- tish antecedents who were conspicuous for their at- tachment to the Presbyterian faith and their loyalty to English ascendency in Ireland. Historians record that during the year preceding the Revolution of 1688, which dethroned James HI, large numbers of Protestants emigrated from northern Ireland to Great Britain and America, and among them was Nathaniel Shannon, who landed in Boston some time during the year 1687. He then had attained the age of thirty-two years, probably was unmar- ried and possessed small means, but it is known that he had an excellent education. He at once en- gaged in mercantile pursuits and continued many years, filled some town offices and carly became an attendant at the Old South Church, and a communi- cant in 1701. In the same year he was appointed naval officer of the port of Boston and held that office until the time of his death. August 27, 1723. His wife, who survived him, was Elizabeth but her full name and the place and date of her birth are unknown. Their children: Nathaniel, Robert and Samuel.
(II) Nathaniel (2), eldest of the three children of Nathaniel (1) and Elizabeth Shannon, was born in Boston, December 9, 1689. and was a member of the Old South Church in 1711. Soon afterward he engaged in trade in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and re- moved from there to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was a shipping merchant until 1720. He also engaged in the fisheries, which even at that early period had become a leading industry in New England. A tradition in the family runs to the ef- fect that Mr. Shannon went to the West Indies in 1720 and remained there in connection with some commercial enterprise until the time of his death. the exact date of which is unknown and is believed
to have been previous to 1723. He married. in Portsmouth, November 25, 1714, Abigail Vaughan, who was born there May 5, 1683, daughter of Major William and Margaret (Cutts) Vaughan, and a de- seendant of Sir Roger Vaughan, of Glamorganshire. Wales, born about 1590. Children of Nathaniel and Abigail ( Vaughan) Shannon : Nathaniel, Cutts.
(III) Nathaniel (3), elder of the two sons of Nathaniel (2) and Abigail (Vaughan) Shannon. was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February 17. 1715-16. united with the church there in 1738. and became a Mason in 1739. He died in that city in 1753, aged thirty-eight years. He married, No- vember IO, 1737, Alice Frost, daughter of Samuel Frost, of Newcastle, New Hampshire, and an inn- keeper in Portsmouth. Children of Nathaniel and Alice (Frost) Shannon : George Walker, Nathaniel, Abigail, Margaret.
(IV) Nathaniel (4), second child and son of Nathaniel (3) and Alice (Frost) Shannon, was born in Portsmouth, and in business life was a ship builder. He married (first) Ann Card. of New- castle, who was born in 1741, and died in May, 1785. Married (second), in November, 1786, Elizabeth Kitson, widow of Richard Kitson, and daughter of Colonel John Dennett, of Portsmouth. Mr. Shannon died in September, 1792, and his widow married, April 14. 1802, James Chesley, of Roches- ter. New Hampshire. Children of Nathaniel and Ann (Card) Shannon : Margaret, Nathaniel, George Walker (twin), Thomas (twin), Samuel, George Walker. Children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Kitson) Shannon: Elizabeth, John. George.
(V) Nathaniel (5), second child and eldest son of Nathaniel (4) and Ann (Card) Shannon, was born in 1764, was a farmer in Portsmouth until 1796, when he removed to Barnstead and soon after- ward to Gilmanton, New Hampshire. where he died February 26, 1826, at the age of sixty-two years. His wife was Ann Elizabeth Peverly, born in Portsmouth, 1764, died in Gilmanton. February 9. 1850. aged eighty-six years. Their children: Na- thaniel, George, Nancy, John Sherburne. Samuel, Eliza. Margaret Nelson, William Cogswell, Elsie.
(V1) George. second child and second son of Nathaniel (5) and Ann Elizabeth (Peverly) Shan- non, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Oc- tober 4, 1786, and died April S, 1868. in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, where he was a farmer. His wife. Sally (Tebbets) Shannon. was born in 1785 and died June 5. 1872. daughter of Ephraim and Sally Tebbets, of Barnstead, New Hampshire. Their children: Ira, Stephen, Nathaniel. Ann, deceased, Ephraim. George Lamper, James Cate, John Chase, Charles Hezekiah.
(VHI) Stephen, second child and second son of George and Sally (Tebbets) Shannon, was born in Gilmanton. New Hampshire, May 1, 1808, and in business occupation was a farmer in that town and also in Laconia. He married. December 26, 1831, Ann Prescott Chase, born February 15, 1808. daughter of Captain Oliver Chase, of Portsmouth. Stephen Shannon died in Belmont, New Hampshire.
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.August 28, 1872. Ilis widow died in Laconia, Sep- tember 7, 1880. Their children: Mary Ada, born March 8, 1834. died childless October 27, 1884; mar- ried Rufus B. Tebbets, of Gilmanton. Caroline Elizabeth, see forward. Jonathan Coffin, born No- vember 29, 1842. Frances Ann, born October 13, 1848.
(\'JHI) Caroline Elizabeth, daughter and sec- ond child of Stephen and Ann Prescott (Chase) Shannon, was born in the town of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, May 3. 1837, married, December II, 1855, John Glines Jewett, of Laconia (See Jewett IX), and had three children: Stephen Shannon, John Bradbury and Katie Belle Jewett.
SWETT This name is found early in New Eng- land and has been borne by some of the most distinguished American citizens, including leading attorneys of Chicago, many years since. The descendants have been noted for their intellectual and moral forces and their ability to accomplish whatever they undertook. According to Burke the family of Swete or Swett, bearing a coat of arms. was formerly of Trayne, England, in the time of Edward VI and subsequently of Oxton, in the county of Devonshire, which furnished many colonists to New England. Richard Sweet was bailiff of Exeter in 1540 and 1590.
(I) The first of whom record appears in Amer- ica was Jolin Swett. He was admitted freeman of the Massachusetts colony, May 18, 1642. and was one of the grantees of Newbury in that colony as early as December 7, 1642. Little is found con- cerning him beyond these facts, but it is a safe con- jecture that he belonged to the hardy and enterpris- ing class which left England for religion's sake and settled in the Massachusetts colony.
(11) Captain Benjamin, son of John Swett, of Newbury, was born in England as early as 1626. He was among those who petitioned in 1649 from the general court, in company with other active men of Dover and Newbury, the granting of a tract of land at Pennecooke. This scheme was abandoned, and about 1663 he removed with his family to Hampton. He was chosen commissioner for the county rates in 1665-68. and selectman in 1665-69-75. Hle received a grant of one hundred acres of land in 1670, the number of his grant be- ing fifty-six. His chief service was improving the military discipline. Ilis fondness for martial life was early developed and was appreciated by his townsmen, who elected him to offices of much im- portance in the public estimation. He was elected ensign of Newbury. There is preserved in the records of old Norfolk county a lengthy petition to the general court, which appears to have been in Captain Swett's handwriting and is an elegant sam- ple of penmanship of that day. This petition bore the date of 1671. Froni that time on Captain Swett's life was passed in active military service, and he was always employed in positions which re- quired sagacity and courage. He was in command of a fort at Wells. Maine, and was subsequently
killed in a fight with the Indians at Black Point, in Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677. He was mar- ried November 1, 1647, to Hester (or Esther), daughter of Nathaniel Weare, Senior. of Newbury. After his death she was married, March 31, 1678, to Ensign Stephen Greenleaf, of Newbury. She died January 16, 1718, aged eighty-nine years. Cap- tain Swett's children were: Esther, Sarah. Mary (died in infancy), Mary, Benjamin, Joseph, Moses, Hannah, Elizabeth. John and Stephen.
(III) Joseph, second son and fifth child of Captain Benjamin and Hester or Esther (Weare) Swett, was born January 1, 1659, in Hampton Falls, and was the most noted and influential of his father's sons. He lived near and for many years enjoyed the friendship of his uncle, Nathaniel Weare, in the southern part of Hampton, which is now Hampton Falls. He was a very active man and took a warm interest in the organization of the parish at Hampton Falls. He was among those who petitioned to the king for a redress of public grievances, under the reign of Cramfield. in 1683. He was one of the selectmen of Hampton, in 1693- 98-1712-13-17. In the latter year he was called "Captain Swett." He was representative to the Provincial assembly in 1693-98-1708. His first wife's christian name was Hannah and she was the mother of three children: Hannah, Margaret and Abigail. His second wife, Sarah, was the mother of: Lydia, Hannah, Benjamin, Jonathan and Moses.
(IV) Benjamin. eldest son of Lieutenant Joseph Swett and third child of his second wife, Sarah, was born May 2, 1710, in Hampton, and re- sided on the paternal estate. He was married Jan- uary 20, 1732, to widow, Elizabeth Jenness. daugh- ter of Bonus Norton, of Ipswich and Hampton. Their children were: Sarah, Moses, Lydia and Elizabeth.
(V) Moses, only son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth J. ( Norton) Swett, was born in 1738. He mar- ried Rogers. and died about 1764.
(VI) Thomas R., son of Moses Swett, of Hampton, settled in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, and was a Revolutionary soldier. He married (first) Squire Cram's daughter, and (second) Bessie Knowlton, daughter of Rev. David and Mary (Green) Knowlton. She was born July 27, 1770, in Pittsfield.
(VII) Thomas, son of Thomas R. Swett, was born in Pittsfield, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Sarah Prescott, and their chil- dren were: Ebenezer, Moses, David K., Daniel, Betsey, Sally and Mary.
(VIII) David K., third son and third child of Thomas and Sarah ( Prescott) Swett, was born April 29, IS29. in Pittsfield, and was educated in the public schools and an academy of that town. He was prominent in the affairs of the town and in the building up of its central village, but never sought for any official station. Though not a mem- ber of any church, he supported the Congregational Society of which his wife was a member. He was married January 24, 1866, to Elizabeth A. Lane, who
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was born April 6, 18441, in Chichester, New Hamp- shire, and is now living in Pittsfield. He died in Pittsfield. His children were: Sarah, Lillian and Edith E. The last is the wife of Natt Allen Cram, of Pittsfield (see Cram, VIII). Mrs. David K. Swett is a daughter of Moses G. and Sophia (San- born) Lane; the latter a daughter of James San- born, of Epsom, and is a direct descendant of Jeremiah Lane. a New England pioneer.
This name first appears as Leya, De Le,
LEE De la Lee, and of various spellings, grad- ually taking the present form, Lee. In the "Doomsday Book" Lega and Lee are often used to denote the same family. The name has also some- times assumed still other forms, as Lea, Leigh, Lay, and Ley. The word "Lee" signifies a "pasture, meadow or grass land." Previous to the use of surnames, persons were designated by the place of their residence, or some other epithet descriptive of their personal character or occupation.
The family of Lee is one of the most ancient in English history. In the eleventh century Launcelot Lee was associated with William the Conqueror, and in the division of estates by that chieftain, a fine estate in Essex county was bestowed upon him. Lionel Lee "raised a company of gentlemen ca- valiers." at the head of which he accompanied Rich- ard Coeur de Lion, in the third crusade, A. D. 1192. For gallant conduct at the siege of Acre, he was made Earl of Litchfield, and another estate was given to the family, which was later called "Ditchly." The Lees were devoted followers of the Stuarts, and distinguished for loyalty to the crown, and for their acts of valor received various honors and dis- tinctions. Two of the name have been Knights of the Garter. and their banners surmounted by the "Lee Arms" may be seen in St. George's Chapel. Windsor. The Lees of Virginia are descendants of emigrants from the same county as the Lees of this article, but there is no proof of relationship between the two families.
(I) John Lee, American ancestor of the Farm- ington family of the same name, was born in Essex county, England, and was probably in Colchester, in 1620. between April 10 and August 8. In the official shipping list of passengers sailing from Ipswich, April 10, 1634, he is represented as thirteen years of age. When he died, August 8, 1690, his age was given as seventy years, consequently his fourteenth year must have been completed previous to August 8, 1634. There is no record of his parents. but the name was very common in Essex county among families of distinction.
In a record kept by a great-grandson of John, Seth Lee. A. M., a paper, evidently written for pos- terity. entitled, "Some Account of the Lees of Farmington," taken down about 1766. and continued to 1802, he says :
"Mr. John Lee was sent by his father from Colchester, England, to America, among some of the first settlers, and his father told him he designed to come with his family afterward. However, he
never came, and John never heard ('tis said) much about him. This John was under age. He lived at Hartford, and when they began to settle Farming- ton he came there with the rest and was one of the eighty-four Proprietors to whom the large Tract of Land called Farmington was granted, as may be seen in the Records of the town, where, in the sev- eral Division Lots were layd out to him, the sd John Lee." Undisputable evidence of his arrival in this country under the guardianship of William Westwood may be found in the records. After spending a year with his guardian at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he came with him to Hartford in 1635. where he spent his boyhood.
In 1641, the year following the advent of the whites to Farmington, he joined their little band, and became one of the first eighty-four proprietors of the township. As he was but just twenty-one at the time, it is probable he had inherited property, or funds were furnished to him by his guardian to contribute his share to the purchase of the tract. The public records of Farmington, previous to 1666, are missing. One account reports them as burned in February of that year, when the home of John Hart, the brother of Mary Hart Lee, was attacked by the Indians and burned, and the whole family perished except one lad, who was absent. The state archives show that "John Lee was sworn constable at a particular court at Hartford, March 4, 1658," an office of great importance at that date, being con- sidered as the "right arm of the law," and chief executive officer of the town. In the general di- vision of lands in the original town of Farmington, which was fifteen miles square. hundreds of acres were allotted to John Lee. Remnants of these lands are still owned by his descendants, having never been sold out of the family during a period of more than two hundred and seventy years. His home lot was located on the west side of the main street of Farmington. and may be designated now as the ground occupied by the noted school of the Misses Porter.
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