Dorcas
Samson
Born in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Elijah (Samson) Sampson
and Ruth (Bradford) Sampson
Sister of
Priscilla (Samson) Soule, Abigail (Samson) Sampson, Ruth (Samson) Brewster, Stephen Samson, Bradford (Samson) Sampson, Welthea (Samson) Lewis, Deborah Sampson, Elijah Samson, Bartlett Samson, Zophar Samson, Elizabeth Samson, Deborah (Samson) Brewster, Elisha (Samson) Sampson Sr and Sylvia (Samson) Burgess
Died
at age 0
in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Nov 2014
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Biography
Dorcas, twin to Elizabeth and daughter of Elijah and Ruth (Bradford) Samson, was born at Duxbury on April 4, 1778, baptized there on April 15, 1778, and died on the 18th of April 1778.
Sources
- Robert Moody Sherman, Ruth Wilder Sherman, comps., Robert S. Wakefield, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Henry Samson, Volume 20, 3 parts (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000), vol. 1, p. 99
- Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston, MA: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 145 (baptism)
- Susan E. Roser, comp., Mayflower Births & Deaths, 2 volumes (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 2:264
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Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H6a1a9, FTDNA kit #B86069, MitoYDNA ID T17748 [compare]
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