Lora (Sampson) Simmons (abt. 1688 - bef. 1718)

Born about 1688 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Simmons — married 3 Jan 1705 (to before 16 Jun 1718) in Duxbury, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Died before 16 Jun 1718 before about age 30 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Lora Sampson, the daughter of Caleb and Mercy (Standish) Samson, was born about 1688 at Duxbury, Plymouth Colony.^[1][2][3] Her father, Caleb, was 30, and her mother, Mercy, was 19.

She married Benjamin Simmons on January 3, 1706, in Duxbury. They had five children during their marriage. She died as a young mother on June 16, 1718, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, at the age of 30. ^{[4][5][1][2][3][6]} Benjamin, Lora’s second cousin, was the son of John Simmons and Mercy Pabodie, who was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the Mayflower. Benjamin was born about 1678-80 at Duxbury and died there before May 2, 1748.^[1][2][3]

Lora (Sampson) Simmons died at Duxbury between 16 Dec 1715 and 16 Jun 18 (date of birth of her widower Benjamin’s first child with his second wife).^[1]

The children of Benjamin and Lora Simmons were born in Duxbury:^[7]

1. Mercy Simmons, b. 14 Nov 1706.^[8]
2. Zachariah Simmons, b. 19 Mar 1708.^[9]
3. Benjamin Simmons, b. 13 Mar 1710.^[10]
4. Abraham Simmons, b. 09 Nov 1713.^[11]
5. Content Simmons, b. 16 Dec 1715.^[12]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Twenty. Part 1 Family of Henry Samson. Robert Moody Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sheman (compilers). (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Descendants of John Alden : Third Generation on Alden Org Mercy Standish and Caleb Sampson : accessed 3 Dec 2020
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Descendants of John Alden : Fourth Generation on Alden Org Benjamin Simmons m. Lora Samson : Wayback Machine capture date 27 Jan 2021.
4. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850
   • Volume: Duxbury - V1
   • Page: 300 of 446
   Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7699/300/142060550
5. ↑ Duxbury (Mass.), Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : Pub. by the New England historic genealogical society, at the charge of the Eddy town-record fund, 1911), page 306.
6. ↑ Vinton, John Adams. Genealogical Memoirs of the Sampson Family in America, from the Arrival of the Mayflower in 1620, to the Present Time. Henry W. Dutton & Son. Boston. 1864. Pg. 5
7. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Description Mayflower Births and Deaths: Volume 1 Source Information Ancestry.com. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data:Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3718/images/mayflowerbdi-001517.15?pId=60513
8. ↑ Birth • Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3N-18Z : 15 January 2020), Lorah in entry for Mercy Simons, 1706.
9. ↑ Birth • Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3K-8FD : 15 January 2020), Lora in entry for Zachariah Simons, 1708.
10. ↑ Birth • Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3V-RZJ : 15 January 2020), Lora in entry for Benjamin Simons, 1710.
11. ↑ Birth • Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3K-7FC : 15 January 2020), Lora in entry for Abraham Simons, 1713.
12. ↑ Birth • Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3J-PFQ : 15 January 2020), Lora in entry for Content Simons, 1715.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Claire Smith for creating WikiTree profile Sampson-821 through the import of smithwiki.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Claire and others.