Sampson Chester (abt. 1591 - 1625)

Born about 9 Jun 1591 in Desford, Leicestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Tough) Stebbins — married 26 Nov 1617 in St. Anne's Blackfriars, London, London, England

Descendants

Died 8 Aug 1625 at about age 34 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England

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Biography

Sampson Chester, born about 1592, is the fourth son of Leonard Chester of Blaby, Leicestershire, England, and the third son of Leonard's second wife, Bridget Sharp, daughter of John Sharp of Frisby, Leicestershire, England.^[1][2] Sampson's older brother John Chester married Dorothy Hooker at Birstall, Leicestershire, 1 June 1609.^[1] Dorothy's brother is the Rev Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Connecticut.^[1]

Guild of Merchant Tailors' Company

Sampson's parents apprenticed him for seven years beginning 13 Oct 1606 to John Gilbert of Holbern, County Middlesex, citizen and merchant tailor of London.^[1]

Sampson Chester completed his apprenticeship "and was admitted to the freedom of the Merchant Tailors' Company on 3 July 1615".^[1] He set up his business in the parish of St. Anne's Blackfriars, where he later married Frances Tough.^[1]

Marriage and Children

Sampson Chester, and his wife Frances Tough, daughter of Ralph Tuffe (Tough) of Burrowe, Leicestershire, England,^[2] married November 26, 1617 in St. Anne's Blackfriars, London, London, England.^[1]

They had three daughters, Margaret, Johanna, and Abigail, and a son John Chester, baptized at Bermondsey 21 May 1621.^[1][3] John Chester is mentioned as living in London, England, in the wills of his mother, Frances and her third husband, Edward Stebbins. John Chester did not marry a daughter of Edward (Stebbins) Stebbings, as postulated in some early genealogies, but the name of his wife and mother of his sons John and Sampson Chester, is Unknown.^[1]

Death

Sampson Chester died between 1623 (his daughter Abigail was baptized at Bermondsey parish, London, 5 Nov 1623), and the date of his wife's second marriage, Feb 1627/8, but his burial record is not found in the Bermondsey Register.^[1]

• Fact: Christening (9 June 1591) Desford, Leicestershire, England
• Fact: will (01 DEC 1614) Blaby,Leicester,England
• Fact: Burial (11 August 1625) Bermondsey, Surrey, England

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, wife of Edward Stebbing of Hartford, Connecticut by John Insley Coddington, F.A.S.G., Part I, pages 193-194, 201
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619, by William Camden, (1870), Vol II, page 138
3. ↑ Genealogical notes of the families of Chester of Blaby, Leicestershire, and Chester of Wethersfield, Conn., New England, by Robert Edmond Chester Waters, database online at Internet Archive (1886), pages 7-8

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 08 April 2020, 11:35), entry for Sampson Chester(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K4NL-J66); contributed by various users.

See also:

• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, wife of Edward Stebbing of Hartford, Connecticut, by John Insley Coddington, F.A.S.G. of Washington, D.C. (Part I) and Mrs. Florence E. Skillington of Leicester, England (Part II) Vol. 30, page 193-194, 201

• The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619, database online at Internet Archive.org, Taken by William Camden - College of Arms, Edited by John Fetherston, F.S.A., (London, Harleian Society, 1870 ), vol II, page 138 Chester

• Genealogical notes of the families of Chester of Blaby, Leicestershire, and Chester of Wethersfield, Conn., New England, by Waters, Robert Edmond Chester, (London, Leicester, Clarke and Hodgson, 1886), pages 7-8,