Born in Plympton, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Moses Standish
and Rachel (Cobb) Standish
Sister of
Abigail Standish, Zerviah (Standish) Thompson, Rebecca (Standish) Weston, Moses Standish, Sarah (Standish) Wright and John Standish
Wife of
Philemon (Sampson) Samson
— married
12 May 1742 (to 6 Sep 1756) in Plympton, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Wife of
Amos Fuller Sr.
— married
25 Oct 1759 (to 31 Dec 1790) in Plympton, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Philemon Sampson, Newland Sampson, Sarah Sampson, Lydia (Sampson) Holmes, Moses Sampson, Benjamin Sampson, Jeremiah Sampson, Amos Fuller Jr. and Philemon Fuller
Died
at age 83
in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Nov 2010
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Biography
Rachel, daughter of Moses and Rachel (Cobb) Standish, was born at Plympton, MA on April 24, 1726. She married first Philemon Sampson, son of Benjamin and Margaret (Parker) Sampson, on May 12, 1742.
They resided at Plympton where they had seven children. Philemon died on September 6, 1756 at the age of 36 years, 3 months, 13 days, and is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery.
She married second Amos Fuller, son of Nathaniel and Martha (Samson) Fuller, as his second wife on October 25, 1759. Amos is a descendant of Mayflower passengers John Billington, Francis Eaton, and Samuel Fuller.
They resided at Plympton where they had two children. Amos died at Plympton on December 31, 1790 at the age of 71 years, 10 months, 8 days and is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery.
Rachel died at Plympton on October 13, 1809 at the age of 83 years, 5 months, 8 days.
Sources
- Russell L. Warner, comp., Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Myles Standish, Volume 14, (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2007), pp. 36, 104-105
- Vital Records of Plympton Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)., p.199 (birth)
- Vital Records of Plympton Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)., p.199 (birth)
- Vital Records of Plympton Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)., p.400 (1st marriage)
- Vital Records of Plympton Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)., p.384 (2nd marriage)
- Vital Records of Plympton Massachusetts to the year 1850, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)., p.480 (death)
- Find A Grave, Memorial #38644991; Created by: Mary Ellen DiCarlo; Photo by: NONE
- Fuller, William Hyslop. Fuller Genealogy (C.B. Fiske & Co., Palmer, Mass., 1910) Vol. 2, Page 23
- Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQN-N2Y : accessed 4 July 2021), entry for Rachel Standish Sampson, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
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~1.56%
Bob Sampson
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bfsampson
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #94773
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~0.78%
Richard Stevens :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #250145
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~0.39%
Paul Bumpus :
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