Samson (q.v. Sampson) Howe, s. of Abraham Howe and Sarah Pabody (q.v. Peabody), b. Nov. 1, 1683 at Ipswich, Mass.[*1] He d. Sept. 3, 1736 in what is now the Town of Thompson, Conn., Æ 53 (g.s.)[*2]
In 1708 Samson Howe, purportedly then of Roxbury, Mass. (but may have been residing at Roxbury's extended settlement of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Conn.), was the second known purchaser of land east of present-day Woodstock between the former 1684 boundary line between the Provinces of Conn. and Mass., and the revised 1713 survey line that established the present Conn.-Mass. state line. Howe established his family between the Quinnabaug and French rivers, north of their confluence at present-day Mechanicsville, in Thompson, Conn. The 1684 survey line was, on average, seven miles south of the modern state line.
The Town of Killingly, Conn., whose north boundary is the old 1684 provincial boundary line, was established in 1708, with Howe and others north of the 1684 line permitted to be associated with Killingly in civil and church society dealings provided they paid ministerial taxes. At the founding of Killingly's north parish church in 1715 (the whole of Killingly's north parish was in 1855 incorporated as part of the Town of Putnam, Conn.), whose records are now called those of the Putnam Congregational Church, Samson joined the Killingly church by letter from Woodstock yet remained a resident of the unorganized interval north of the limits of Killingly. In 1730 Conn. granted this unorganized area north of Killingly the right to be a separate church society, called the Thompson Parish, which in 1785 was incorporated as the Town of Thompson, Conn. One of the first orders of business of this new church society was to establish a training band; in May 1730 the Conn. Legislature approved Samson Howe as its Captain, Hezekiah Sabin as its Lieut., and John Dwight as its Ensign [Conn. Pub. Rec., 7:274-5]. Contrary to M.V.B. Perly in 1906, these were not "crown of England" military commissions. Perley also claimed Samson was instrumental in establishing the revised 1713 Conn.-Mass. provincial line, but no record of his direct involvement can be found.[*3]
On June 8, 1710 of record at Boxford, Mass., Samson Howe m. Alice Perley, dau. of John Perley and Mary Howlett, b. circa 1680 either at Boxford or Topsfield, Mass. The Perley Gen. claims she d. July 10, 1746 in the 66th year of her age, but neither vital record, church record nor extant gravestone are found to confirm this claim. If she died on the date stated "in the 66th year of her age," she was b. AFTER July 10, 1680. She is assumed to be interred near her husband, but no extant gravestone is known.
Samson Howe and Alice Perley had the following three known children, each undoubtedly born within the confines of the present-day Town of Thompson, Conn.:
• i. Rev. Perley Howe, but AFTER Mar. 10, 1710-11, d. Mar. 10, 1753 at Killingly, Conn. (g.s.); graduated Harvard 1735 and was minister in Dudley, Mass. (1735-1743) and of Killingly north parish, now Putnam, Conn. (1743-1753); m. Sept. 27, 1735 at Thompson Parish, Conn., Damaris Cady, dau. of Joseph Cady and Elizabeth Hosmer, bp. Sept. 22, 1717 at Killingly, Conn. Ten children of the family. Damaris m. 2) Nov 21, 1754 at Killingly, Rev. Aaron Brown, successor to Rev. Perley Howe of the Killingly (now Putnam) church.
• ii. Samson Howe, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1716 and recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Mar. 26, 1797 at Williamstown, Vermont (g.s.); m. 1) Dec. 29, 1737, Sarah Sabin, dau. of Hezekiah and Zurviah Sabin, bp. Sept. 27, 1719 at Killingly (now Putnam), Conn. She d. Aug. 10, 1752 at Middletown, Conn. Five recorded children of the family. He m. 2) Apr. 5, 1753 at Middletown, Conn., Hannah Foot, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Foot 4th and Ann Clark, b. Apr. 17, 1720 at Colchester, Conn. She d. July 12, 1817 at Williamstown, Vermont. Three children of the marriage.
• iii. Alice Howe, b. Apr. 4, 1720 recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Feb. 8, 1801 at Woodstock, Conn.; m. Mar. 7, 1739/40, probably at Thompson Parish, Conn. and called of Killingly, with intention recorded at Dudley, Mass., Thomas Newell, whose parentage, birth and death cannot be found. Twelve children of record; the eldest six at Dudley and the rest of baptism record at Woodstock, Conn.
[*1] No record of Samson's birth or baptism is of record where he is claimed to have been born. M.V.B. (Martin Van Buren) Perley in his 1906 Genealogy of the Perley Family, claimed Samson was b. Nov. 13, 1682 at Ipswich, Mass., but based on Samson's standing gravestone the year 1682 is not possible. Cutter in 1913 [New England Families, 2:536], claims Samson was b. Nov. 1, 1683, which is more consistent with the basis of Samson's gravestone inscription.
[*2] According to Ellen D. Larned's History of Windham County, Conn. (1874, 1:323-24), Samson left a large estate to his widow and sons. Mrs. Howe was to have half the house and a proportionate share of land and furniture. Should she marry again, she was allowed £80, and in case she out-lived her second husband she could return to Samson's house if she pleased, with her son Samson to take good care of her. Samson's estate inventory totaled more than £651, including two Negroes valued at £200. The Negro woman Leah was left to son Samson, and Cesar, Samson's man-servant, was left to son Perley. [Note: from October 1719-May 1747, the Town of Killingly and the north adjacent Thompson Parish, were part of Connecticut's Windham Probate District].
[*3] The geographic location of the Samson Howe family is misrepresented in many genealogies. As partially referenced above, the noted Thompson, Conn. native and regional historian Ellen D. Larned (1825-1912) published Vol. 1 (1874) and Vol. 2 (1880) of her History of Windham County, Connecticut. Scattered in multiple sections is an excellent summary of Quinatissit (q.v., Quinetusset), that portion of northeast Connecticut and adjacent Massachusetts that between 1684 and 1713 was the southern-most domain of the native Nipmuk tribe. Larned's narrative was compacted by Richard M. Bayles in his 1889 version of the History of Windham County. The claim that Samson's son Rev. Perley Howe was born in 1711 at Dudley, Mass. cannot be true. The land that became Dudley, Mass. was not purchased and settled until 1714.
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In 1708 Samson Howe, purportedly then of Roxbury, Mass. (but may have been residing at Roxbury's extended settlement of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Conn.), was the second known purchaser of land east of present-day Woodstock between the former 1684 boundary line between the Provinces of Conn. and Mass., and the revised 1713 survey line that established the present Conn.-Mass. state line. Howe established his family between the Quinnabaug and French rivers, north of their confluence at present-day Mechanicsville, in Thompson, Conn. The 1684 survey line was, on average, seven miles south of the modern state line.
The Town of Killingly, Conn., whose north boundary is the old 1684 provincial boundary line, was established in 1708, with Howe and others north of the 1684 line permitted to be associated with Killingly in civil and church society dealings provided they paid ministerial taxes. At the founding of Killingly's north parish church in 1715 (the whole of Killingly's north parish was in 1855 incorporated as part of the Town of Putnam, Conn.), whose records are now called those of the Putnam Congregational Church, Samson joined the Killingly church by letter from Woodstock yet remained a resident of the unorganized interval north of the limits of Killingly. In 1730 Conn. granted this unorganized area north of Killingly the right to be a separate church society, called the Thompson Parish, which in 1785 was incorporated as the Town of Thompson, Conn. One of the first orders of business of this new church society was to establish a training band; in May 1730 the Conn. Legislature approved Samson Howe as its Captain, Hezekiah Sabin as its Lieut., and John Dwight as its Ensign [Conn. Pub. Rec., 7:274-5]. Contrary to M.V.B. Perly in 1906, these were not "crown of England" military commissions. Perley also claimed Samson was instrumental in establishing the revised 1713 Conn.-Mass. provincial line, but no record of his direct involvement can be found.[*3]
On June 8, 1710 of record at Boxford, Mass., Samson Howe m. Alice Perley, dau. of John Perley and Mary Howlett, b. circa 1680 either at Boxford or Topsfield, Mass. The Perley Gen. claims she d. July 10, 1746 in the 66th year of her age, but neither vital record, church record nor extant gravestone are found to confirm this claim. If she died on the date stated "in the 66th year of her age," she was b. AFTER July 10, 1680. She is assumed to be interred near her husband, but no extant gravestone is known.
Samson Howe and Alice Perley had the following three known children, each undoubtedly born within the confines of the present-day Town of Thompson, Conn.:
• i. Rev. Perley Howe, but AFTER Mar. 10, 1710-11, d. Mar. 10, 1753 at Killingly, Conn. (g.s.); graduated Harvard 1735 and was minister in Dudley, Mass. (1735-1743) and of Killingly north parish, now Putnam, Conn. (1743-1753); m. Sept. 27, 1735 at Thompson Parish, Conn., Damaris Cady, dau. of Joseph Cady and Elizabeth Hosmer, bp. Sept. 22, 1717 at Killingly, Conn. Ten children of the family. Damaris m. 2) Nov 21, 1754 at Killingly, Rev. Aaron Brown, successor to Rev. Perley Howe of the Killingly (now Putnam) church.
• ii. Samson Howe, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1716 and recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Mar. 26, 1797 at Williamstown, Vermont (g.s.); m. 1) Dec. 29, 1737, Sarah Sabin, dau. of Hezekiah and Zurviah Sabin, bp. Sept. 27, 1719 at Killingly (now Putnam), Conn. She d. Aug. 10, 1752 at Middletown, Conn. Five recorded children of the family. He m. 2) Apr. 5, 1753 at Middletown, Conn., Hannah Foot, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Foot 4th and Ann Clark, b. Apr. 17, 1720 at Colchester, Conn. She d. July 12, 1817 at Williamstown, Vermont. Three children of the marriage.
• iii. Alice Howe, b. Apr. 4, 1720 recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Feb. 8, 1801 at Woodstock, Conn.; m. Mar. 7, 1739/40, probably at Thompson Parish, Conn. and called of Killingly, with intention recorded at Dudley, Mass., Thomas Newell, whose parentage, birth and death cannot be found. Twelve children of record; the eldest six at Dudley and the rest of baptism record at Woodstock, Conn.
[*1] No record of Samson's birth or baptism is of record where he is claimed to have been born. M.V.B. (Martin Van Buren) Perley in his 1906 Genealogy of the Perley Family, claimed Samson was b. Nov. 13, 1682 at Ipswich, Mass., but based on Samson's standing gravestone the year 1682 is not possible. Cutter in 1913 [New England Families, 2:536], claims Samson was b. Nov. 1, 1683, which is more consistent with the basis of Samson's gravestone inscription.
[*2] According to Ellen D. Larned's History of Windham County, Conn. (1874, 1:323-24), Samson left a large estate to his widow and sons. Mrs. Howe was to have half the house and a proportionate share of land and furniture. Should she marry again, she was allowed £80, and in case she out-lived her second husband she could return to Samson's house if she pleased, with her son Samson to take good care of her. Samson's estate inventory totaled more than £651, including two Negroes valued at £200. The Negro woman Leah was left to son Samson, and Cesar, Samson's man-servant, was left to son Perley. [Note: from October 1719-May 1747, the Town of Killingly and the north adjacent Thompson Parish, were part of Connecticut's Windham Probate District].
[*3] The geographic location of the Samson Howe family is misrepresented in many genealogies. As partially referenced above, the noted Thompson, Conn. native and regional historian Ellen D. Larned (1825-1912) published Vol. 1 (1874) and Vol. 2 (1880) of her History of Windham County, Connecticut. Scattered in multiple sections is an excellent summary of Quinatissit (q.v., Quinetusset), that portion of northeast Connecticut and adjacent Massachusetts that between 1684 and 1713 was the southern-most domain of the native Nipmuk tribe. Larned's narrative was compacted by Richard M. Bayles in his 1889 version of the History of Windham County. The claim that Samson's son Rev. Perley Howe was born in 1711 at Dudley, Mass. cannot be true. The land that became Dudley, Mass. was not purchased and settled until 1714.
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Samson (q.v. Sampson) Howe, s. of Abraham Howe and Sarah Pabody (q.v. Peabody), b. Nov. 1, 1683 at Ipswich, Mass.[*1] He d. Sept. 3, 1736 in what is now the Town of Thompson, Conn., Æ 53 (g.s.)[*2]
In 1708 Samson Howe, purportedly then of Roxbury, Mass. (but may have been residing at Roxbury's extended settlement of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Conn.), was the second known purchaser of land east of present-day Woodstock between the former 1684 boundary line between the Provinces of Conn. and Mass., and the revised 1713 survey line that established the present Conn.-Mass. state line. Howe established his family between the Quinnabaug and French rivers, north of their confluence at present-day Mechanicsville, in Thompson, Conn. The 1684 survey line was, on average, seven miles south of the modern state line.
The Town of Killingly, Conn., whose north boundary is the old 1684 provincial boundary line, was established in 1708, with Howe and others north of the 1684 line permitted to be associated with Killingly in civil and church society dealings provided they paid ministerial taxes. At the founding of Killingly's north parish church in 1715 (the whole of Killingly's north parish was in 1855 incorporated as part of the Town of Putnam, Conn.), whose records are now called those of the Putnam Congregational Church, Samson joined the Killingly church by letter from Woodstock yet remained a resident of the unorganized interval north of the limits of Killingly. In 1730 Conn. granted this unorganized area north of Killingly the right to be a separate church society, called the Thompson Parish, which in 1785 was incorporated as the Town of Thompson, Conn. One of the first orders of business of this new church society was to establish a training band; in May 1730 the Conn. Legislature approved Samson Howe as its Captain, Hezekiah Sabin as its Lieut., and John Dwight as its Ensign [Conn. Pub. Rec., 7:274-5]. Contrary to M.V.B. Perly in 1906, these were not "crown of England" military commissions. Perley also claimed Samson was instrumental in establishing the revised 1713 Conn.-Mass. provincial line, but no record of his direct involvement can be found.[*3]
On June 8, 1710 of record at Boxford, Mass., Samson Howe m. Alice Perley, dau. of John Perley and Mary Howlett, b. circa 1680 either at Boxford or Topsfield, Mass. The Perley Gen. claims she d. July 10, 1746 in the 66th year of her age, but neither vital record, church record nor extant gravestone are found to confirm this claim. If she died on the date stated "in the 66th year of her age," she was b. AFTER July 10, 1680. She is assumed to be interred near her husband, but no extant gravestone is known.
Samson Howe and Alice Perley had the following three known children, each undoubtedly born within the confines of the present-day Town of Thompson, Conn.:
• i. Rev. Perley Howe, but AFTER Mar. 10, 1710-11, d. Mar. 10, 1753 at Killingly, Conn. (g.s.); graduated Harvard 1735 and was minister in Dudley, Mass. (1735-1743) and of Killingly north parish, now Putnam, Conn. (1743-1753); m. Sept. 27, 1735 at Thompson Parish, Conn., Damaris Cady, dau. of Joseph Cady and Elizabeth Hosmer, bp. Sept. 22, 1717 at Killingly, Conn. Ten children of the family. Damaris m. 2) Nov 21, 1754 at Killingly, Rev. Aaron Brown, successor to Rev. Perley Howe of the Killingly (now Putnam) church.
• ii. Samson Howe, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1716 and recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Mar. 26, 1797 at Williamstown, Vermont (g.s.); m. 1) Dec. 29, 1737, Sarah Sabin, dau. of Hezekiah and Zurviah Sabin, bp. Sept. 27, 1719 at Killingly (now Putnam), Conn. She d. Aug. 10, 1752 at Middletown, Conn. Five recorded children of the family. He m. 2) Apr. 5, 1753 at Middletown, Conn., Hannah Foot, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Foot 4th and Ann Clark, b. Apr. 17, 1720 at Colchester, Conn. She d. July 12, 1817 at Williamstown, Vermont. Three children of the marriage.
• iii. Alice Howe, b. Apr. 4, 1720 recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Feb. 8, 1801 at Woodstock, Conn.; m. Mar. 7, 1739/40, probably at Thompson Parish, Conn. and called of Killingly, with intention recorded at Dudley, Mass., Thomas Newell, whose parentage, birth and death cannot be found. Twelve children of record; the eldest six at Dudley and the rest of baptism record at Woodstock, Conn.
[*1] No record of Samson's birth or baptism is of record where he is claimed to have been born. M.V.B. (Martin Van Buren) Perley in his 1906 Genealogy of the Perley Family, claimed Samson was b. Nov. 13, 1682 at Ipswich, Mass., but based on Samson's standing gravestone the year 1682 is not possible. Cutter in 1913 [New England Families, 2:536], claims Samson was b. Nov. 1, 1683, which is more consistent with the basis of Samson's gravestone inscription.
[*2] According to Ellen D. Larned's History of Windham County, Conn. (1874, 1:323-24), Samson left a large estate to his widow and sons. Mrs. Howe was to have half the house and a proportionate share of land and furniture. Should she marry again, she was allowed £80, and in case she out-lived her second husband she could return to Samson's house if she pleased, with her son Samson to take good care of her. Samson's estate inventory totaled more than £651, including two Negroes valued at £200. The Negro woman Leah was left to son Samson, and Cesar, Samson's man-servant, was left to son Perley. [Note: from October 1719-May 1747, the Town of Killingly and the north adjacent Thompson Parish, were part of Connecticut's Windham Probate District].
[*3] The geographic location of the Samson Howe family is misrepresented in many genealogies. As partially referenced above, the noted Thompson, Conn. native and regional historian Ellen D. Larned (1825-1912) published Vol. 1 (1874) and Vol. 2 (1880) of her History of Windham County, Connecticut. Scattered in multiple sections is an excellent summary of Quinatissit (q.v., Quinetusset), that portion of northeast Connecticut and adjacent Massachusetts that between 1684 and 1713 was the southern-most domain of the native Nipmuk tribe. Larned's narrative was compacted by Richard M. Bayles in his 1889 version of the History of Windham County. The claim that Samson's son Rev. Perley Howe was born in 1711 at Dudley, Mass. cannot be true. The land that became Dudley, Mass. was not purchased and settled until 1714.
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In 1708 Samson Howe, purportedly then of Roxbury, Mass. (but may have been residing at Roxbury's extended settlement of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Conn.), was the second known purchaser of land east of present-day Woodstock between the former 1684 boundary line between the Provinces of Conn. and Mass., and the revised 1713 survey line that established the present Conn.-Mass. state line. Howe established his family between the Quinnabaug and French rivers, north of their confluence at present-day Mechanicsville, in Thompson, Conn. The 1684 survey line was, on average, seven miles south of the modern state line.
The Town of Killingly, Conn., whose north boundary is the old 1684 provincial boundary line, was established in 1708, with Howe and others north of the 1684 line permitted to be associated with Killingly in civil and church society dealings provided they paid ministerial taxes. At the founding of Killingly's north parish church in 1715 (the whole of Killingly's north parish was in 1855 incorporated as part of the Town of Putnam, Conn.), whose records are now called those of the Putnam Congregational Church, Samson joined the Killingly church by letter from Woodstock yet remained a resident of the unorganized interval north of the limits of Killingly. In 1730 Conn. granted this unorganized area north of Killingly the right to be a separate church society, called the Thompson Parish, which in 1785 was incorporated as the Town of Thompson, Conn. One of the first orders of business of this new church society was to establish a training band; in May 1730 the Conn. Legislature approved Samson Howe as its Captain, Hezekiah Sabin as its Lieut., and John Dwight as its Ensign [Conn. Pub. Rec., 7:274-5]. Contrary to M.V.B. Perly in 1906, these were not "crown of England" military commissions. Perley also claimed Samson was instrumental in establishing the revised 1713 Conn.-Mass. provincial line, but no record of his direct involvement can be found.[*3]
On June 8, 1710 of record at Boxford, Mass., Samson Howe m. Alice Perley, dau. of John Perley and Mary Howlett, b. circa 1680 either at Boxford or Topsfield, Mass. The Perley Gen. claims she d. July 10, 1746 in the 66th year of her age, but neither vital record, church record nor extant gravestone are found to confirm this claim. If she died on the date stated "in the 66th year of her age," she was b. AFTER July 10, 1680. She is assumed to be interred near her husband, but no extant gravestone is known.
Samson Howe and Alice Perley had the following three known children, each undoubtedly born within the confines of the present-day Town of Thompson, Conn.:
• i. Rev. Perley Howe, but AFTER Mar. 10, 1710-11, d. Mar. 10, 1753 at Killingly, Conn. (g.s.); graduated Harvard 1735 and was minister in Dudley, Mass. (1735-1743) and of Killingly north parish, now Putnam, Conn. (1743-1753); m. Sept. 27, 1735 at Thompson Parish, Conn., Damaris Cady, dau. of Joseph Cady and Elizabeth Hosmer, bp. Sept. 22, 1717 at Killingly, Conn. Ten children of the family. Damaris m. 2) Nov 21, 1754 at Killingly, Rev. Aaron Brown, successor to Rev. Perley Howe of the Killingly (now Putnam) church.
• ii. Samson Howe, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1716 and recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Mar. 26, 1797 at Williamstown, Vermont (g.s.); m. 1) Dec. 29, 1737, Sarah Sabin, dau. of Hezekiah and Zurviah Sabin, bp. Sept. 27, 1719 at Killingly (now Putnam), Conn. She d. Aug. 10, 1752 at Middletown, Conn. Five recorded children of the family. He m. 2) Apr. 5, 1753 at Middletown, Conn., Hannah Foot, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Foot 4th and Ann Clark, b. Apr. 17, 1720 at Colchester, Conn. She d. July 12, 1817 at Williamstown, Vermont. Three children of the marriage.
• iii. Alice Howe, b. Apr. 4, 1720 recorded in the Killingly, Conn. vital records, d. Feb. 8, 1801 at Woodstock, Conn.; m. Mar. 7, 1739/40, probably at Thompson Parish, Conn. and called of Killingly, with intention recorded at Dudley, Mass., Thomas Newell, whose parentage, birth and death cannot be found. Twelve children of record; the eldest six at Dudley and the rest of baptism record at Woodstock, Conn.
[*1] No record of Samson's birth or baptism is of record where he is claimed to have been born. M.V.B. (Martin Van Buren) Perley in his 1906 Genealogy of the Perley Family, claimed Samson was b. Nov. 13, 1682 at Ipswich, Mass., but based on Samson's standing gravestone the year 1682 is not possible. Cutter in 1913 [New England Families, 2:536], claims Samson was b. Nov. 1, 1683, which is more consistent with the basis of Samson's gravestone inscription.
[*2] According to Ellen D. Larned's History of Windham County, Conn. (1874, 1:323-24), Samson left a large estate to his widow and sons. Mrs. Howe was to have half the house and a proportionate share of land and furniture. Should she marry again, she was allowed £80, and in case she out-lived her second husband she could return to Samson's house if she pleased, with her son Samson to take good care of her. Samson's estate inventory totaled more than £651, including two Negroes valued at £200. The Negro woman Leah was left to son Samson, and Cesar, Samson's man-servant, was left to son Perley. [Note: from October 1719-May 1747, the Town of Killingly and the north adjacent Thompson Parish, were part of Connecticut's Windham Probate District].
[*3] The geographic location of the Samson Howe family is misrepresented in many genealogies. As partially referenced above, the noted Thompson, Conn. native and regional historian Ellen D. Larned (1825-1912) published Vol. 1 (1874) and Vol. 2 (1880) of her History of Windham County, Connecticut. Scattered in multiple sections is an excellent summary of Quinatissit (q.v., Quinetusset), that portion of northeast Connecticut and adjacent Massachusetts that between 1684 and 1713 was the southern-most domain of the native Nipmuk tribe. Larned's narrative was compacted by Richard M. Bayles in his 1889 version of the History of Windham County. The claim that Samson's son Rev. Perley Howe was born in 1711 at Dudley, Mass. cannot be true. The land that became Dudley, Mass. was not purchased and settled until 1714.
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Inscription
Memento Mori
Here Lies Buried ye
Body of Cap-tn
SAMSON HOWE
Who Departed This Life
on fept. ye 3 A.D.
1736 Ætatis suæ 53.
"The memory of the Juft
is Blefsed"
"Recut 1879. By
A Descendant of the
fifth generation."
On the day Samson died he was 52 years old, and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of his Age) 53, indicating he was born AFTER Sept. 3, 1683.
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