Individual Details
[unknown] NASH
(Abt 1625 - Abt 1655)
This entry is based on the assumption that she was a Nash, but not Esther Nash. Mayflower Descendants, Standish, p. 8, says that she was a Nash.
Some sources dispute that she was a Nash.
• Identity: Robert Charles Anderson in his 2004 publication "The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633" states "The statement has appeared in print more than once that Esther, wife successively of Samuel Sampson and John Soule, was a daughter of Samuel Nash [NEHGR 52:76; MD 3:121], but this is an error, based on losing a generation by misreading the will of Samuel Nash [NEHGR 56:205]."
• Date of Death: Circa 1655 causes a problem in that Abraham's daughter Mary, said to have been born circa 1650, is thought to be the daughter of the second wife.
Some sources dispute that she was a Nash.
• Identity: Robert Charles Anderson in his 2004 publication "The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633" states "The statement has appeared in print more than once that Esther, wife successively of Samuel Sampson and John Soule, was a daughter of Samuel Nash [NEHGR 52:76; MD 3:121], but this is an error, based on losing a generation by misreading the will of Samuel Nash [NEHGR 56:205]."
• Date of Death: Circa 1655 causes a problem in that Abraham's daughter Mary, said to have been born circa 1650, is thought to be the daughter of the second wife.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1625 | England |  | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1650 | Abraham SAMPSON |  | | |
| Death | Abt 1655 | |
Families
| Spouse | Abraham SAMPSON (1614 - 1701) |
| Child | Samuel SAMPSON (1646 - 1675) |
| Child | Mary SAMPSON (1650 - 1716) |
| Child | Elizabeth SAMPSON (1648 - 1708) |
| Father | Living |
| Sibling | Martha NASH ( - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Date inferred from dates of birth of children.From "Descendants of Abraham Sampson":
Two wives?: Clarence Almon Torrey, PhD, and Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., make the strong case for Abraham Sampson having two wives: the first being an unidentified daughter of his Duxbury neighbor Lt. Nash and the second being completely unidentified.
Abraham married Unidentified given name NASH, daughter of Lt. Samuel NASH and Unidentified UNKNOWN, by 1625. Unidentified was born circa 1625 in England and died circa 1655 at age 30.
• Identity: Robert Charles Anderson in his 2004 publication "The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633" states "The statement has appeared in print more than once that Esther, wife successively of Samuel Sampson and John Soule, was a daughter of Samuel Nash [NEHGR 52:76; MD 3:121], but this is an error, based on losing a generation by misreading the will of Samuel Nash [NEHGR 56:205]."
• Date of Death: Circa 1655 causes a problem in that Abraham's daughter Mary, said to hae been born circa 1650, is thought to be the daughter of the second wife.
Endnotes
1. Pilgrim Henry Samson Kindred (https://www.pilgrimhenrysamsonkindred.org : accessed 23 February 2015), p 1.
2. Pilgrim Henry Samson Kindred (https://www.pilgrimhenrysamsonkindred.org : accessed 28 October 2014), entry for 1. Abraham Sampson.
3. Pilgrim Henry Samson Kindred (https://www.pilgrimhenrysamsonkindred.org : accessed 23 February 2015), p 1.