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Notes for Nicholas Sampson

Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Edited by Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo, Vol. X, 1907, p. 178-179:
The family of Sampson settled in Colyton in the sixteenth century coming from Hawkchurch co. Dorset as shown by the following entries taken from the registers of Colyton parish church:
1554. Thomas Sampson of Hawkechurche was wedded unto Margaret Morrice widdowe sometyme wyef of John Morrice of Colyton the xxviii. daye of Januarye.
1570. Gregorie Sampson of Colyton son of Nycholas Sampson of Hawkechurche was weddied unto Alice Loflande daughter of Nicholas Loflande of Colyton the thyrd daye of Julye.
The descendants are still landowners in the parish of Colyton.