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- [S650] Suzanne Dunbar [dunbarfamily2@comcast.net]; 3111 South 2000 East, Salt Lake, Utah 84109, Research of Suzanne Dunbar, Name: Source materials noted in manuscript provided;, H. Hobart Holly, Braintree Historical Society.
- [S608] Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793, Name: 1886;, 818.
Samson, a Malatto, a servant that lives with Cornelius Thayer Junior, was born the 16th Day of June 1721
- [S650] Suzanne Dunbar [dunbarfamily2@comcast.net]; 3111 South 2000 East, Salt Lake, Utah 84109, Research of Suzanne Dunbar, Name: Source materials noted in manuscript provided;, Suffolk Deeds 86-257.
and ten years later Sampson sold it to Josiah Quincy. This was in present Randolph near Oak & North Streets.
- [S650] Suzanne Dunbar [dunbarfamily2@comcast.net]; 3111 South 2000 East, Salt Lake, Utah 84109, Research of Suzanne Dunbar, Name: Source materials noted in manuscript provided;.
- [S708] George R. Price and James Brewer Stewart, To Heal the Scourage of Prejudice, Name: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst;, 4.
Sampson Dunbar, b. 6-16-1721, Norfolk Co., Mass., d. 8-15-1804 (sold land to Josiah Quincy in 1765)
- [S240] e-mail, George R. Price - George Price [dxn3572@blackfoot.net].
Sampson Dunbar died August 15, 1804, and was listed as "black" in the death record (FHL microfilm #0932776, "Stoughton births, marriages, and deaths, 1717-1860", item 3, page 14). In most records Sampson was referred to as a "mulatto", and sometimes no racial designation was given, which was usually the case for "white" persons. It was not at all unusual for persons of mixed race to be referred to by different racial labels for the same person on different records. Indians or mixed Afro-Indians were often referred to as "mulattoes", "negroes", and even as "blacks" in early Massachusetts records. Frequent intermarriage between Afro-Americans and American Indians in the 17th through 19th centuries in Massachusetts was due largely to what historian Daniel Mandell called a "complimentary gender imbalance"- a surplus of Afro males complemented by a surplus of Indian women due to more male Africans being enslaved than females, and Indian males being killed, captured and sold into Caribbean slavery during the colonial era Indian wars. (See, Mandell, Daniel R. ?Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity: Indian-Black Intermarriage in Southern New England, 1760-1880?, Journal of American History, September, 1998). An excellent book that deals with the topic of racial labelling of mixed black, Indian, and white people in the colonial era is Forbes, Jack D. Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1993).
- [S113] Braintree Vital Records 1640-1793.
Braintree Births (C-D) 1640-1793
Completed 3/15/00
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/birthc-d.htm
Surname Given Gender Birth Date Father Mother
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Dunbar Amee F May 31 1752 Sampson Patience
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Dunbar Asa M Mar 16 1754 Sampson Patience
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Dunbar Joshua M May 18 1760 Sampson Patience
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Dunbar Molley F Feb 22 1758 Sampson Patience
824
Dunbar Samuel M Nov 10 1762 Sampson Patience
824
Dunbar Sarah F Mar 13 1756 Sampson Patience
824
- [S650] Suzanne Dunbar [dunbarfamily2@comcast.net]; 3111 South 2000 East, Salt Lake, Utah 84109, Research of Suzanne Dunbar, Name: Source materials noted in manuscript provided;, Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Boston: NEHGS, 1909, pg. 79.
Crouch, Patience and Samson Dunbar of Brantrey, int. Sept. 29, 1750
- [S650] Suzanne Dunbar [dunbarfamily2@comcast.net]; 3111 South 2000 East, Salt Lake, Utah 84109, Research of Suzanne Dunbar, Name: Source materials noted in manuscript provided;, RE: Samson Dunbar.
He married 2nd, Sara Sash of Stoughton, intention Feb 1., in Braintree; FReb 16, 1765 in Stoughton. No children of this marriage recorded in Braintree or Stoughton, but he had a son Zebedee Dunbar by this marriage, who says in the History of Braintree, Vermont, came from Randolph, Massachusetts quite early, bought land in 1793 and had two children. He also had a daughter Susanna, of this mattirage, who married Sept 16, 1794 at Bridgewater to Jacob Tarbit/Tarbit/Talbot, an who as seen from the deposition of 1841 was born in Stoughton.
- [S740] Frederic Endicott, Vital Records of Stoughton, Canton and South Dorchester, Name: William Bense, Canton, Mass. 1896;, 180.
Page 21 The Intention of marriage between Samson Dunbar of Braintree & Sarah Sash of Stoughton entred Febry 16th 1765.
- [S735] Samuel Austin Bates, Ed., Vital Records of Braintree, Massachusets, 1643 to 1793, Name: Daniel H. Huxford, Randolph, Mass., 1886;, 2:255.
1765 Febry 1st Sampson Dunbar of this Town Sarah Sash of Stoughton. Mollatto.
- [S650] Suzanne Dunbar [dunbarfamily2@comcast.net]; 3111 South 2000 East, Salt Lake, Utah 84109, Research of Suzanne Dunbar, Name: Source materials noted in manuscript provided;, RE: Sampson Dunbar.
He married a 3rd tim to Rachael Rainard, intention July 24 1778 at Stoughton. A widow, Rachel Plato, and a person called Rachel Pomp later lived at his house.
- [S231] Materials sent by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, Dunbar v. Mitchell, Affidavit of Rachel Dunbar.
I, Rachel Dunbar of Stoughton in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, widow, being of lawful age, do depose testify and say, that Hannah Dunbar mother to Sarah Dunbar was brought from the Town of Bridgewater in teh Plymouth County to the Town of Stoughton in the County of Norfolk then Suffolk about three months prior before said Sarah was born, and the said Hannah mother to the said Sarah, being an Indian (by Nation) , and that the said Sarah was born at the house of my late husband, Sampson Dunbar in said Stoughton and that I was present at the time of her the said Sarah's birth, and the said Hannah with her husband Samuel Dunbar & sd Sarah, child of Hannah, went to live with Doctr Ephraim Wales in Randolph in s. County of Norfolk (then Suffolk) and they lived there upwards of a year and from thence they moved to the town of Braintree in Vermont State
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Stoughton, April 1815 Rachel X Dunbar
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Norfolk, ss. Stoughton, April 25th 1815
On the twenty second day of April in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, the above said deponent was examined and interrogated and sworn agreeable to the law, to the depositon aforesaid by her subscribed, taken at the request of James *** (attorney by law) for Sarah Dunbar, and to be used in an action of ejectment now pending between herself and Edward Mitchell, Jr. Before the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth of Massachusetts, next to be held in and for the County of Plymouth, and the adverse was notified agreeable to law and not present, the dponent being aged and so infirm as to be unable to travel and attend at the trial in the course of taking this deposion.
Benjamin Richards Justice of the Peace
On the back - Sup Jud Court April AD 1815 by adj. from Oct Term 1814 opened in Court & filed attest Joh. B. Thomas, Clerk
- [S740] Frederic Endicott, Vital Records of Stoughton, Canton and South Dorchester, Name: William Bense, Canton, Mass. 1896;, 150.
The intention of Marriage between Samson Dunbar and Rachal Rainard Both of Stoughton Entred with me the Subscriber July ye 24th 1778. George Crosman Town Clerk.
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Patience Crouch, b. Bef 05 Nov 1732, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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