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Dorcas Dodge was born on 11 February 1722.

Mary Dodge was born on 27 November 1728.

Gideon Dodge was born on 27 May 1725.

John Dodge was born on 6 January 1680.

Mary Dodge was born on 18 April 1682 in New Shoreham, Rhode Island. She died on 4 January 1685 at age 2 in New Shoreham, Rhode Island.

John Dodge was born on 3 January 1685.

Catherine Dodge was born on 17 March 1687.

David Dodge was born on 26 December 1691.

Sarah Dodge was born on 7 April 1694.

Elizabeth Dodge was born on 7 November 1695.

Alexander Dodge was born on 15 June 1699.

Ebenezer Dodge was born on 21 October 1687.

Josiah Dodge was born on 25 December 1690.

Dorcas Dodge was born on 16 May 1694.

Martha Bent was born in 1643.

Samuel Raymond was born on 18 May 1679.

Martha Raymond was born on 24 May 1681.

William Raymond, III, was born on 12 April 1685 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. He and Tabitha Edwards were married. He died on 1 March 1759 at age 73 in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut.

Margaret Rathbun was born on 17 January 1686.

Peter Bent was born on 14 April 1629.

William Bent was born on 24 October 1626.

Robert Bent was born on 10 January 1625.

Martha Blanchard was born on 24 September 1598 in Wayhill, Penton Grafton, Hampshire County, England. John Bent and she were married on 3 October 1623 in Penton Grafton, Hampshire, England. She died on 15 November 1679 at age 81 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was buried in November 1679 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay.

John Bent was born in November 1596 in Penton-Grafton, England. He and Martha Blanchard were married on 3 October 1623 in Penton Grafton, Hampshire, England. He died on 27 September 1672 at age 75 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was buried in September 1672 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay.

John Bent emigrated The Bent name appears in Hampshire from England as early as 1519. He came to America in April 1638 on the "Confidence." He settled in Sudbury. (NEHGS 150:142.) He had person sources.¹ He was christened on 20 November 1596 in Weyhill, Hampshire, England. He emigrated in 1638.

Abraham Sampson was born on 14 August 1614 in Campton, Bedfordshire, England. He and Sarah Nash were married. This marriage is unproven. He died about 1686 at age ~72 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

SAMSON, ABRAHAM-It had long been thought that Abraham Samson was a brother to 1620 Mayflower passenger Henry Samson, but in Robert Leigh Ward's first article shown under Henry Samson below, there is no mention of Abraham in Henlow parish records. However, in "Henry Sampson's Paternal Grandfather" (TAG 56:141), Ward shows Henry's father James had a brother Laurence, who married Mary Shabery, and among their children was an Abraham Samson born at Campton, Bedfordshire, 14 August 1614, who would thus be a good candidate for the Plymouth Colony Abraham Samson. Abraham first appears in Plymouth records as a resident of Duxbury who was presented on 4 December 1638 for striking John Washburn, Jr. at the meeting house on the Lord's day (PCR 1:107). In 1646/47 he was fined for being drunk, and in 1648 he was made a surveyor of the highways for Duxbury (PCR 2:111, 124). He became a freeman in 1654 (PCR 3:48). He was one of the former servants and ancient freemen given land at Saconnet Neck in 1662 (PCR 4:18). In 1662/63 he was fined ten shillings for being drunk (PCR 4:33). Mrs. Barclay, "The Early Sampsons," TAG 28:1, shows that there is no record of his death, nor of the births of his children. Since Henry Samson named his children in his will, there is a strong assumption that the other Samsons of the right age in Duxbury must be Abraham's sons, and these include Samuel, George, Abraham, and Isaac, all of whom left descendants. Clarence Almon Torrey, "A Nash-Sampson-Delano-Howland Problem," TAG 15:165, gives indirect evidence to show that Abraham Samson had by his first wife (who was a daughter of Samuel Nash, q.v.) daughters Elizabeth, who married Philip 2 Delano, and Mary, who married Samuel 2 Howland, and he may have had other daughters. Torrey showed that Abraham's son Samuel was also by his first wife, but the other sons were probably by an unidentified second wife.

Source: Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton

Accordingly, I've not listed the parents of Esther Nash and am looking for the second wife, who would have been the mother of George.

Supposedly, Abraham married Sarah Nash, daughter of Lt. Samuel Nash and Elizabeth Seymour, in 1645. She was born in 1624 and died in 1645, according to Family Data Collections.

A Hester/Esther Nash, b. abt. 1642, married, 2nd, John Soule. Her first marriage was to Samuel Sampson in 1678 in Duxbury.. She died 12 Sep 1735 (New England Marriages prior to 1700).