Sampson County was organized in 1784 and taken from neighboring county
of Duplin. Land from neighboring Wayne County and New Hanover counties
would be annexed later. The settlers were Scotch-Irish immigrants from
North Ireland, many of who came to the colony of North Carolina under
the protection and inducements of Henry McCulloch, a wealthy London
merchant. The community of Taylors Bridge, located about halfway between
Clinton and Harrells in lower Sampson County (at the time Duplin
County), was one of the earliest European settled areas of the county,
with pioneer families living there as early as the 1730s or 1740s. The
Swiss from New Bern came into this area during the mid-eighteenth
century. The county was named after Lieutenant General John Sampson,
the first mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Indexes to Wills and Estates
Images of Sampson County Wills and Estates
- Bass, Joshua
- Bell, Robert
- Blackburn, William
- Bradshaw, John
- Brown, Arthur
- Bunting, David
- Buttar, Robert
- Fisher, John
- Frederick, James
- Fryers, Jonathan
- Gaines, Batholomew
- Gates, John
- Gates, Mary Ann
- Godwin, Nathan
- Gregory, Lott
- Grigory, Lott
- Henderson, William
- Ivey, Thomas
- Jackson, Richard
- Johnson, Joshua
- Kennada, Patrick
- Lanier, John
- Lee, Burchet
- Matthew, Joel
- Merrit, Gabriel
- Peterson, Aaron
- Register, Joseph
- Ridgeon, Matthew
- Royal, Owen
- Stevens, John
- Strickland, Molly
- Thornton, Berry
- Thornton, Nathaniel
- Thornton, Susannah
- Treadwell, John
- Williamson, Wright
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