Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Sampson Penley
- Aft 1687-
Name Sampson Penley [1] Birth of Purpooduck, now Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine 
[2] Gender Male Death Aft Apr 1687 [2] Person ID I47876 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 2 Jul 2026
Family 
Rachel d. Aft Dec 1688 Children + 1. Mary Penley Family ID F27769 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jul 2026
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Notes - A Samson Penley married, at Plymstock, Devon on 29 Oct 1639, a woman called "Margaret" Standon by the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (citation details below). Her name is transcribed as "Rachaell Standon" on familysearch.org, and to our unskilled eye, both readings are equally plausible and implausible. The original register is here, and we would welcome a more experienced paleographer's view.
The GDMN does not state that this couple were definitely the parents of Sampson Penley of early Maine, although John C. Brandon's 1998 article (citation details below) collects evidence that the latter Sampson Penley was from the vicinity of Plymouth, Devon, of which Plymstock is a suburb.
- A Samson Penley married, at Plymstock, Devon on 29 Oct 1639, a woman called "Margaret" Standon by the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (citation details below). Her name is transcribed as "Rachaell Standon" on familysearch.org, and to our unskilled eye, both readings are equally plausible and implausible. The original register is here, and we would welcome a more experienced paleographer's view.
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Sources - [S9248] John C. Brandon, "Four Early Immigrants to Maine and New Hampshire: Hercules Hunking, Arthur Gill, Sampson Penley, and Thomas Stanford." The American Genealogist 73:223, 1998.
- [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939.
- [S9248] John C. Brandon, "Four Early Immigrants to Maine and New Hampshire: Hercules Hunking, Arthur Gill, Sampson Penley, and Thomas Stanford." The American Genealogist 73:223, 1998.