Howe, Sampson, Jr., 1716 - 1797

Samson Howe, son of Samson Howe and Alice Perley, was a farmer from Thompson Parish, Killingly, Connecticut.  He removed to the East Society of Middletown at Indian Hill sometime between 1745 and 1748, where his parcel gave him access to the Connecticut River.  In 1754, along with a number of East Society residents, Howe petitioned Middletown authorities for an access road on which they could move lumber to the ships on the river. In 1756, he petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly for permission to buy Wangunk land.  Howe was first lieutenant in Capt. Timothy Hierlihy’s Seventh Company of First Regiment in 1758.  M. V. B. Perley, “James Howe of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants,” The Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. LIV (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1918), 45-46, 148-149.  “The 1754 Petition for Indian Hill Avenue,” Portland Historical Society Newsletter (Summer 2009), 3.