Samp'sames {^af^i\pdpt]c v.r.'Slai-ixl/aKijQ; Yulg. Latiipsaats, Samsames), a name whicli occurs in the list of those to whom the Romans are said to have sent letters in favor of the Jews (1 Mace, xv, 23). The name is probably not that of a sovereign (as it appears to be taken in the A. V.), but of a place, which Grimm iden- tifies with Sainsint, on the coast of the Black Sea, be- tween Sinope and Trebizond.
Sampson, Ezra, a Congregational minister, was born at Middleborough, Mass., Feb. 12, 1749. He grad- uated at Yale College, 1773, and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Plympton, ]Mass., Feb., 1775. He also • ofticiated as chaplain in the Revolutionary army, and was settled at Hudson, N. Y., 1796. While there he became as- sociated with Rev. Harry Crosswell in the editorship of The Balance, one of the first literary journals in the United States (1801-4). He edited for a year (1804-5) the Connecticut Vonrant, and became judge of Columbia County in 1814. He died in New V<irk City, Dec. 12, 1823. He was the author of Beauties of the Bible (1802) •.—Sham Patriot Unmasked (1803):— rAe His- toricul Dictionai-y (1804): — The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Men (1817, 1855). See Spragtic. A nnals of the American J'ulpit, ii, 122.
Sampson, Francis S., D.D., an ciiiiucnt I'rcsliytcrirm divine, was born near Dover Jlills, Goochland Co.,
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Va., ill Nov., 1814. At the age of sixteen he was placeil in the family of liis uncle, the Kev. Tliornton Kogers, of Albemarle. Finding himself now in a re- ligious atmosphere, he was induced to seek earnestly the salvation of his soul, made a profession of religion, and became a member of the Church in Charlottesville, Aug. 13, 1831. He graduated at the University of A'irginia in 1836 ; subsequently studied theology at the Union Theological Seminary of Virginia; and, on the resignation of Prof. Ballantine, in the spring of 1838, was appointed teacher of Hebrew, and Irom tliat time continued to perform other duties of the Oriental department; was licensed by the East Hanover Presby- tery in Oct., 1839, and ordained as an evangelist by the same presbytery in Oct., 1841. In the simimer of 1848 he visited Europe, spending his time chiefly at the uni- versities of Halle and Berlin in the prosecution of his Oriental studies, and returned in August, 1849. In Oct., 1848, he was elected professor of Oriental literature and languages in the Union Theological Seminary, Vir- ginia, and in 1849 received the degree of D.D. from Hampden Sidney College. He died April 9, 1854. In 1851 Dr. Sampson delivered, at the University of Vir- ginia, a lecture on The A ulhority of the Sacred Canon, and the Integritu of the Sacred Text, which was after- wards published, in connection with the series of which it formed a part; and in 1850 there was published, under the editorial supervision of his successor. Dr. Dabney, .4 Critical Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. One of Dr. Sampson's most striking and valuable traits was his methodical industry. "That whatever is worth doing is worth doing well; that each task must be done with one's might in just so much time as is needed to do it per- lectly, and no more; that no task is to be left till all is perfected which can be done to atlvantage — these were the rules of working which he carried with him from the time of his boyhood to the school, the university, the study, and the lecture-room." He was eminently conscientious in everything. Family prayers were, in his house, no hurried, unmeaning form. The whole air and tone of the exercise showed deep, conscientious sin- cerity and earnestness. As an instructor. Dr. Robert L. Dabney says of him, " I hesitate not to say that, as a master of the art of communicating knowledge, he was, in my view, unrivalled ;" and again, " One of the foun- dation-stones of his success was his indisputable schol- arship. No man ever passed through one of his classes without a profound and admiring conviction of this." See Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, iv, 795; Allibone, Diet, of British and A merican A uthors, s. v. (J. L. S.)
Sampson, Henry, a Nonconformist divine, was born in Nottinghamshire, and studied at Leyden and Padua. He was ejected at the Reformation, and sub- sequently became an eminent London physician. He died in 1705. He published an edition of Porter on Dioine Grace, and prepared materials for a history of Nonconformists.
Sampson, Richard, I>L.D., Bishop of Chichester in 15o(j. He was transferred to Coventry and Lichfield, 1542-43, and died at Eccleshall, 15.54. He is the author of Commentary on Romans, etc. (Lond. 154(5, Svo) : — liiijii Sarelli (4to).
Sampson, Thomas, a Puritan divine, was born (according to Stry|)e) at Playford, in Suffolk, 1517, and educated at Oxford. He was ordained i>y archbishop Crainiier and bishop Ridley; was ctiiiplain in the anny of Lord Russell. In 1551 lu' was [jrcfcrrcil to tlie rei- torj- of All-hallows, London, and, in 1554. to the deaiuTy of Chichester. During the reign of Mary he resided in Slrasburg. Returning home on the accession of Eliza- beth, he refused the bishopric of Norwich, because dis- satisfied with the nature of the office. In Sept., 15()(), he was made prebendary of Durham, and in Michael- mas term, 1.501, he was installed dean of Christ Church, Oxford. So open and zealous was he against clerical