When Robert Samples was born in 1740, in Augusta, Hampshire, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Samples, was 46 and his mother, Susannah Wilkins, was 50. He married Abigail Moore about 1765, in Augusta, Hampshire, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 18 July 1822, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States, at the age of 82.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
English: variant of Sample , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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