Career
The leading prizefight reporter of the period, Pierce Egan, describing the Young Dutch Sam"s emergence into the ring: The anxious moment had now arrived, and all the peepers were on the stretch to view the condition of the mentor On peeling, Sam appeared as fine as a star laughing and full of confidence. In short, SAM might be compared to a handsome game cock, crowing almost to himself, that victory was in his grasp.
(Egan,Book of Sports, 1832) His father, Dutch Sam, also boxed during the pioneer era, and is a fellow Hall of Famer.