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He was born on January 1764 at Londonderry into the privileged caste of Ireland, and was brought up under influences favorable to England. He was the son of Rev. Arthur and Anne (Wilson) Sampson.
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He was born on January 1764 at Londonderry into the privileged caste of Ireland, and was brought up under influences favorable to England. He was the son of Rev. Arthur and Anne (Wilson) Sampson.
He is said to have attended the University of Dublin, and in 1790 studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London.
He was admitted to the Irish bar and obtained a good practice. Experience and observation then brought him into the movement for political reform. He took the oath of the United Irishmen in open court, and in December 1796 presided over a meeting at Belfast which was called treasonable.
After the outbreak of war he collected information regarding the atrocities of the government troops. These activities and the false report that he held a major-general's commission in the French army led to his arrest and continued imprisonment without a trial. He was offered his release on condition that he would submit to official examination and then go into exile in some country at peace with England; and in order to save the life of a friend he accepted the offer.
He was sent to Portugal in 1799, and by that country to France. He remained there six years and then spent nearly a year in Hamburg. In 1806, he appeared in London with a passport from the British minister to Hamburg. He was at once arrested and sent at the expense of the British government to New York.
In America Sampson won prominence in the practice of law, the reporting of cases, and propagandist writing. He was admitted to the bar almost immediately after his arrival, and while practising turned his knowledge of stenography to account by publishing a dozen or more verbatim reports of cases which had attracted popular attention.
In 1813 he successfully interposed as amicus curiae to prevent a Catholic priest's being required to disclose secrets imparted to him in confession. To his report of the case, entitled The Catholic Question in America (1813), he appended a treatise on the doctrine of penance.
During the years 1825-30 he resided in Georgetown, D. C. , and appeared in several cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1807 he published Memoirs of William Sampson in the form of a series of letters to a friend. It was favorably received in America; a second edition, revised and enlarged, was published at Leesburg, Va. , in 1817; and a third edition, less complete, at London in 1832.
In 1823 he delivered an address before the New York Historical Society, which contained a violent and radical attack on certain barbarities in the common law, and a recommendation that the American people discard its undesirable features and preserve the best by codification.
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Though himself a Protestant, he helped to prosecute Orangemen who had attacked Catholic Irishmen in Greenwich Village, N. Y. , in 1824, and he defended Irishmen charged with rioting in Philadelphia in 1831.
He had brown hair and eyebrows, a high forehead, large nose, and oval face.
He married Grace Clarke in 1790 and had three children; he was survived by his widow and a daughter.