Sampson Knowlton died in 1777. Sampson Knowlton was a child of Thomas Knowlton and Anna Keyes of Ashford, Connecticut. The published Knowlton genealogy records his birth on February 8 and death on September 10. He was one of two children in their household who died young. His father, commander of Knowlton’s Rangers, was killed at Harlem Heights in 1776, a year before Sampson’s death. The family record gives no cause of his death or detailed account of his short childhood. The available account does not establish a detailed sequence of final symptoms, treatment, or bedside attendance.