Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sam” in chapter 8 of Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register:

...ich was long preserved in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, but which is now in the Massachusetts Archives:— Dear son, Since the first intimation I had from my cousin Sam : when you was here with us, touching the number and nature of your debts, I conceived and concluded the consequents to be marvellous desperate in the view of reason, in truth unavoidable and yet uns...
Max. Freq. Min. Freq.
Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
John Ston Sam 29 29 1 1 0 user votes
Sam 29 0 11 0 0 user votes
S. Sam 14 0 0 0 0 user votes
Broa Sam 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
C. S. Sam 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
Uucle Sam 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. C. S. Sam 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Darling Broa Sam 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Doyle Sam 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
G. S. Sam 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Neeson Sam 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Vaden Sam 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Old Fogy Sam 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Timothy Bigelow Josiah Sam 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.