Samuel Black (d. 1782) was a cabinet maker in Tyrrell and later Chowan County. In 1777 he became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy, with one other member of the plot, Jonathan Adams, claiming that Black was a warden, or leader in the movement. According to John Stewart, Black was the one who recruited prominent Bertie County judge William Brimage into the plot. Black had access to Brimage, as he was Brimage's stepfather-in-law. It is likely that after the plot was discovered Black was questioned and asked to give a deposition, but if he did so, it has not been located. Black later served as security on a bond for Thomas Harrison, who had to appear before the Court of Oyer & Terminer at Edenton to testify about his involvement in the Gourd Patch Conspiracy.