Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń, Crown of Poland, which 22 years later, after his birth, as a result of the Second Partition of Poland, became a city under the rule of the King of Prussia (Prussian Poland), to Jan Jacobsen Linde, a master locksmith and member of the city council who had immigrated from Sweden, and Anna Barbara, née Langenhann.
Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń, which later became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after the Second Partition of Poland. He came from a family that included his father Jan Jacobsen Linde, a skilled locksmith and local official who had moved from Sweden, and his mother Anna Barbara, originally from Langenhann.