Marion Co TOC

1 Andrew HAMPTON

Birth: 1713/1715, Cecil County, Maryland

Death: abt 8 Oct 1805, Gilbert Town, Rutherford County, NC

Father: Noah HAMPTON (1693-1775)

Mother: Sarah (~1693->1744)

1 NOTE:

Spouse: Sarah

Birth: abt 1717, VA

Death: 1748

Children: Ezekiel (1734-1811)

Ephraim (1737-1813)

Zachariah (~1745-1771)

1.1 Ezekiel HAMPTON Sr.

Birth: 1734, Orange County, VA

Death: 1811, Jack's Creek, Yancey Co., NC

1 Ezekiel HAMPTON Sr./Sr.

Birth: 1734, Orange County, VA

Death: 1811, Jack's Creek, Yancey Co., NC

Father: Andrew HAMPTON (1713-~1805)

Mother: Sarah (~1717-1748)

1 NOTE 10 Aug 1760 This is the earliest date found in basic or primary records citing one Ezekiel Hampton. Traditional accounts have been more difficult to find. On 10 Aug 1760 Granville County, NC land records show a deed of gift of 200 acres to Ezekiel Hampton. The land was on the headwaters of the Tarr River, today near the county seat of Oxford, NC seat of Granville County, NC. Granville was formed in 1746. The county then was just south of the Roanoke River. Today it is on the border of VA just south of Clarksville, VA. The 1760 gift deed was from the father of Ezekiel, then Capt. Andrew Hampton (ca 1713-1805). The consideration recorded in the deed - "in consideration for the natural love and affection which he doth bear unto his son Ezekiel and for the better support and maintenance of him, --". On the same date and for the same consideration, Andrew Hampton by gift deed gave son Ephraim Hampton 400 acres, being part of a larger tract granted to Andrew Hampton on 11 Mar 1760, "on the south side of Tarr River at the Griggs Corner," in Granville Counrty, NC.

From the valley, Ezekiel probably moved with his father who was on land records in Brunswick County, Virginia by the year 1739-40. By 3 Mar 1746, the father, Andrew Hampton was selling in Lunenburg County, VA, the tract bought in Brunswick. Lunenburg had been formed from Brunswick. The land records in Lunenburg for 3 March 1746, show the sale of land, with the court ordering 2 justices to go to Sarah to get her acknowledgment of the sale, because. "Sarah the wife of said Andrew Hampton, cannot conveniently travel to our County Court of Lunenburg to make acknowledgement of the said conveyance.".

This Sarah ________ Hampton too ill to travel to the courthouse on 3 Mar 1746, was by best evidence the mother of Ezekiel, Ephraim, a brother, Zachariah Hampton (ca 1745-1781) and possibly a brother David Hampton.

By 1749 the father Andrew Hampton shows on land records in North Carolina and additional accounts has him married that year a second time to Catherine Hyder in North Carolina. The eldest son of the second marriage was Jonathan Hampton (1751-1843), executor of the 1805 Will of the elder Andrew Hampton. By most accounts the old Andrew Hampton had 19 children in two families. Ezekiel and fifteen half brothers and sisters, and apparently his son Andrew Hampton Jr. (1765-1861) was the only one to turn north into Virginia. 29 Dec 1760 Ezekiel and Ephraim Hampton show as witnesses to the Will of Isaac Bledsoe in Johnston County, NC. Johnston County adjoined Granville County. Whether the Bledsoe family was related to the Hampton family isn't known.

The wife of Ezekiel Hampton is known as Jenny or Jane as shown in land records. Their son, Andrew Hampton (1765-1 861) who came to the New River area in VA about 1785, by traditional accounts, named his daughter Jane Hampton. This Grayson County Andrew before leaving NC had married the widow Sarah Griggs. Sarah was the widow of John Griggs and had a small daughter named Tilithia Griggs who came to the area that later became Grayson County in 1793. John Griggs was the son mentioned in the 1760 Will in Granville County for old Minus Griggs, and his estate settlement is recorded in Rowen County, N C for 1778.

15 August 1765 Granville County NC deed records the sale by Ezekiel Hampton of 50 acres and 26 hogs to Ephraim Hampton (his brother), for fifteen pounds current money of Virginia and one shilling of proclamation money. Ezekiel's recorded livestock mark was a crop in the left ear and an oval slope in the right ear. Open ranges for livestock mandated recorded marks. The above deed was witnessed by Lemender Harris and her husband Robert Harris who, by his oath proved the deed for record.

About 1763, the brother Ephraim Hampton had married the daughter of Lemender and Robert Harris, the daughter was named Lemender also.

20 August 1765 Ezekiel Hampton and his wife Jenny, sold 130 acres to William Jones for 40 pounds of Virginia currency. The tract in Granville was described as on the north side of Indian field Creek. This deed was witnessed by one John Hampton, who in May 1765 had bought of Andrew Hampton, a tract on the south side the Indian Field Creek. This John Hampton was probably a cousin to Ezekiel.

25 March 1766 Ezekiel was witness in Granville to the deed and sale by his father Andrew Hampton, 200 acres to George Boyer. 10 January 1767 Ezekiel got 200 acres in Granville from his father Andrew Hampton for the sum of 50 pounds cash money to him in hand paid.

1769 Granville tax records show Ezekiel Hampton with one taxable, probably himself, wife and minor children not taxable.

1771 Granville militia records show Zekiel Hampton in company of Capt. Wm. Bueford.

22 Feb 1773 Granville deeds show Ezekiel Hampton and wife Jane sell 200 acres to one Samuel Adams for 100 pounds of proclamation money. In the August court of 1774, the deed was acknowledged by Ezekiel and ordered to be recorded, while in the same time the wife Jane was privately examined by John Young Esq.. She relinquished her right of dower to the land "by this deed conveyed" . The court gave the wife consideration. Evidence suggests that about this time Ezekiel and family removed from Granville further west to dairy at the Yankee River in balloting County NC.

The American revolution was not far away. The American, Army was established 14 June 1775. The Zekiel Hampton took the oath of allegiance to NC in the Rowen County court at Salisbury.

Having been ordered into court along with some 200 other residents of the County who had neglected or refused to appear before the justices of their respective districts on the day by them advertised. Minus Griggs was on the list shown about and he was also appointed to administrator the estate of his deceased brother John Griggs, by court order on the oath of one John Hampton to the effect that Sarah Griggs, widow of John Griggs deceased, relinquishes her right of administrator to the estate of the deceased.

No evidence has been found to support some traditional accounts that have the maiden name of Sarah Griggs to have been Minah. In Granville and on records with the Hampton family one does find the family name as Minor. One John Minor in 1778, had married Mary Hampton, a granddaughter of the elder Andrew Hampton.

Ezekiel Hampton shows on the Rowen County NC tax list with a valuation of 200 pounds, in the district of Capt. Eakle. One John Hampton was in the same district, and in neighboring districts the names of William, John, David, and Will Hampton show. Also in the same area at this time the name of Guthridge Garland shows. On 6 September 1778 in Rowen, he had married Bridget Hampton, born about 1757 by Garland family records. Ezekiel had been one surety at the marriage and Bridget named a son Ezekiel Garland. She was no doubt a daughter of a Ezekiel and sister to the Grayson County Andrew Hampton. The Garland family was in Tennessee by 1785 to work. Etheridge Garland was a constable. The 1850 U.S. census for Grayson County shows Griggs Hampton born in Tennessee. Possibly his parents Andrew and Sarah Hampton were visiting sister Bridget Garland at the time of Griggs Hampton's birth.

7 Oct 1760 The unrecorded Will of one Minus Griggs in Granville County, NC was witnessed by Andw Hampton, Jaret, Ephraim Hampton, and William Borry, Jurat. The Griggs land was adjacent to the land given Ephraim Hampton earlier that year, and the Griggs Will named a wife Jane, sons John and Minus Griggs, and provided for daughters without naming them. The Griggs land had been obtained by grant 25 Oct 1753, from the Right Honorable Earl Granville. Granville by direct grant from the King of England, once held about half of the land in present day North Carolina. The Griggs land was adjacent to the Hampton Lands, and was in the Parish of St. Johns, which was divided 20 Sep 1753 to form a new Granville Parish, and Andrew Hampton was then named as one of the 12 Vestrymen of the new Parish. A local map of the Granville area for that time period shows a Hampton Creek and Adcock Creek at the headwaters of the Tarr River.

In 1754, Captain Andrew Hampton commanded a militia unit in Granville. His Lieutenant was John Adcock and his son Ephraim was an Ensign in the company.

The exact date of birth for Ezekiel Hampton is not known.. The arbitrary date ca 1735 would give him an age of about 25 years at the time his father gave him the land. His Will was probated in 1811 in Buncombe County, NC. The date of the father Andrew Hampton's birth is not known. He was given the date of 1713, to accomodate the first land record of 3 Oct 1734, in the Shenandoah Valley.

On Oct 3, 1734, on the Orange County, VA Land Records, the father Andrew Hampton shows as a joint tenent with Benjamin Borden and David Griffith on a grant of 1122 acres west of the Shenandoah, today in West Virginia near Summit Point. Ezekiel Hampton was probably born in the Valley where his father was on land by 1734, and was appointed Constable in 1737. The joint patentee Borden was from New Jersey, where earlier land transactions show between older Bordens and older Hamptons.

In 1760, when Ezekiel Hampton got his land by gift deed, the population of Philadelphia was about 23,000. The largest city in the Colonies; Thomas Jefferson was a student at the College of William and Mary; and that was the year that Canada fell to the British.

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2. 1850 Census Yancey County, NC
3. 1840 Census Yancey County, NC
4. Hampton Family History, American Genealogical Research Institute
5. The Hamptons In America, 1790-1998, Halburts 19989
6. Toe River Valley Heritage-North Carolina Vol. I
7. Toe River Valley Heritage – North Carolina Vol II
8. Toe River Valley Heritage – North Carolina Vol III
9. Cherokee County, KS Genealogical-Historical Society, Columbus, KS
10. 1860 Census, Marion County, Arkansas