Reverend
Thomas
Hampton
Born about in Jamestown, James City, Virginia
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of William Hampton Sr
and Joan (Hottens) Hampton
Husband of
Mary (Wade) Hampton
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 67
in Jamestown, Albemarle, Virginia [uncertain]
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Descendant of Joan (Hottens) Hampton and William Hampton Sr Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors.
Biography
Thomas Hampton was a Jamestown colonist.
Reverend Thomas Hampton was born on 16 April 1623 in England. He was the son of William Hampton and Alice Chew. [1] He was the minister of Hampton Parish, York County, Virginia from 1649-1650, Wilmington Parish, James City County from 1658-90. The name of his wife is unknown.
John Frederick Dorman writes a short biography for Reverend Thomas Hampton (1623 - 1690) son of William Hampton who resided in Kingston Parish and died after 28 June 1683. In the footnotes, there is a disclaimer that Reverend Thomas Hampton is not to be confused with another Reverend Thomas Hampton who served as a minister in Jamestown from 1640-1645 then in Hampton Parish of York County, Virginia in1646. The other Thomas Hampton died about 1647 and had no issue.[2] [3]Thomas died in 5 Jan 1647/8. [4]
His birthplace or baptism place was listed here previously as: St. Olave's, co. Surrey St. Katherine's-Next-The-Tower London St. Olave's East Smithfield, Middlesex, England. However, this seems to contain misnamed information and also needs a citation.
St Katharine's by the Tower; a medieval church and hospital next to the Tower of London. The establishment was founded in 1147; East Smithfield is is the name of a road in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London.
He died in 1690 in James City, Virginia or Jamestown, Virginia.
Sources
- ↑ Joseph Lyon Miller, M.D. A History of the Hampton Family of the Southern States. Being an account of the descendants of William Hampton. Hampfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. Texas Tech University, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P. Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004. p 248-9.
- ↑ Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume 1. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1981 - Registers of births, etc p 625 Google Books
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1857. p 200.
Tidewater Virginia Families Chapter 12: The Hampton Family (also Peatross Ancestors), pp. 317 - 321
Notes
If the following information is accurate and his birthdate is correct, Thomas was probably born in Virginia. The three older children were born before 1621. Early Immigrants to Virginia from the 1500s and 1600s General Text: HAMPTON, WILLIAM, (1586-1652) Came from London, England in the “Bona Nova” in 1620. Settled in Gloucester Co. VA. Married Joan ____, who came with 3 children in the “Abigail” in 1621.
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2. In the spring of 1623, Joanne gave birth to a son they called Thomas, their last child and the first Hampton to be born in America. In 1623, they lived in Elizabeth Cittye (now Hampton, VA). Therefore, he was not born in Jamestown or England.
3. This may better explain the two Rev. Thomas Hamptons: " This Rev. Thomas Hampton should not be confused with his uncle, Rev. Thomas Hampton, who was rector of the church at Jamestown and of a church in York County, from about 1630 until his death on Jan 5, 1647/48 in York County, where he is buried on King's Creek Swamp. In 1636, the uncle Rev. Thomas Hampton became a mentor to the nephew, Thomas. Probably no one had greater influence on young Thomas. He sent young Thomas to England to complete his education and for his ordination to the priesthood of the Episcopal church by the Bishop of London who had charge of ecclesiastical affairs in Virginia during the colonial period. Since he had no children of his own, he also made his nephew his heir. The younger Rev. Thomas Hampton was back in Virginia by 1645 when he married. "
4. Rev. Thomas Hampton's tenure at Wilmington Parish in James City County was one of the longest of any colonial minister in one parish. He died in James City County, not necessarily in "Jamestown" and certainly not in "Albemarle County."
5. * 1640 Dec: William Hampton received a grant for 400 acres in Isle of Wight county. * 1652 Sep 5: Rev. Thomas Hampton inherited his father's patent of 400 acres in Isle of Wight County. Records show that neither William Hampton nor his son, Rev. Thomas Hampton, ever lived in Isle of Wight. However, the Rev's son, Thomas Hampton (II) did live there, married there and died there in 1703.