Jeremiah Hampton (1717 - abt. 1791)

Born 1717 in Fairfax, VA

Husband of Rebecca Elizabeth (Harrison) Hampton — married after 1757 in Fairfax, Virginia

Husband of Elizabeth (Harrison) Hampton — married 1760 in Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died about 1791 at about age 74 in Shelburne Parish, Loudoun, Virginia, United States

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Biography

• Jeremiah Hampton was born in ~1718. His father was Joseph Hampton (~1700 - 1739).

• Jeremiah married Rebecca Elizabeth Harrison (1733 - >1776) in 1757 in Fairfax County, VA.

Their children were...

1. Elizabeth (Hampton) Taylor (1762 - ~1857)
2. Joseph Hampton (~1760- ~1802
3. Jeremiah Jr. Hampton Jr. (1766 - 1834).

• Marriage 2 Jeremiah Hampton b: 1717•Married: BET 17 Aug 1757 AND 1 Dec 1760 in Fairfax County, Virginia

• Note: Widowed Elizabeth Dent married Jeremiah Hampton before 1 December 1762. That is the date of a deed (lease for 3 lives) for 150 acres in Loudoun Co., VA. The 3 people mentioned were Jeremiah Hampton, his wife Elizabeth, and their son Joseph^[1]

Estate of George Dent

• 1757 Minute Book 1756-63 Pt.1, p.155 (August 17, 1757)
• '" Fairfax County, Virginia"
• Elizabeth Dent made oath that George Dent dec'd.departed this life without making any will as far as she knows or believes and on her motion and giving security , a certificate is granted her for obtaining Letters of Adminstration of the said Decendents estate in due form. Elizabeth Dent, Grafton Kizb, JohnRhodes, & Jeremiah Hampton, acknowledged a bond for the faithful adminstration of the estate of George Dent dec'd. which is ordered to be recorded. Ordered that

• 1764, Jan 17 "Minute Book 1763-65, pg 67,"
• Fairfax County, VA'

• Ordered that Jeremiah Hampton & Elizabeth his wife Admx of Geo. Dent ---Decd be summoned to appear at the next Court to give to T Rhodes & Grafton Kirk, Counter Secys, to deliver them the estate.

• 1 Dec 1762 - Deed abstracts of Loudoun Co. Deed Book C (Part II). At a court held 12

• April 1763 Â… Indenture acknowledged Â… ordered to be recorded.

pp. 479-481 Indenture made first day December 1762 between Bryan FAIRFAX of county Fairfax Gent. of one part and Jeremiah HAMPTON of Loundoun County....Â… in consideration of rents and covenants.... farm let parcel of land being in county Loundoun on the Wankopin branch Â… containing 150 acres Â… to have and hold during natural lives of Jeremiah HAMPTON, Elizabeth his wife, and Joseph Hampton their son and longest liver of them.... paying on or before 1st day Dec 1766 and thenceforth yearly the sum of Four pounds current money of Virginia Â… provided Jeremiah HAMPTON within five years do plant at least 100 apple trees thirty feet distant and keep them well pruned and within a good fence and also cause to be built a dwelling house twenty feet long and sixteen feet wide and other such houses as his way of Husbandry may require....

• Presence Micajah POWELL,

Craven Peyton, George WEST, Thomas DAWSON,^[2]

Jeremiah was born in 1717. He passed away about 1791.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Nae X.
2. ↑ http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.loudoun/1656.1672/mb.ashx

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&id=I53574

• http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.loudoun/1656.1672/mb.ashx

Footnotes

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Nae X for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Nae and others.
• Wife Elizabeth's petition for William's pension for service in Am. Rev. VA service R10414; names her father, Jeremiah Hampton