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Joseph Hampton BIRTH 1762 Loudoun County, Virginia, USA DEATH 1803 (aged 40–41) Fauquier County, Virginia, USA BURIAL Body lost or destroyed, Specifically: Probably burried with his parents at the farm leased for life Wankopin branch, Shelburne Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176120567/joseph-hampton
Children Photo Elizabeth Hampton Sharp 1789–1875
Jeremiah Hampton 1792–1854
Photo Susannah E. Hampton Weeks 1796–1890
Photo Joseph Hampton 1798–1859
Photo Alford Hampton 1802–1876
Info from FindaGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176120567/joseph-hampton
Soldier in the Revolution
born between 1758-1762 (parents married 1757, lease 1762 below)
died between 1802-1803 (Alfred born, will proved see below)
some trees have him born later and serving in the war as young as 10 years old. This is obviously incorrect.
Son of Jeremiah Hampton born 1717 Loudoun Va. and Rebecca Elizabeth (Harrison) Dent Hampton born 1733 St. Mary's, MD, married 1757 Fairfax Va.
Grandson of Joseph 1698-1739 and Hester (Simpson) 1700-1745 Hampton.
Ancestry: William Hampton (immigrant) born Middlesex Stafford England sailed on the Bona Nova to Virginia 1620 with his wife Joane Hottens.
Brother of Elizabeth and Jeremiah Jr. Hampton
1/2 brother of Nancy 1753- (Aaron Thomas), John and Susan 1757- (George Tole) Dent
Married Mary Hathaway April 9, 1787 Fauquier, VA.
children:
Elizabeth ( William Harrell, Samuel Sharp)
Susannah (Lewis Lunsford Weeks)
Alfred (Huldah Cochran)
John 1788-1870 (Sarah Weeks)
Lawson 1790-
Jeremiah 1792-1854 (Pamelia Worster)
Joseph 1797-1859 (Judith Owens)
Francis 1798-
December 1, 1762: Bryan Fairfax Gent. lease to Jeremiah Hampton in consideration of rents and covenants, farm let parcel of land being in Loundoun Co. on the Wankopin branch & containing 150 acres & 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 December 1, 1766 and thenceforth yearly the sum of Four pounds current money of VA & 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.
Witnesses:. Micajah Powell, Craven Peyton, George West, Thomas Dawson.
Will proved February 28, 1803, Fauquier VA.
Mary re-married to Phillip Cooksey Jr. born about 1757 Charles MD, died about 1836 Fauquier, father of 8 children. He was a widower of Mary Adams who died 1816.
step-children:
Levin Cooksey 1780
Josiah Cooksey 1782
William Cooksey 1784
Benjamin Cooksey 1787
Sarah Cooksey 1790 (Oden)
James Cooksey 1794
Elias Cooksey 1794
Eleanor Cooksey 1812
After Phillip's death Mary lived with her step-son Elias Cooksey in Rappahannock Va. In the matter of Philip Cooksey's estate, his son William Cooksey filed suit against the other heirs 1839. http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CFN=061-1...
Mary was awarded $1200 dower and moved to Indiana before 1850 with a freed slave, Sarah Cooksey. She lived there with her youngest child Alfred Hampton and his family where she died 1854.
source (mostly): Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Gravesite Details
Some have his parents as Joseph and Mary Martha Gunnell Hampton which is incorrect. 1. The lease proves his father is Jeremiah. 2. He is not named in Joseph's will. 3. He is on tax records with Jeremiah of Loudoun VA.
1765 |
December 22, 1765
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Fauquier County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1788 |
1788
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Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
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1789 |
January 1789
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Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
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1792 |
1792
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Fauquier, Virginia
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1796 |
1796
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1798 |
1798
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Virginia, United States
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1801 |
1801
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Fauquier, VA
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1803 |
February 28, 1803
Age 37
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Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
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1983 |
August 5, 1983
Age 37
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