Name: Rev. Thomas Hampton
Birth: 16 Apr 1623 Elizabeth City County, VA
Death:  Oct 1690 Jamestown, James City, VA

Father: William Hampton Sr.
Mother: Joan Hottens

Spouse: unknown

Children:    
Capt. John Hampton (1650 - )
Thomas Hampton Jr. (1654 - 1713)
Mary H. Hampton (1648 - )

From "The Hampton Family of the Southern States, 1568 -1916; being an account of the descendants of William Hampton of Hampfield, Gloucester County, Virginia", by Joseph Lyon Miller, M. D.

Doubtless Thomas Hampton (the younger) was sent back "home" to complete his education for his ordination to the priesthood of the Episcopal  church by the Bishop of London who had charge of the ecclesiastical affairs in Virginia during the colonial period. If this be true he was back in Virginia in1653 as he begins to appear in the Land Grant records in that year.

April 6th, 1653 "Mr. Thomas Hampton" had a grant of five hundred and fifty acres of land in that part of James City County, which later became New Kent County, and still later King William, for the transportation into Virginia of eleven persons. March 8, 1658, "Mr. Thomas Hampton, Clerke" of James City County had a patent for four hundred acres of land on Tiascum Creek, James City County; and on the 11th October same year a patent for seven hundred acres to include the five hundred and fifty granted him in 1652. In addition to these grants of public land, Rev. Mr. Hampton inherited three hundred and fifty acres of the home plantation of his father in Gloucester County; and probably acquired other land by private purchase in James City County where he spent all of his life after he became of age. . . .

All the years of Mr. Hampton’s ministry seem to have been spent in the one county of James City, where he is mentioned first in 16542, and last in a list of ministers in 1680, at which time he had charge of two of the parishes in this county (Colonial Records of Virginia published in1874).

According to the Genealogy of the Mays family and related families to 1929 inclusive by Samuel Edward Mays, Plant City, Fla., 1929:.

Rev. Thomas Hampton, born in America, wife not known. Was minister at James Citie in 1644 and was on of the most prominent ministers of his time in that part of Virginia. On a mutilated tombstone near Williamsburg his tomb may be deciphered, on which is written  “Rev. Thomas Hampton, Rector of this Parish, 1647.”   He was prbably in charge of one of the churches which closed when the first church at Williamsburg was built.

This page was prepared by Charles Hartley.