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Name: Thomas Hampton
Birth: 1744 Wilkes Co., NC
Death: 1817 Wilkes Co., NC
Father: Jacob Hampton (1724 - )
Mother:
Judah Judith Johnson (~1730 - )
Marriage: ~1770 Halifax Co., VA
Spouse: Abigail Laws
Birth: ~1756 Halifax, VA
Death:
Children:
Judith Hampton (~1769 - 1811)
William Turner Hampton (~1770 - 1852)
Nancy Hampton (~1773 - )
James Hampton (~1774 - )
Welcome William Hampton (~1775 - )
Jeremiah Hampton (~!780 - 1838)
Elizabeth "Polly" Hampton (1782 - 1863)
Jacob Hampton (1787 - )
Livingston Hampton (1789 - )
Thomas Hampton served in the American Revolution in North Carolina. The Daughters of the American Revolution shows: Hampton, Thomas, b. c. 1755, d. a. 8- -1817, NC, m. (1) Abigail Laws, Sol, CS, NC
The will of Thomas Hampton:
North Carolina February the 20th, 1817
Wilkes CountyIn the name of God, Amen.
I, Thomas Hampton, being in my sound sense of memory and calling to mind the shortness of time and the Certainty of Eternity, Do make my last will and Testament as follows to wit. 1st: That all my lawfull debts be punctually paid and 2nd: That my wife Abigail shall have one cow and calf (her choice out) of my stalk one bed of furnature and all the household furnatureas lonas she
remains my widow and at the expiration of that time my house hold furniture to be divided equally divided between my two daughters, Nancy and Judy. 3. I will bequeath to my two daughters, Nancy and Judy, one cow and calf each, one bed of furniture each. 4th I will bequeath to my sons, Welcome, Jeremiah, Livingston, Jacob, Turner and James, all my lands and consiments (?) to be equally divided between them and my daughters, 5th, My rifle gun to be my sons Livingston. 6th, I will bequeath to my little grandson, Jessie, Polly's Eldest son, fifty dollars out of what William Holeman is due and the rest to be appropriated to the seal of any wife (?) . 7th: My loving wife and my worthy friend John Brown, to be the executors of my Last will and testament in witness where of I have __??___ ??_____ Set my hand and seal of the day and year above written.teste:
John Brown
Thomas Farmer Jut.
hisThomas Hampton (seal)
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