Family History

 
John Hampton's origins

John HAMPTON was born about 1640 in Scotland. He died on 23 Jan 1702 in Freehold, Monmouth Co., NJ, USA. 

Family origins

First to New Jersey. John Hampton of Elphingstone, East Lothian emigrated to New Jersey in 1683 under a contract from the Jersey Proprietors as an Overseer. This leads to his connection to John Barclay. John Barclay was of Ury / Urie, Dunnottar Parish, Kincardine County, Scotland, and was the first Governor of East Jersey in absentia. One of the surviving Quaker records of Scotland is the Record Book of Urie in which a John Hampton is mentioned. Urie / Ury is in Dunnottar Parish which adjoins Kineff Parish where a John Hampton was baptised as mentioned below. Hence his migration under the Jersey Proprietors seems to connect the John Hampton of Elphingstoun with the John Barclay of Urie, hence connecting the migrant John Hampton to the area around Dunnottar, Kincardine County.

 Urie as being Ury House about 1 mile NW of Stonehaven a shown on the 1865 OS map.

There is a baptism of a Jhone Hamptone at Kineff, Kincardine County, on the 1 Oct 1643, son of Andre or Andro (Andrew) Hamptone & Ketterine Scherreff. Kineff  is about 7 miles south of Dunnottar.

The possible father of John, Andrew Hampton died in 1674. A testament dative is recorded for him. Unfortunately testament dative's are not wills but an administration and inventory of someone who died intestate & hence do not name beneficiaries (as distinct from a testament testamentar where a will was made). However it does show that Andrew Hampton was from Glaslaw within the parish of Dunnottar, the same parish where Urie is located, and on the opposide side (South side) of Stonehaven, both being only 2 miles apart. And Kineff, where a Jhone Hamptone was baptised is the immediate Parish to the South, only a few miles from Urie and Glaslaw.

Marriage to Catherine Cloudlsey

One of his marriages was to Ketterine / Catherine Cloudsley in 1675 at Alexander Hamilton's House in Drumbouy, Scotland (probably his first marriage if Janet is not his daughter). The Drumbouy house was Alexander Hamilton's, and is also known as Drumboy or Drumbowy. It is shown on the OS map of 1858 as Drumboy about 2 1/2 miles SE of East Kilbride (as described below), and about 2 miles NW of Shawtonhill where the Quaker or Friends burial ground was located. The location is confirmed as follows :-

• 'The Beginning of Quakerism' by William C. Braithwaite.
  As early as 1653 meetings were kept by one Alexander Hamilton at Drumboy and Heads by Clydesdale.
  Source for the above was given in the book as - William Sewel (1811 edn.), i. pp. 158-159. Drumboy, or Drumbowy, 3 miles S. of East Kilbride, was the home of Hamilton ; John Hart lived at Heads in the parish of Glassford. In 1675 a burial-ground was acquired at Shawtonhill half-way between Drumboy and Heads.

[Ordinance Survey map of 1864]