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Abraham Compton

Male 1747 - 1779  (32 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Abraham Compton was born in 1747 in , , New Jersey, United States (son of Isselstyne Compton and Aaltjie Blaaw); died in 1779 in , , Virginia, United States.

    Family/Spouse: Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Isselstyne Compton was born in 1694 in , Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States (son of Richard Compton, Sr. and Prudence Isselstyne); died in Somerset, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.

    Notes:

    Birth:
    est date

    Isselstyne married Aaltjie Blaaw in 1720 in Hopewell, Mercer, New Jersey, United States. Aaltjie died in Somerset, Somerset, New Jersey, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Aaltjie Blaaw died in Somerset, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As : Orchie Blue

    Children:
    1. Ezekial Compton
    2. Elizabeth Compton
    3. William Compton
    4. Henry Compton
    5. John Compton, I was born in 1730 in , , New Jersey, United States; died in 1778.
    6. 1. Abraham Compton was born in 1747 in , , New Jersey, United States; died in 1779 in , , Virginia, United States.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Richard Compton, Sr. was born in Dec 1663 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, United States (son of William Henry Compton, II and Mary Bowne); died in 1709 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Old Address: May have moved to the Freehold area near Tennent Church, with his brother Jacob Compton
    • Stories and Notes: Sources and Notes
    • Old Address: 1701
    • Stories and Notes: 17 Jul 1701; signed a petition to the King to appoint a suitable person as Governor

    Notes:

    Old Address:
    Sold the land he inherited from his father William Compton to his brother, Cornelius Compton. Cornelius Compton had the land repatened in his name in 1703.

    Richard married Prudence Isselstyne on 13 Dec 1694 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Prudence Isselstyne

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As : Prudence (Providence) Isselstyne (Usselton)

    Notes:

    Birth:
    Dutch

    Notes:

    Married:
    Married by Lewis Morris

    Children:
    1. Mary Compton
    2. John Compton
    3. William Compton
    4. Joseph Compton
    5. 2. Isselstyne Compton was born in 1694 in , Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States; died in Somerset, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.
    6. Richard Compton Compton was born in 1702; and died.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  William Henry Compton, II was born in 1645 in Long Island, , New York, United States (son of William Weillum Compton, I and Mary Wilmot); died in 1709 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As : Baptist William
    • Religion: Baptist
    • Old Address: Old Middletown
    • Stories and Notes: Had 10 Childern
    • To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent
    • Old Address: 1666, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; went with a number of others in 1666 to Monmouth County, New Jersey, and were among the founders of Middletown.
    • Old Address: Dec 1667, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; records indicate William was was identified with lot 15 in the town itself, and lot 14 in the Poplar field [sic].

    Notes:

    (Research):Captain John Bowne, of Middletown, for his rights, 18th March, 1675, 500 acres. Item: for rights of himself and wife, his father, mother and for William Compton and his wife from first year, 120 acres each, 780 acres; three servants at 60 acres each. 180 acres.

    This suggests a close link between Capt. John Bowne and William Compton; we know William Compton's wife was a Mary, so we have interpreted it as Mary being sister to Capt. John Bowne, and Bowne and Compton being brothers-in-law.

    Religion:
    William Compton is a Baptist, he with twelve men and twenty-four associates founded the first Baptist Church in Middletown township.

    William married Mary Bowne about 1666 in Long Island, , New York, United States. Mary (daughter of Captain William Bowne and Lydia Holme) was born in 1645; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mary Bowne was born in 1645 (daughter of Captain William Bowne and Lydia Holme); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Stories and Notes: Had 10 Children
    • To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

    Notes:

    (Research):Comptonology is giving the fruits of some research work on the kinship of one branch of the Compton family of America to the Abraham Lincoln's family. Capt. William Bowne, a nabob of English settlement of Long Island had among other daughters Mary and Sara. Mary Bowne and William Compton came to Monmouth Co., NJ by 1666 was one of the 12 men to help establish the Baptist Church at Middletown and the children of William and Mary were Richard md. Providence Isselstyne (Prudence Usselton) 1694 NJ, Cornelius thought to have md. -?- Stout, Jacob md. Elizabeth (last name unknown) and Judith md. Benjamin Devell 1689--possibly they had other children. Sara Bowne md. Richard Salter, moved to Monmouth Co., NJ and had these children: Thomas, John, Hanna, Richard Jr.,Wm., Ebenezer, James, Beborah and Oliver. Sara, wife of Richard Saltar, was a member of the Baptist Church at Middletown Co., NJ. There are other Saltars who must have been children of Richard and Sara Saltar. Hanna Saltar md. Mordecai Lincoln, who was born 4/24/1686 at Hingham, Mass, and came to NJ with His brother Abraham by 1708. Mordecai was son of Mordecai, Sr. and grandson of Samuel Lincoln, the emigrant from England, who came to Hingham by 1637. Samuel md. Martha, her last name is unknown, and they had eleven children.
    Mordecai and Hanna Salter Lincoln's oldest son was John b. 5/3/1711, and moved with his parents and other children to Chester Co., PA by 1725. This John Lincoln in 1748 sold land in Middlesex Co., NJ which had been willed him by his father on Cranberry Creek, 300 acres to Wm. Dye for 200 lbs..
    At that date John resided in Lancaster Co., PA. This John was the great grandfather of the president, Abraham Lincoln. We do not know whom this John married, but in some way, they were related to Daniel Boone, the frontiersman. Doubtless all five of John's children were born at Caernarvon Township, Lancaster Co., PA. The third son was Abraham the grandfather of the president b. 7/16/1739. In 1767 or '68 John moved to the Shenandoah Valley, near the present site of Harrisonburg, Virginia. There he was referred to as "Virginia John" to distinguish him from a cousin John living in PA. His son Abraham accompanied him to Virginia where he purchased land in 1773 and sold it in 1780, when incited by narratives of his kinsman Daniel Boone whom he followed to the wilds of KY by or before 1784, and was shot and killed by the Indians in 1784. Abraham's son, Thomas b. 1/20/1780, was the father of the president. It is of interest to know that in the progressive migration of the noted family from Hingham, Mass. through NJ, PA, Virginia, KY, IN, onto IL and the White House. Here we show the first time Abraham Lincoln speaks of his people; statement made in 1860. "I was born 2/12/1809, Harden Co., KY. My parents were both born in Virginia of undistinguished families, possibly of the second generation, I should say. My mother, who died when I was 10 years old, was a Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams Co., IL. My paternal grandfather Abraham Lincoln came from Rockingham Co., Virginia to KY about 1781-2 where a year or so later he was killed by Indians--not in battle but by stealth when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors came from PA. My father, at the death of his father, was six years of age, and grew up literally without education.
    My father removed to Spencer Co., IN in my 8th year and there reached our new home when the state came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were schools but no qualifications of teachers beyond 'readin', 'writen' and 'cipherin' to the 'Rule of Three'. If a straggler, supposed to know and understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I grew up I did not know much. At 21 I came to Macon Co., IL, then to New Salem where I remained a year or so as clerk in a store." (and so on in his narrative.) Then Abraham says "an effort has been made to identify my family with the Lincoln family of New England and has ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai,Solomon, Abraham and so on. It has since been proved the families are the same.
    At Clarksburg, Monmouth Co., NJ there was found some years ago a small weather beaten tombstone, a marker of Mordecai and Hanna Salter Lincoln's daughter Bebora died age 3 years and 4 months. It is near the town where Mordecai and Hanna Lincoln had lived before 1711. The grave received official recognition some years ago when Miss Ida Tarbell led a motorcade of persons interested in Lincoln to the "Ye Olde Robbins Cemetery" and placed a wreath on the grave.

    Children:
    1. 4. Richard Compton, Sr. was born in Dec 1663 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; died in 1709 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
    2. Judith Compton was born in 1666 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; and died.
    3. Mary Compton was born in Nov 1667 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; died on 15 Feb 1735 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; was buried in Woodbridge Cemetary, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.
    4. Cornelious Compton, Sr. was born in 1670 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; died on 14 Jan 1758 in , Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
    5. Jacob Compton, III was born in 1681 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; and died.