Bradshaw Family History
Zachariah Betts Hampton
1798 - 1861 (63 years)-
Name Zachariah Betts Hampton [1] Born 25 Jan 1798 Wrightstown or possibly Middletown Township, Bucks Co. Penn. 
[1] Gender Male Died 18 Apr 1861 Viola, Linn Co. Iowa [1] Person ID I0629 My Genealogy Last Modified 20 Dec 2012
Father John Hampton, b. 16 Oct 1763, d. 3 Dec 1842 (Age 79 years) Relationship natural Mother Mary Betts, b. 26 Jul 1771, Upper Markfield, Bucks Co., Penn. , d. 14 Jul 1837, Pennsville, in the Friends burying ground. (Age 65 years) Relationship natural Married 20 Jun 1787 [1] Family ID F0239 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Griffith Married 20 Apr 1825 Red Stone Friend's Meeting House, near Cookstown, Pennsylvania [1] Children 1. William Hampton, b. 14 Mar 1826 [natural] 2. Ruth Cope Hampton, b. 2 Jan 1828 [natural] 3. Lydia Hampton, b. 14 Aug 1830, d. 7 Jun 1845 (Age 14 years) [natural] 4. Sarah Griffith Hampton, b. 18 May 1832, Oregon [natural]5. Mary Elma Hampton, b. 8 Feb 1835 [natural] Last Modified 20 Feb 2014 Family ID F0235 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - There is no record of his early school days known to the writer but later he attended the Brandywine Friends Boarding School. He taught school in Loudon County, Virginia, and perhaps, also in Maryland, before coming to Ohio. He came to Ohio in advance of the family, in the year of 1824. Attended the Ohio Yearly Meeting (at Mt. Pleasant, probably) in the fall of that year. He took u p 80 acres of land near Pennsville, Morgan Co., and located a home for his pa rents in Blue Rock township, Muskingum Co.
he taught school at Flushing, Belmont County, and on the 20th of April, 1825 married Sarah Griffith, at Red Stone Friend's Meeting House, near Cookstown, Pennsylvania. This church was a branch of the Ohio Yearly Meeting.
The land he had purchased in Morgan County, was all in the woods and heavily timbered. He built a log cabin in the fall of 1825. There children were born in the cabin.
- There is no record of his early school days known to the writer but later he attended the Brandywine Friends Boarding School. He taught school in Loudon County, Virginia, and perhaps, also in Maryland, before coming to Ohio. He came to Ohio in advance of the family, in the year of 1824. Attended the Ohio Yearly Meeting (at Mt. Pleasant, probably) in the fall of that year. He took u p 80 acres of land near Pennsville, Morgan Co., and located a home for his pa rents in Blue Rock township, Muskingum Co.
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Sources - [S08096] Internet Notes.
Date of Import: Apr 26, 2000
- [S08096] Internet Notes.