COMPTON, William

1631 - 1694  (63 years)

• Name	COMPTON, William
  Born	1631	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Or England
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Sep 1694	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
  Person ID	I9528	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	COMPTON, John,   b. 1605, England ,   d. 1644, Bolton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 39 years)
  Mother	FREEMAN, Susannah,   b. 1609, England ,   d. 10 Nov 1664  (Age 55 years)
  Married	1628	Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F3296	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	WILMOT, Mary,   b. 1635, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 1713, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey  (Age 78 years)
  Married	21 Sep 1666	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
  Children	1. COMPTON, Mary,   b. Nov 1667, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey ,   d. 15/15 Feb 1734/1735, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey  (Age ~ 67 years)   2. COMPTON, John,   b. 2/02 Jan 1668/1669, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey ,   d. 1731  (Age 61 years)   3. COMPTON, Sarah,   b. 25 Jul 1670, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey ,   d. 16 Sep 1670, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey  (Age 0 years)   4. COMPTON, David,   b. 21 Jul 1671, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey ,   d. 5 Nov 1694, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey  (Age 23 years)   5. COMPTON, Johnathan,   b. 18 Dec 1674, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey ,   d. Abt 3 Sep 1745, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey  (Age 70 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F3309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  WILLIAM COMPTON OF IPSWICH It has been accepted by the Compton family genealogists that a son of the previous JOHN COMPTON of Roxbury and Boston, was that WILLIAM COMPTON, located at Ipswich, Mass., who bought land there of Daniel Ladd in 1662. (Savage, Vol. I, p. 439) (See N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., Vol. VI, 1852, p. 248 and 346.) SALTER, (1890, p. XIX, of Gen. Rec.), where the author makes it appear that there were two William Comptons in New Jersey who were contemporaneous. This is not correct. WILLIAM COMPTON was in Gravesend, L. I., in 1656, (vide, ante, PART TWO, p. 162, and in Monmouth Co., a First Settler, 1667, (idem, p. 172.) He was called "planter," and as early as 1669 his name appears in the deed records relating to Woodbridge. (Arch., Vol. XXI, pp. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 15.) The following entry of 1675, "Here begins the Rights of Land due according to the Concessions." (N. J. Arch., Vol. XXI, p. 18.) "William Compton and wife." This wife was Mary Wilmot, (1635-1713) (Nat. Soc. Daus. Amer. Col., Vol. I, p. 316) whom he m. in 1666. The dates of WILLIAM COMPTON, 1631-1709(?). According to the Vital Records of Woodbridge, William Compton, Senior, died there, Friday night, Sept. 21, 1694. His estate and will are disclosed by the following: "1694 Oct. 2. Testimony of Edward Watson and Richard Smith and wife, Ellener, Concerning the intentions expressed by William Compton of Woodbridge, who died Friday night, Sept. 21, 1694. Mentions a wife, sons--Jonathan, John, William, David. 1694, Oct. 2. Letters testimonial with the will of William Compton annexed, issued to his widow Mary and to Jonathan Compton." (Arch, Vol. XXI, pp. 215.) 1694 Oct. 1. Inventory of the estate; made by John Langstaff and Jabish Hendrick." (Arch., Vol. XXIII, p. 104.) From other deed and will records, the following children are certainly identified. I. Mary, born, the first white child in Woodbridge, Nov. 1667-8, who married, Jan. 1, 1695-6, Caleb Campbell. (Vide, ante, this PART, p. 515.) (Also, PART THREE, p. 373.) II. John, born Jan. 2, 1669. III. Sarah, born July 25, 1670; d. Sept. 16, 1670. IV. David, born, July 21 (26) 1671. V. Sarah, born, June 1, 1673; m. Dec. 9, 1697, John Drake of Piscataway. VI. Jonathan, born Dec. 18, 1674. The foregoing from the Woodbridge Vital Records. VII. William, Junior, b. (???). VIII. Cornelius, b. (???). IX. Richard, b. (???).