Benjamin was the son of Joseph Hampton and Mary Canby Hampton. Their surname was sometimes spelled Hamton.
The birthdate used above is from the Gregorian calendar. Quaker religious records from the period -- in which the Julian calendar began the year in March -- recorded Benjamin's birth on the 15th day of the 7th month, 1728.
He married Ann Wildman on Nov. 28, 1750 (the 28th day of the 9th month, 1750) in Wrightstown. They had nine children: Mary in 1752, Esther in 1755, Rachel in 1756, Benjamin in 1758, Oliver in 1761, James in 1764, Ann in 1767, Sarah in 1769 and Elizabeth in 1772.
He lived in Wrightstown all his life and was intimately involved with the Friends' meeting house there.
From "In the Footsteps of Joseph Hampton and the Pennsylvania Quakers," by Vernon Boyce Hampton, Doylestown, PA: Bucks County Historical Society, 1940, p. 56:
"...Benjamin died sitting in his chair in the old homestead at Wrightstown. The venerable gentleman was accustomed to taking a nap after dinner, sitting in his favorite chair, and his passing was peaceful and quiet, and unnoticed until he failed to waken at his usual time."
It is assumed, but not confirmed, that he was buried in the Wrightstown Friends Meeting Cemetery.
The birthdate used above is from the Gregorian calendar. Quaker religious records from the period -- in which the Julian calendar began the year in March -- recorded Benjamin's birth on the 15th day of the 7th month, 1728.
He married Ann Wildman on Nov. 28, 1750 (the 28th day of the 9th month, 1750) in Wrightstown. They had nine children: Mary in 1752, Esther in 1755, Rachel in 1756, Benjamin in 1758, Oliver in 1761, James in 1764, Ann in 1767, Sarah in 1769 and Elizabeth in 1772.
He lived in Wrightstown all his life and was intimately involved with the Friends' meeting house there.
From "In the Footsteps of Joseph Hampton and the Pennsylvania Quakers," by Vernon Boyce Hampton, Doylestown, PA: Bucks County Historical Society, 1940, p. 56:
"...Benjamin died sitting in his chair in the old homestead at Wrightstown. The venerable gentleman was accustomed to taking a nap after dinner, sitting in his favorite chair, and his passing was peaceful and quiet, and unnoticed until he failed to waken at his usual time."
It is assumed, but not confirmed, that he was buried in the Wrightstown Friends Meeting Cemetery.
Benjamin was the son of Joseph Hampton and Mary Canby Hampton. Their surname was sometimes spelled Hamton.
The birthdate used above is from the Gregorian calendar. Quaker religious records from the period -- in which the Julian calendar began the year in March -- recorded Benjamin's birth on the 15th day of the 7th month, 1728.
He married Ann Wildman on Nov. 28, 1750 (the 28th day of the 9th month, 1750) in Wrightstown. They had nine children: Mary in 1752, Esther in 1755, Rachel in 1756, Benjamin in 1758, Oliver in 1761, James in 1764, Ann in 1767, Sarah in 1769 and Elizabeth in 1772.
He lived in Wrightstown all his life and was intimately involved with the Friends' meeting house there.
From "In the Footsteps of Joseph Hampton and the Pennsylvania Quakers," by Vernon Boyce Hampton, Doylestown, PA: Bucks County Historical Society, 1940, p. 56:
"...Benjamin died sitting in his chair in the old homestead at Wrightstown. The venerable gentleman was accustomed to taking a nap after dinner, sitting in his favorite chair, and his passing was peaceful and quiet, and unnoticed until he failed to waken at his usual time."
It is assumed, but not confirmed, that he was buried in the Wrightstown Friends Meeting Cemetery.
The birthdate used above is from the Gregorian calendar. Quaker religious records from the period -- in which the Julian calendar began the year in March -- recorded Benjamin's birth on the 15th day of the 7th month, 1728.
He married Ann Wildman on Nov. 28, 1750 (the 28th day of the 9th month, 1750) in Wrightstown. They had nine children: Mary in 1752, Esther in 1755, Rachel in 1756, Benjamin in 1758, Oliver in 1761, James in 1764, Ann in 1767, Sarah in 1769 and Elizabeth in 1772.
He lived in Wrightstown all his life and was intimately involved with the Friends' meeting house there.
From "In the Footsteps of Joseph Hampton and the Pennsylvania Quakers," by Vernon Boyce Hampton, Doylestown, PA: Bucks County Historical Society, 1940, p. 56:
"...Benjamin died sitting in his chair in the old homestead at Wrightstown. The venerable gentleman was accustomed to taking a nap after dinner, sitting in his favorite chair, and his passing was peaceful and quiet, and unnoticed until he failed to waken at his usual time."
It is assumed, but not confirmed, that he was buried in the Wrightstown Friends Meeting Cemetery.
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