(I have only posted the people known to be part of the Compton family through marriage. īenedict's "History of the Baptists" states that for the origin of the first Baptist church in Middletown we have to look to the year 1667, for that was the year when Middletown was purchased from the Indians by twelve men and twenty-four associates. Another item in the book shows William Compton as a Baptist, and as one of the founders of the first Baptist church in Middletown Township. William Compton appears as number 15, purchasing 280 acres of land and as coming from Long Island. ![]() In The Town Book of Old Middletown we read that the home lots in Middletown were 36 in numerical order. They came mostly from Rhode Island and Upper Long Island and were persecuted Quakers and Baptists." By 1668 there were a hundred purchases withing two towns. "The first planters were John Bowne, Richard Stout, and three other families. ![]() In the History of New Jersey, Volume I, we read: "some 20 Long Islanders got (purchased) land from the natives n December of 1663. William Compton Jr., son of William "Weillum" the immigrant from England, moved from Gravesend, Long Island, NY sometime before 1666. Husband of Mary (Bowne) Compton - married 1666 in New Jerseyįather of Judith (Compton) Devell, Cornelius Compton, Richard Compton and Jacob Comptonĭied 1709 at about age 64 in Monmouth County, New Jersey 1645 - 1709) William Compton Jr.īorn about 1645 in Gravesend, Long Island, New York
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