Manasseh
Kempton
Born about in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of William Kempton
and Mary (Brewster) Kempton
Brother of
William Kempton, Ephraim Kempton, Joseph Kempton, Benjamin Kempton, Elijah Kempton, Stephen Kempton, James Kempton, William Damon Kempton and Daniel Kempton
Husband of
Lois (Swift) Kempton
— married
5 Apr 1764 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Father of
Paul Kempton, Sophia Kempton, Manasseh Kempton, Jireh Kempton, Deborah (Kempton) Church, Jonathan Kempton, Silas Swift Kempton, Lois Kempton and Mary (Kempton) Booth
Died
at about age 66
in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Sep 2011
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Biography
Manasseh Kempton [1]
Baptized 28 June 1752 at the Church of Christ, First Congregational Church of Dartmouth (now Acushnet), MA
Marriage may be in New Bedford, MA
Lieutenant Manasseh Kempton served with Bristol County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.
Military: Lieutenant, Bristol County, Massachusetts Militia. [2]
Received a large tract of land in New Bedford from the division of his father's estate where he built a house on what is now the SW corner of Second and Elm Streets.
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #37231638.
- Doug Coldwell, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Doug and others.
- Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-<2015>. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/i/51964/106/71746396
- The Kempton/Kimpton families in North America : from Plymouth Colony through the tenth generation throughout the United States and Canada by Saunders, Morton W., pg 34 and 52
- ↑ Entered by Doug Coldwell, Sep 21, 2011
- ↑ SAR https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/258814 accessed 3 March 2024
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