FRAMPTON:
Descendants of William FRAMPTON,
the GGGGGGreatGrandfather of Ted Smetters
William FRAMPTON, came to America from England and became a large landholder in New York city in 1678 under the Dutch government. He was a Quaker and joined the Oyster Bay Quaker meeting.
He was a close associate of William Penn and became a land holder in Pennsylvania. Under Penn he served as the Keeper of the Great Seal and as a Register General of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Provincial Council, a Councilor for Kent county. His role as Councilor for Kent apparently lead some later researchers to refer to him as William Kent Frampton.
According to Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy, page 23, William probably was the grandson of John Frampton of England who was born in 1581. John was a merchant and a compatriot of John Hampden, Oliver Cromwell and other members of the Parliament which resisted the aggressions of Charles I., and founded the English Commonwealth.
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(Updated May 2003)
Note that the information on these pages came from a wide variety of sources including data from other researchers. Much has not been verified by me and may contain incomplete or inaccurate statements. The material is included to provide clues in your searches and to give a general understanding of the family history!
Also note that when a name is followed by a number in parenthesis, such as (#1), (#2), (#3), that this is a method within to distinguish within my own data several people with the same name in the order in which I discovered them, not in the order of birth. The numer is not a part of their names.
The suffixes Jr. and Sr. are used only when records have been found recording the name that way.