LINTON Family Traditional Lore

i. William (1660-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George County, Virginia.

ii. Francis (1662-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George County, Virginia.

iii. Hannah (1664-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George County, Virginia.

iv. John (1670-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George County, Virginia.

v. Alling (1670-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George, County, Virginia.

vi. Richard (1672-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George County, Virginia.

vii. Samuel (1674-?) Hunting Creek Plantation, of olde King George County, Virginia.

viii Edward BALL (1678-?)  Middlesex County, Virginia.

Elizabeth LINTON (1645-1672) was the daughter of Moses LINTON (1613-1693) and Elizabeth. Moses was born in 1613 in Kecoughtan, Elizabeth Cittie, olde Princes Ann County, Virginia. According to historian,William Strachey (1572-1621), Kecoughtan was the name of the Algonquian Native Americans village living there when the English explorers and colonists arrived and received their first welcome in America in 1607, in the present day Hampton Roads area, Virginia. The tribe remained generally friendly to them until the summer of 1609, when President John Smith (1580-1631) sent Captaine Martin to forcibly take over the island inhabited by the Nansemonds, across the mouth of the James River. A company of 17 men mutinied from Martin and absconded to Kecoughtan to buy corn, where they were all killed. Martin abandoned the Nansemonds' island and returned to Jamestown.

According to William Strachey (1572-1621) in 1610, the colonists including Captaine Radcliffe and Elizabeth’s grandfather, carpenter, William LINTON Esquire (1590-?) and his bothers, Moses, John and Joseph Linton then built Fort Algernon at Old Point Comfort beside the main Kecoughtan village. After the arrival of Lord Delaware, the English seized the natives' land on July 9, 1610 by luring them out of their village with a tambourine player, then attacking them. The surviving Kecoughtans fled to merge with other Powhatan groups. On the same date in 1610, the Elizabeth City Parish was founded. The area and the parish has since been continuously occupied. Renamed St. John's Episcopal Church in 1830, the parish is the oldest English-speaking parish in the US today. Kecoughtan became part of Elizabeth River Shire in 1634, and Elizabeth City County in 1637. In the 1690s, Kecoughtan became part of the newly incorporated Town of Hampton, which later became an independent city. Elizabeth City County and its only incorporated town, Phoebus, both agreed to a consolidation with Hampton in 1952, forming the current City of Hampton.

In 1608, Elizabeth’s grandfather and brothers had been ship wicked on the Somers Isles, now Saint Charles, Bermuda, with Master William Strachey (1572-1621). Esquire, William LINTON 1590-?) later left the Kecoughtan, Elizabeth Cittie Colony and his brothers and resettled on Somers Isles. William became a sugarcane plantation owner there and left many Linton descendants including an island named after him, Linton Island.

Elizabeth was the 5^th great-granddaughter of John LINTON (1450-?) of Olde Wynkill, Parish Wynkill, County Staffordshire, England. Kirk Louis LINTON’s (1914-1987) mother, Annie Lucretia CRONK (1888-1956) was the 13^th great-granddaughter of the same John LINTON of Olde Wynkill.

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