Genealogy of the John Pleasant Burton Family Compiled by Nellie M. Starkey Knox of Loveland, Colorado and Wilson Burton Starkey of Seattle, Washington Genealogy of the John Pleasant Burton Family Compiled by Nellie M. Starkey Knox of Loveland, Colorado and Wilson Burton Starkey of Seattle, Washington We gratefully acknowledge the help of Fay Burton Reiss of Kansas City, Missouri, who gathered data on several families and who contributed the article written by Isom Burton about 1880, the help of Blanche Burton Lank, of Shreveport, Louisiana, who contributed the Stamper Genealogy, and the help of Iva Burton Ellis of Ringling, Oklahoma, who contributed several family lines. Data on the family prior to John Pleasant Burton have been gathered from various libraries in the United States. Several passages from the "Burton Chronicles of Colonial Virginia" by Francis Burton Harrison are quoted in this work, with due credit n9ted. Information is given on related families which converge into this lineage. Stamper Monroe Maxwell Allen Hunt Minge Harrison Each descendant is given a key number. Example of the use of the numerical tables: 587 is Robert Burton Joki, his number is preceded by number 433, which shows his lineage through his mother, 433 Frances Ruth Starkey, preceded by 339i showing her father Wilson Burton Starkey, preceded by 256, showing his mother to be Ida Adele Burton, preceded by 109, showing her father to be Eli Maxwell Burton, preceded by 10, showing his father to be Rev. Hardin Burton, preceded by 1, showing Hardin Burton to be the son of John Pleasant Burton. STAMPER ( Courtesy of Mrs. Blanche Burton Lank, of Shreveport, La., a descendant of David Burton.) From Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia, from 1653 to 1812. p 8 Susannah Stamper was dau of Jonathan Stamper b 4/21/1719, son of Powell Stamper, b ... d 1727, son of John Stamper, living in Middlesex Co. Va. as early as 1667. John Stamper, Middlesex Co. Va. m 1st Dorcas, m 2nd Su!annah. p 12 son ... Jno. Stamper sone of Jno. and Elizabeth Stamper was borne ye 29th of August 1677 and was baptized at ye house of Jno. Stamper pr. (pastor?) Mr. ShE!ppard 8th of October 1677. p 81 son ... Powell Stamper m 4/10/1708 d 5-22-17-Mary Brookes. p 86 Children: ·cary b 6/25/1712 d 9/2/1720 p 89 John bapt 10/17/1714 m Sarah .. p 96 Susannah b 12/19/1715 p 102 Jonathan b 4/21 bapt 5/24 1719 m Rachel ... p 113 Letitia b 9/22 bapt 11/24/1723 p 120 Kerah b 3/21/1725 b~pt 4/24/1726. Children of Jonathan Stamper and Rachel. 1 Jesse Stamper \Vill Jonathan Stamper dated 12/17/1793 proved 1799, sale of estate June 1799. Information from Sec. of State office "Land Grants," Book 3, p 359, "Jesse Stamper, 100 acres in Wilkes County, lying on both sides of the south fork of Roaring River, beginning ... Entered 4/2/1799. (This is said to be a "Mili­ tary Grant" for services rendered in the Revolutionary War. 2 Jonathan b ... d ... m Mary Sebastian 2/23/1801. 3 Joel Stamper b 1754 m Nancy Cannaday 7/29/1780. From ''North Carolina Troops and N. C. Pension Roll," U. S. list of pensions, 1840, p. 154: Wilkes County-Joel Stamper, Private, N. C. Militia, placed on pension roll April 30, 1833. 1 4 Jacob Stamper b 1762/3 in Amherst Co. Va. From "Historical Sketches of the Revolutionary War," Soldiers who settled in the Blue Grass section of Kentucky, Owenton, Ky., abstracts from the pension records, compiled by Mrs. Carl W. McGee, Grays Knob, Ky., p. 32: Jacob Stamper S 16544-North Carolina. "The above soldier was living in the County of Owen, State of Kentucky when he applied for pension on the date of October 1, 1832. He was born in the County of Amherst, State of Virginia Dec. 15, 1762. He enlisted in the County of Wilkes, State of N o:rth Carolina in 1778. He stated that his father moved his family (sometime after the birth of Jacob) to Wilkes Co. N. C. He stated that after he left the serivice he soon married, and moved to Grayson Co. Va. Afterward he moved back to Wilkes Co. N. C. then to Batetourte Co. Va. then back to Wilkes Co. and finally to Owen Co. Ky. (The affidavit of a fellow soldier by the name of John Hammond was made in the County of Hamilton, State of Ohio, Sept. 5, 1832. He knew Jacob Stamper in 1778, when both ~ere residents of Wilkes County, N. C. 5 James Stamper b ...· d ... m ... 6 Susannah Stamper b 8/22/1767 either in Amherst Co. Va. or in Wilkes Co. N. C. d 8/10/1845. m 1779 to John Pleasant Burton. Both are buried in the Burton Cemetery near Mitchell Ind. A tall marble shaft marks the graves of Susannah and John Burton. They lived at one time in Ashe Co. N. C. and migrated to Lawrence Co. Ind. in 1826. Will of Jonathan Stamper (from N. C. State Dep't of Archives and History, Wilkes County Wills, Inventories, and Sales of Estates 1779-1852. Vol 2 p 50) Jonathan Stamper Sr. of Wilkes County, being very old, but in good health 17th December, 1793: To wife Rachel Stamper, all my estate during her life or widowhood, then I give my son, Jesse Stamper, the land and Plantation where I now live, one negro boy named James. (If said Jesse Stamper dies without lawful heir, my will and desire is that his estate be brought in and equally divided between his brothers and sisters. After my wife's death the residue of the estate is to be equally divided amongst all of my children. The Negroes shall not be sold out of the family. Sons Jonathan Stamper and Jesse Stamper Executors. Teste: his John Forrester Jonathan X Stamper Senr. William Sebastian mark Proved April term 1799 by William Sebastian. Page 520: A/C of the sale of Jonathan Stamper's Estate on 4th and 5th of June, 1799: Returned to July Court, 1799. Among purchasers were: Jesse Stamper; negro woman, feather bed, household furniture, wheat patch, table knives and forks . .. Jacob Stamper; negro, etc. Joel Stamper; cow, etc. John Burton (husband of Susann.3.h Stamper) Mare, colt, compasses, bell, etc. Signed: Jonathan Stamper Jesse Stamper, Administrators. In 1790 Jonathan Stamper (Jr.) was living in Morgan's Dist. Wilkes County, N. C. 1790 census: 2 males, 2 females, 1 slave. D Stamper Record:::, of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths as contained in the records of the Christ Church, Middlesex County Virginia, from 1653 to 1812. p 8 Burials. Elizabeth Stamper ye wife of Jno. Stamper departd this Life 29 April 1663. p 10 Dorcas Stamper the wife of John Stamper Dyed July 16, 1667. p 12 Jn. Stamper the sane of Jno. and Elizabeth Stamper was borne the 29 of Aug. 1667 and was baptised at the house of the said Jno. Stamper pr. Mr. Sheppard 8th of Octobr 1677. p 86 Cary dau. of Powell and Mary Stamper borne 23rd june 1712. p 106 Cary Stamper dyed Sept ye 2 and was buried Sept ye 4, 1720. p 23 John Stamper and ... was married pr Mr. Reed 8th of May 1684. p 89 John son of Powell and Mary Stamper bapt. ye.17th of Octo. 1714. p 98 Susannah dau Powell and Mary Stamper b Dec. 19, bapt. Jan ye 27, 1716. p 102 Jonathan son Powell and Mary Stamper b Apr. 21, bapt. May ye 24, 1719. p 113 Letitia dau Powell and Mary Stamper b Sept. ye 22 bapt. Nov. ye 24, 1723. The Stamper name enters the Burton line through Susannah, daughter of Jonathan Sr. through her marriage to John Pleasant Burton. MONROE The name Monroe enters the Burton lineage through Chapman Arden Monroe, who was the husband of 7-68, Susannah Burton, daughter of David Burton and grand-daughter of John Pleasant Burton. This lineage doubles when· 10-109, Eli Maxwell Burton married 68-184, Susan Miranda Monroe, daughter of Chapman Arden Monroe and great grand-daughter of John Pleasant Burton. HISTORY Courtesy of Ina Monroe Pierson of Auburn, Washington. There have been even more theories as to the origin of this illustrious Scottish surname than there have been ways to spell it. Probably the most likely of them all is the simplest, namely that the first family to bear the name took it from his early home, which was near a mountain on the river Roe in County Derry, in Ireland. It appears that in the earliest times the name was spelled Munro, and that this form was Anglicized and Latinized to "de Monro." The most common forms today are Monro, Munro, and Munroe, also Monrow and Monroe, and in early New England records it was sometimes even abbreviated to Row and Roe. The family which bears this name has had an ancient and honorable history. One account (it is practically impossible to verify) says that the family was of ancient Scots, who, driven from the country by the Romans, fled to IrE,land and the Western Isles about 357 A. D. and that nearly seven hundred years later they returned to Scotland. However that may be, the earliest of the name of whom there is a definite record is Donald Monro. About the beginning of the 11th century he was granted extensive lands in the Shire of Ross by Malcolm, King of Scots-this grant constituting a payment for his services in the King's battles against the Danes.