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- Hendry writes:
"A most interesting aspect of this case is the above mentioned Ann(e) Compton. And by the way, we have been able to trace the 'Hazelrigg' to Sir Arthur, from the exact area in England that the Comptons are said to have originated. After Ann Compton Hasselrigg, died he remarried and had issue. To return to Ann. I do not know her maiden name. However, there is a very curious circumstance about this mother of John Compton, Jr of Northumberland Co., Virginia. And that is, wherever Ursula Bisshe went, Ann was sure to go. The husbands (known) of Ursula 'looked after' Ann and her property. If you have worked in early colonial genealogy, you know that most widows were remarried by the time their previous husband's estates were settled. There was simply a great shortage of women in colonial times. That being so, how was it that Ann Compton remained unmarried so many years? Who were her protectors? Ursula Bisshe's husbands were prominent men: Richard Thompson, Col. John Mottrom, and Col. George Colclough. Note do not confuse Col. George Colclough with his son, Maj. George Colclough, who married (her second husband) Elizabeth Willoughby, a granddaughter of Ursula Bisshe Thompson.
"Whether John Compton (II) of Northumberland were born in Virginia or in England, I do not know. I do know, however, that he and his mother were living among a group of very strong Loyalists re the English Civil War and that these people resided near the Northumberland-Westmorland line.
"Should you wish to check out Sir Arthur in the Visitations, remember that the name will be spelled several different ways, but most often, "Hasselrig" (Visitations of Nosley, Com. Leye.)
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Taylor Family Genealogy
Abt 1623 - 
, d. Bef 1650, Northumberland, Co., Va.