Thomas Sleeper, born about 1616, was of Hampton soon after the settlement of the town. Land was granted to him as early as 1646. He lived several years near the Jesse Lamprey place ; but later in life, on what is now known as Shaw's Hill, on the road leading from the school-house in the easterly part of the town, to Little River. His was then a frontier house, no other family living so remote in that direction from the main settlement. From him and his descendants that part of the town was called Sleeper-town (since corrupted into Sleepy-town). He died July 30, 1696, and his family afterwards removed to the newly incorporated town of Kingston, where his wife, Joanna, died Feb. 5, 1703. She was brought to Hampton for burial.
