Editing Hampton, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==

[[File:BrewsterDrMrs.jpg|thumb|150px|right|A painting ({{circa|1795–1800}}) by [[John Brewster Jr. (painter)|John Brewster Jr.]] of his stepmother and his father, a leader in the Hampton church and member of the Connecticut General Assembly]]

* [[William H. Barnes (jurist)|William H. Barnes]], jurist
* [[John Brewster Jr. (painter)|John Brewster Jr.]] (1766–1854), deaf, itinerant, prolific painter; born in town
* [[Royal B. Farnum]] (1884–1967), president of the [[Rochester Institute of Technology|Athenæum and Mechanics Institute]]
* [[Martin Flint]] (1782–1855), [[Vermont]] political figure and military officer; a leader of the [[Anti-Masonic Party]] and [[State adjutant general|Adjutant General]] of the [[Vermont National Guard|Vermont Militia]]
* [[Edwin Way Teale]] (1899–1980), naturalist and author; lived on a farm in rural Hampton with his wife Nellie from 1959 until his death. Their time at the farm named Trail Wood is chronicled in Teale's book ''A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm'' (1974). The property is now managed as a nature preserve by the Connecticut [[Audubon Society]]<ref>Connecticut Audubon Society, Center At Trail Wood, url={{cite web |url=http://www.ctaudubon.org/visit/trailwood.htm |title=Connecticut Audubon Society |access-date=March 3, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313155122/http://www.ctaudubon.org/visit/trailwood.htm |archive-date=March 13, 2008 }}, Retrieved February 3, 2008</ref>
* [[Theodore Dwight Weld]] (1803–1895), author of ''American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses''; evangelical abolitionist; born in town, where he lived until 1825
* [[Annie Withey]], co-founder of [[Annie's Homegrown]]; inventor of [[Smartfood]] while living in Hampton with her husband