Little Compton, Rhode Island Ancestors - No Compton's!

It is interesting to note that a number of ancestors of the Laffin, Hennigar, Densmore lines settled and lived in Little Compton, Rhode Island in the 1600's.  There are none of my Compton ancestors who lived there! The origin of the name of Little Compton is not known.

Some of my direct ancestors who lived there were:

1) William Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden (daughter of Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullin.
2) Sarah Pabodie (their daughter) and John Coe
3) Edward Burgess and Elizabeth Coe (their daughter)
4) Sarah Burgess (their daughter) who married Philip Mosher and moved to Nova Scotia.

5) Edward Richmond and Abigail Davis
6) Esther Richmond and Thomas Burgess
7) Nicholas Mosher
8) Abigail Tripp
9) Rebecca Wilcox

There were also some other direct ancestors that lived in Tiverton, Rhode Island, a town adjacent to Little Compton to the north. These include Mosher, Maxson, and Taber ancestors.

According to 17th century land evidence, Little Compton originally belonged to the Sakonnet (variations include Sogkonate, Seconit, Seaconnet, etc.) tribe, who were led by Awashonks, the cousin of Metacomet (commonly known as King Philip). The area was known by the name Sakonnet, which means “the black goose comes.”
The first European settlers in Little Compton were Englishmen from Duxbury, Massachusetts in the Plymouth Colony who sought to expand their land holdings. After first attempting negotiations with Awashonks, they petitioned the Plymouth Colony, which granted them their charter. In a series of lotteries beginning in 1674 and ending in the early 1680s, they divided the land in Little Compton into lots of standardized acreage and began settling there.
In 1682, the town was incorporated by the Plymouth Colony and renamed Little Compton. This is possibly a reference to Little Compton in Warwickshire, England. However, there is no direct evidence to substantiate this relationship. By 1747, Little Compton secured its own royal decree and was annexed to Newport County as a part of Rhode Island along with Tiverton and Bristol.

Little Compton Common Cemetery

Elisabeth Pabodie, the eldest daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of Mayflower fame, is buried in the Little Compton Common cemetery. The stones in this cemetery reflect a style of carving similar to that found both in Newport, R.I. and in Boston during the same time period.

From Wikipedia:
Elisabeth Pabodie (1623–1717), also known as Elisabeth Alden Pabodie or Elisabeth Peabody, was allegedly the first white woman born in New England. She was born Elisabeth Alden in 1623, the first-born child of the Plymouth Colony settlers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, who were both passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. She married William Pabodie (Peabody), a leader of Duxbury, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1644. All thirteen of their children were born in Duxbury before Elisabeth eventually moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island in the 1680s. She died on May 31, 1717 in Little Compton and was buried in the cemetery on Little Compton Common.

                              Markers for Elisabeth Alden Pabodie (my 8th great grandmother)