William Thompson (1628 - 1676)

Born 1628 in Scotland [uncertain]

Husband of Mary White — married 1652 in Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire

Husband of Mary (White) Thompson — married about 1655 in Strafford Co, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 22 Jun 1676 at about age 48 in Kittery, York, Maine

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Biography

William Thompson was born in Scotland.

William Thompson is believed to have been a prisoner of Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar and sent to Boston.^[1]

William Thompson is on record and reported by John Sailes of Dover, New Hampshire having come from England in 1633.^[2]

William Thompson received a grant of 50 acres in 1656 "beyond Cochecho log swamp" in Dover, New Hampshire, along with other Scotchmen who worked in the saw mills of Kittery. That same year he also received land below Sturgeon Creek in what is now Eliot, Maine, from John White to whom it had been granted by the town of Kittery in 1651. It is conjectured that he may have married a daughter of John White. William's descendants (other than John) are said to be covered in Old Kittery and Her Families and in Sinnet's Our Thompson Family.

This was laid out, March 17, 1658/'59 "beyond Cocheco Logg Swamp." Nov. 8, 1715, John Thompson, Sr., of Dover, conveyed to John Tuttle fifty acres of land which "were granted to my father, William Thompson, by the town of Dover." It lay beyond Cocheco Log Swamp, "bounded on the south by Bellamy Bank River." There is no evidence that William Thompson ever lived on this grant. On Oct. 15, 1656, a grant made to John White in 1651, was assigned to William Thompson. It was in Kittery, a short way below Sturgeon Creek. Several indications suggest that he had married the daughter of John White.

In 1659 he was brought to court in York "for rebellion against his father and mother-in-law" and was required to post a bond for good behavior. (State copy of Court Records, Vol. I, page 331.)

William Thompson died in 1676, and his estate was appraised, June 22 of that year, at £52 and 18s. He left twenty-three acres of land, a house and orchard in Kittery, Me., and fifty acres in Dover, N. H., which he gave to his sons, William and Robert, and to John White. His wife had probably died before 1676. He left children (spelled Thomson), whose ages were given in 1677 as follows:

1. John, aged 18; m. Sarah Woodman.
2. William, aged 16; m. prob. Mary Lovering.
3. Robert, aged 13. "living with Tobey Hanson at Dover."
4. James, aged 11: m. Elizabeth Frye.
5. Alexander, aged 6; in. Anna Curtis.
6. Judith, aged 2.

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Children:

1. John Thompson, b. ca 1659.
2. William Thompson, b. ca 1661; in 1677 apprentice of Richard Otis.
3. Robert Thompson, b. ca 1664; in 1677 apprentice of Toby Hanson.
4. James Thompson, b. ca 1666; became tailor in Maine.
5. Alexander Thompson, b. ca 1671; still living in 1677.
6. Judith Thompson, b. ca 1675; still living in 1677.

Sources

1. ↑ listed in The Scottish Prisoners of War Society https://spows.org/?s=thompson
2. ↑ "Our Thompson Family" of ME, NH and the West by Charles Sinnett at Concord NH, 1907. https://ia600205.us.archive.org/9/items/ourthompsonfamil00lcsinn/ourthompsonfamil00lcsinn.pdf
3. ↑ Old Kittery and Her Families. https://ia801407.us.archive.org/3/items/oldkitteryherfam00staciala/oldkitteryherfam00staciala.pdf
4. ↑ "Our Thompson Family" of ME, NH and the West by Charles Sinnett at Concord NH, 1907.
5. ↑ Vol. I, pp. 100-104 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45.
6. ↑ Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers in New England, James Savage. 1860 Little Brown https://books.google.ca/books/about/A_GENEALOGICAL_DICTIONARY_OF_THE_FIRST_S.html?id=HWEblLuls8kC&redir_esc=y

• Source: S165 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

• https://spows.org/battle-of-dunbar/dunbar-documentation/list-of-dunbar-prisoners-from-lost-lives-new-voices/
• Publication: Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 Paperback – Illustrated, June 25, 2018 by Chris Gerrard (Author), Pam Graves (Author), Andrew Millard (Author), Richard Annis (Author), Anwen Caffell (Author) The assessment, of which men appearing in New England were prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar and transported on the Unity, is taken from the book produced by the Durham University Scottish Soldiers Project Team.

Acknowledgements

• Thompson-574 was created 13 Sep 2010 - 21:44: Gedcom DeCoursey imported the data for William Thompson (1628-1676)
• Thompson-18280 was created by Bryan Sypniewski through the import of LentVise3b_2014-10-20.ged on Oct 20, 2014.