Place:Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, United States


NameThompson
Alt namesQuaddick
TypeTown
Coordinates41.95°N 71.85°W
Located inWindham, Connecticut, United States     (May 1785 - )

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Thompson (Parish) - named 1728, incorporated 1785 from Killingly. - Ricker, 10.


Thompson Vital Records Transcript at the Connecticut State Library and NEHGS

"This volume contains a list alphabetically arranged of all of the vital records of the town of Thompson from its incorporation to about 1850. This list was taken from a set of cards based on a copy of the Thompson Vital Records made in 1909 by James N. Arnold, of Providence, R.I.

The entire record for this town prior to 1850 is contained in three volumes. After page 158 in the first volume, where a record of marriages begins, the Pagination repeats beginning with the number 43. To distinguish the duplicate numbers in this alphabetical list the letter 'm' follows the page numbers of the last half of the book. Every entry in the first two volumes has been indexed and in Volume 3 all births prior to December 31, 1850, all marriages prior to December 31, 1850, and all of the deaths. The record of deaths ends with an entry bearing the date of December 30, 1854.

The Arnold Copy, now in the possession of the Connecticut State Library, has not been compared with the original and doubtless errors exist. It is hoped that as errors or omissions are found notes will be entered in this volume and on the cards which are included in the General Index of Connecticut Vital Records also in the possession of the Connecticut State Library.

Hartford, Conn., July, 1921"


The Town

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Thompson is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The town was named after Sir Robert Thompson, an English landholder. The population was 9,189 at the 2020 census. Thompson is located in the northeastern corner of the state and is bordered on the north by Webster, Massachusetts and Dudley, Massachusetts, on the east by Douglas, Massachusetts and Burrillville, Rhode Island, on the west by Woodstock, Connecticut, and on the south by Putnam, Connecticut.

Thompson has the highest-banked race track (Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, a 5/8 mile oval and a restored 1.7 mile road course) in New England. This speedway holds one of the biggest race programs in New England, The World Series of Auto Racing, where 16 divisions and about 400 cars show up each fall. Another claim to fame is that the Tri-State Marker is located just on the border of Thompson. The term "Swamp Yankee" is thought to have originated in Thompson during the American Revolution in 1776. In colonial times, the town was the site of an Indian village, known as Maanexit.

Thompson was the site of the Great East Thompson Train Wreck in 1891, one of the worst train wrecks in American history and the only one to involve four trains.

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