Person:James Thompson (191)

Bounty Land Warrant

Bounty Land Warrant of James Thompson of Botetourt County, Virginia

Botetourt County Records

• 1770 - Of the members of the County Court of Botetourt County, James Robertson, Anthony Bledsoe and James Thompson had their residence upon the waters of the Holston and the Watauga.

• 13 July 1773, BCOB 3, p. 199 - Ordered that James Johnston, Patrick Davis and Hugh Miller do view the nighest & best way for a Road from Patrick Davis’s to Andrew Donally’s in the little Levels and from James Thompsons on Anthony’s Creek to James Mazes’s on Green brier and make Report thereof to the Court. [Botetourt County Road Orders, 1770-1778]

Greenbrier County Records

• VA Grants 57, p. 39-40, Library of Virginia Digital Collection: Land Office Patents and Grants

Isaac Phelps, 25 acres, Greenbrier

William H. Cabell, Esquire governor of the commonwealth of Virginia: To all to whom these presents shall come greeting: Know Ye, That by virtue of an exchanged Treasury Warrant, No. 1141, issued the twenty ninth day of September eighteen hundred and one, there is granted by the said commonwealth unto Isaac Phelps ass'ee of James Thompson, a certain tract or parcel of land, containing twenty five acres by survey bearing date the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and four, lying and being in the county of Greenbrier, on the waters of Anthony's creek, joining the land on which the said James Thompson now lives, and bounded as followeth to wit: Beginning at three dogwoods on a line of said Thompson's survey, and with the same, north forty five degrees east one hundred poles to a white oak and lynn, near the creek, north fifteen degrees east ninety four poles to three white oaks (two of which are fallen down) thence leaving said line, north sixty-five degrees west twenty poles to a sugar tree red oak and maple by a branch and thence South twenty five degrees west one hundred and eighty eight poles to the beginning: with its appurtenances; To Have & to Hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Isaac Phelps and his heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said William H. Cabell Esquire governor of the commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the second day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the commonwealth the thirty second.

Wm H. Cabell

• Isaac Phelps, Greenbrier County 1808, Adjoining the land James Thompson lives on, on Anthonys Creek. 25a.

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/65046118/person/46167349774

2. ↑ Hildeburn, Charles R, and Pennsylvania: Episcopal: Second and Church St.) Christ Church (Philadelphia. Baptisms and burials from the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1709-1760. (Baltimore [Maryland], 1982).

   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1709-60
   Name: James Thompson
   Parents: James Steel and Martha [Thompson]
   Birth Date: 4 Dec 1747
   Baptism Date: 25 Dec 1747
   Age at Baptism: 0

3.   New York Pensioners, 1835.

   New York Pensioners, 1835
   Name: James Thompson, 4th
   Rank: Private
   County: Ontario Co.
   Annual Allowance: 96 00
   Sums received: 720 76
   Description of service: New Hampshire line
   When placed on the pension roll: 1 Jun 1819
   Commencement of pension: 5 Jan 1819
   Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks: Died July 7, 1826.
   [Same James Thompson?]