Person:John Thompson (226)

John Thompson
b.Bef 1615
d.1656
  • HJohn ThompsonBef 1615 - 1656
  • WDorothy _____Bef 1620 - Bef 1666
m. Bef 1640
  1. Hannah ThompsonEst 1640 - 1712/13
  2. John ThompsonEst 1642 - 1692/93
  3. Mary ThompsonEst 1645 - 1714
  4. Joseph ThompsonEst 1648 - Est 1703
  5. Abigail Thompson1651/52 - Bef 1727
  6. Rebecca Thompson1651/52 - Aft 1727
  7. Sarah Thompson1654 - 1716
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] John Thompson
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1615 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1640 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Hannah).
to Dorothy _____
Residence[1] East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] 1656
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thompson, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
    7:1750.

    "John (Thompson), d 1656; res. EH; …"

  2. John Thompson, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:285.

    "John Thompson, New Haven, first of many of the name there, call. sen. brot. sev. ch. prob. with w. from Eng. here, perhaps, by ano. w. had Rebecca, and Abigail, tw. 26 Jan. 1652; and Sarah, 30 Apr. 1654, was one of the contract sett. in 1639, and d. a. 1656. His wid. m. that yr. Thomas Harrison; but the est. was not sett. for sev. yrs. aft. her d. Of seven ch. entit. to shares, John, Joseph, Hannah, Mary, Rebecca, Abigail, and Sarah, the first, as eldest, hav. double sh. only the three last are ment. in the rec. of b.

    [Additions and Corrections[ [Savage 4:710] [Vol. 4] P. 285. l. 17 from bot. aft. 6. [error for b.] add, His d. Abigail m. first, Jonathan Curtis, next, Nicholas Huse, and d. 1731, wid. of Samuel Sherman."

    The Abigail Thompson who married Curtis, Huse and Sherman was daughter of John Thompson of Stratford.

  3.   John Thompson, in Alcorn, Winifred S. Abstracts of the Early Probate Records of New Haven, Book 1, Part 1, 1647-1687. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1927)
    81:133.

    "Thompson, John. Inventory, taken [no date] by Richard Miles and Henry Lindon, £250:13:04."

    Although undated, this record must refer to this John Thompson since Henry Lindon died in 1660.