Captain Joseph Thomson

B.F. Thompson in an excellent article in the Springfield, Mass. Republican gives an excellent resume of the family from the Scotch-Irish ancestor, James, to the date of writing from which we take much data. (See Historical section first of this book.) He notes the “Great Exodus” of young people from Mass. And Conn. In 1750-1790 to the new El Dorado, the valley of the Onion (Winooski) river in Vt., and attributes it to their love of adventure. (Often Rev. War and other war service was paid by land in Vt. And N.H. and elsewhere the Indians were still a menace and often massacred the settlers, -A.M.S.); that this Joseph Thomson with many of his brothers and sisters and neighbors, about 1790 pushed into the wilderness becoming the first settlers in Barre, Vt., and that Joseph located his farm on “Mill Stone Hill” under which soil lay the famous granite quarries of the town; that in the War of 1812 he went to the frontier and was a captain (no legal papers to prove it) and some traditions say a colonel.

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