Colonel William F. Thompson

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From the pages of Americans of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors, Mrs. H. D. Pittman, Editor The first authoritative reference to the American branch of this family herein represented is found in Henning, Vol. XII, p. 118, as follows: "William Thompson, an officer in the English army, 1678, and a son of Sir Roger Thompson of England, had a daughter, Martha*, who married, 1699, Col James Taylor of Orange Co., son of James Taylor of Gloucester. They were the ancestors of President Madison. She died 1762, aged eighty-three. Her nephew, Sir Roger Thompson, lived in Blackwell's Neck in Hanover Co. This line became quite numerous, extending through Hanover, Louisa, Goochland and Albemarle, and there are at the present time numerous Thompsons of Kentucky." (Henning.) TAYLOR, James, POB King & Queen & THOMPSON, Martha d/o Col. Roger Thompson of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent; DOM 1699; ONKH - Source: Vital Records of Three Burned Counties: Births, Marriages, and Deaths of King and Queen, King William, and New Kent Counties, Virginia, 1680-1860, by Therese Fisher, Heritage Books, Inc. In the Henrico Records is found this entry: "In 1689 William Thompson witnessed a deed of Col. Byrd of Westover, and in that year published that he was going abroad for a visit." The family tradition is that William Thompson came over in command of a company of British soldiers about the time of Bacon's Rebellion. Concerning this story Dr. A. G. Grinnan, the well-known genealogist, says: "The English regiment (not company), as mentioned, came over soon after Bacon's Rebellion. After being here three years they were disbanded by Lord Culpepper, and paid off in depreciated currency as narrated in Beverley's Hist. of Va. and I suppose Col. Thompson then left the service." (Grinnan.) In the London Domestic State Papers, in a list of naval officers, Abbott found Capt. Roger Thompson. As he found nothing of his subsequent services it is presumed that he probably resigned his commission to take possession of his estate; for Col. Wm. Thompson, 1678, was known in Virginia as "a son of Sir Roger Thompson," and William's grandson as "Sir Roger" (Henning). This fact has been handed down in the family along with the coat of arms and the ancestral names of Roger Thompsons of Yorkshire, George, William, John, Richard, and particularly Frances, Roger and Leonard. Abbott also found in the "Herald's Visitation" of Yorkshire, 1563-4, "Roger Thompson, seated at Scarborough, who had two sons, John and William (who died without issue), and a daughter, Aune, who became his heiress." She married her cousin Richard Thompson, of Kilham, thus merging the Roger Thompson line into another branch. Their son, William, of Hambleton, married the daughter and heir of John Barker (elsewhere it says Baker) and had Richard, Esq., of Kilham, born 1580, who married Anne, daughter of Edward of Neilthorpe. Col. Wm. Thompson had, besides Martha, (Martha was the d/o Roger) a son, John, who married Rebecca, kinswoman of Leiut. Col. William Claiborne...and had a son, Col. Roger Thompson, known as "Sir Roger," who lived at Blackwell's Neck (Henning), who married Anne, daughter of Joseph Foster, and had children (emphasis mine) among them Joseph Thompson, born 1703, who married a kinswoman, Sarah Claiborne, born 1713, daughter of Lieut. Col. Thomas (son of Col. William Claiborne, Secretary and Treasurer of the Colony, and his wife, Aune West Fox, granddaughter of Gov. John West, son of Sir Thomas West, II Lord Delaware. They had ten children, Joseph, Mary, Frances, Aune Fox, Aune Claiborne, Elizabeth, and sons; Roger, George, Leonard and John, patriots of the American Revolution. (note: Only the sons and daughters, Frances and Sarah, are mentioned in Joseph's will.) They sold their estates in Virginia, and with their land script from the government, located large bodies of land in Central Kentucky, and built handsome homes, to which they brought their families from Virginia. Burke shows that there were several branches seated in Yorkshire, the Thompsons of Kirby, Kirk Deighton, of Kilham, the Thompsons of York and the Leonard Thompsons branch at Sheriff Hutton. It is through the line of Richard & Anne, daughter & heiress of Sir Roger Thompson that the main line in this country runs, and through a marriage into the Leonard Thompson branch of "Sheriff Hutton" came the wife of Col. Wm. Thomson, of the Royal Army, who came to America. The Herald's Visitation shows the Roger Thompson branch at Scarborough, Burke shows that they all intermarried to such an extent that it is well nigh impossible at this distance to separate the different strains of blood. <snip> Roger, eldest son of Joseph and Sarah Claiborne Thompson, married Sallie Lightfoot, and had: I.-Joseph II, who married Elizabeth James. II.-George W., who married Harriet James, of Hanover Co., Va., and had children, 1, Sarah A., who married Thomas Taylor; 2, Thruston, married Elizabeth Mason; 3, Bettie B., married R. S. Taylor; 4, Harriet T., married Mr. Kimble. III.-Sarah, who married Mr. Timberlake, of Kentucky, and had, 1, Georgianna, who married James Taylor; 2, Lucy; 3, Polly, both of whom married George B. Thompson; 4, William who married Miss Brand, of St. Louis, and had children, Robert, Mary, William, Gertrude, James, Ida, Rebecca and Fred. IV.-Foster, who married Miss Williams, whose father was a naval officer, and had children, Isaac, Joseph, Lucy, Jane, Maurice, James, Arnold, and David. Joseph II, son of Roger Thompson, married Elizabeth James, a descendant of the Earl of Camden, whose wife was the daughter of Charles I, and had one son and three daughters: Joseph Addison, who married Amanda Singleton, and died without children; Ann, who married Thomas Hooe; Mary McClung and Eliza Morris. (Eliza Morris married Dr. John Atwood Tomlinson.) <snip> XII. Henry, son of Sir Richard and ?, married ______ Wellburne. XIII. Richard Thomson, son of Henry and _____Wellburne, married his cousin Ann Thomson. She was the daughter of Sir Roger Thomson of Scarborough who was a lineal descendent of Dunkin 1st, King of Scotland, A.D. 1054-40, through Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert 1st. William Thomson, son of Richard and Ann, married ______(an heiress of John Barker or Baker) and died without issue. Richard Thomson; Married his cousin, Anne Thomson, daughter of Edward Thomson; died without issue. XIIII. Anne Thomson: Married William Thomson, her cousin. XV. Sir Edward Thomson: Married Frances Thomson, his cousin, daughter of Leonard Thomson, Sheriff of Hutton. XVI. Sir Roger Thomson: The name of his wife not known. XVII. Col. William Thomson: Came to Virginia in 1669. The name of his wife is not known. His known progeny: John Thomson: Married Rebecca Claiborne in Virginia. Martha Thomson*: Married James Taylor in Virginia. Martha was the d/o Col. Roger Thomson