Lt. John Thompson

John Thompson, Sr.

• Gender:Male
• Birth:Oct 1 1610 Shropshire, England
• Marriage: Spouse: Elizabeth Anna Sherwood Apr 14 1646 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Death: before 1657 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
• Parents: John Thompson Sr. &Beatrice Thompson (born Detton)

Daniel Finch married after 25 Dec 1657, as his 2nd, to Elizabeth (Unknown) Thompson; widow of John Thompson. She died by 1658.

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Conflicting data 15 Sept 2019

• Birth Date before October 1, 1610 / February 6, 1616
• Birth Location Stourton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom / Burford, Shropshire, England
• Death Date June 11, 1674 / April 12, 1655
• Death Location Stratford, Fairfield County, CT, United States

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183924916

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Internet Archive digital version of original : Parke, N. Grier II; Jacobus, Donald L., editor. The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. https://archive.org/details/ancestryoflorenz00jaco/page/58/mode/2up
Pertinent text, p 57:
"JOHN THOMPSON
"FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT
"Like so many other towns, Fairfield had a John1 Thompson among its early settlers. Of his origin, nothing is known. He died in 1657, the inventory of his estate being taken in June of that year. The probate records mention his widow and state the ages of the four children: Elizabeth (13), Mary (8), John (6), and Hester (3). The widow Elizabeth made a marriage covenant, 25 Dec. 1657, with Daniel Finch of Fairfield, and died the following year. Francis Hall and George Godwin were appointed feofees, and at Godwin’s death, William Heyden was appointed in his place. When Elizabeth Finch died, Hall and Heyden succeeded her as administrators.
"Heyden appears to have mismanaged the estate; at all events, after his removal to Westchester County, N. Y., the Thompson heirs sued his estate, and recovered judgment. On 4 Apr. 1672, in the record of a sale from Robert Turney to John Wheeler, one of the boundaries mentioned was 'land of John Tomsons Children somtimes the land of Willm Hayden.' On 28 Jan. 1673 [1673/4], Elizabeth wife of Thomas Bennet, Mary wife of John Bennet, and Ester Tomson had land recorded which was theirs 'by vertue of execution in Will m Haydens estate'; and John Bennet purchased from Thomas Bennet a third part, and from Hester Tomson a third part. The homelot, however, came into possession of Thomas Bennet, who in 1687 conveyed to his son Thomas the homelot that was once John Thompson’s.
"Thomas Bennett, Jr., in the Disbrow witchcraft trial, 1692, mentioned his uncle John Gruman, Sr.; while John Gruman, Jr., in 1701 referred to his uncle, Sergt. John Thompson as administrator of the estate of his father John Gruman, Sr.
"Children of John and Elizabeth (____) Thompson:
"+i. Elizabeth 2, b. abt. 1644; m. Thomas Bennett.
"ii. Mary, b. abt. 1649; m. John Bennett.
"iii. John, b. abt. 1651; d. 1 Mar, 1734 ae. 83 (g.s.); Deacon, Fairfield Church; m. in 1684, Sarah Gold, b. abt. 1661, d. 4 June 1747 in her 87th year (g.s.), dau. of Maj. Nathan and Sarah (Phippen) Gold.
"iv. Hester, b. abt. 1654; m. John Gruman."

ALSO, pertinent sources cited, p 57:
"a. Fairfield Probate Records, 1:37, 38; 5:79.
"b. Fairfield Land Records, A: 177, 329.
"c. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, 1:66, 603-4."'