Martha Wade Thompson

pension application:

http://revwarapps.org/w1000.pdf

W 1000 THOMPSON, BENJAMIN, born ca 1760, VA, died 12 July 1825, Coke Co.,

TN.

Wife, Martha Wade Walker, d/o Benjamin, born ca 1772, died 15 July 1864,

Bradley Co., TN. 

Benjamin resided at either Mecklenburg or Brunswick Co., VA when he entered

the service. He served at the Battle of Monmouth, at Valley Forge, at the

Battles of White Plains and Stoney Point; also Battle of Brandywine. His

rank was Corporal of Infantry in the Continental and VA Line. 

On 18 Aug 1791, he was married by Wm. Holt, Esq. to Martha Wade Walker,

daughter of Benjamin Walker, who gave them a deed of gift dated 27 Nov

1792, as follows:

"I, Benjamin Walker of Cumberland Co., NC, ...a negro girl named Cleo, one

featherbed, bed stand, one cow, one calf, one bridle,

one side saddle, two trunks, a spinning wheel, 200 acres land adjoining

Joseph Hinton [Hunter?] on Moor Co. which he purchased

of Abner Hill [?]." 

Dated 27 Nov 1792. Witnesses: Benjamin Evans, Joseph Yarbrough, Edm.

Carlisle, Charles Maton [?].

The original bible of Benjamin Thompson, Sr. was The New Testament out of

the Original Greek, Printed at Cambridge by John Archdeacon & John Burke,

dated 1795. Children of Benjamin and Martha W. [Walker] Thompson: