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Philip Rootes Thompson

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Birthplace: Culpeper, Culpeper County, Province of Virginia
Death: July 23, 1837 (70)
Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Rev. John Thompson and Elizabeth Thompson
Husband of Susannah Thompson and Sarah Elizabeth Thompson
Father of Eleanor Thompson; Robert A. Thompson, U.S. Congress; Lieutenant William Henry Thompson; John Thompson; Helena M Thompson and 2 others
Brother of Mildred Rootes Gray and Judge John Thompson
Half brother of Ann Thornton and William Thompson

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About Philip Rootes Thompson

Birth: Mar. 26, 1766 Fredericksburg City Virginia, USA Death: Jul. 27, 1837 Saint Albans Kanawha County West Virginia, USA

U.S. House of Representatives, Lawyer He was elected a Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1793 to 1797. Served in U.S. House of Representatives 18th Congressional District, from 1801 to 1803. Served again from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1807 in House of Representatives from the 9th district. He gave land for a church at the mouth of the Coal River and named it St. Mark's for his father's Culpeper County parish. He built the first house, still standing, in St. Albans.

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Parents:
 John Thompson (1720 - 1772)

Burial: Cremated, Other. Specifically: Buried at St. Albans, West Virginia

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Philip Rootes Thompson's Timeline

1767
March 18, 1767
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Province of Virginia
1782
1782
VA
1803
1803
Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States
1805
February 14, 1805
Hilly Farm, Culpeper, Virginia, United States
1805
1818
March 26, 1818
Kanawha City, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States
1820
March 28, 1820
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States
1837
July 23, 1837
Age 70
Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States
1871
December 11, 1871
Addington, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand