Samuel Thompson

Not the same as Samuel Thomason, Sr.

Parents seen as

• Samuel Thompson Details P3 Nov 1667 28 Aug 1753
• Marie Margaret Milne Details 1673

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Thomson/Thompson

1. Samuel Thompson Born 1613 Scotland
2. William Thompson born April 15- 1635 Scotland died va Bu Louisa co. Scotland
3. Samuel Thomson- Born Dec 12-1691 Ayshire, Scotland married (1) Mary McDonald- had Thomas & William- (died 1727) Daughter of Clappy McDonald; Gline Bahiawapple, Scotland (2) Temperance Glass
4. Samuel Thompson born in 1734 d. 1784 Bu Louisa co. va married Nancy Ann Jennings (had nine children) one of their sons had Samuel Jr. had 17 children.
5. Waddy Thompson Born Nov. 16 1777 married Catherine Isom James Born 1780 Franklin co. va Both buried in Ky
6. Samuel Washington Thompson born 1801 va died 1850- Bu. Summer Shades Ky- m/1 Margurite (Mitchell) Harris m/2 Susan M. Gee
7. Jonathan Jackson Thompson (by Margurite) born March 5, 1829 died March 4-1904 bu. Liberal Kansas married July 24-1853 to Sarah Jane Field Born June 13-18- Holt co. Mo. Died Dec 29-1902 Bu. Liberal Kansas – Daughter of William Durritt Field & Eliza (Skimmerhorn) Fu. Born 1800
8. Samuel Logan Thompson married Anna Jane Baker.

Church of Latter Day Saints.

Research Notes

National Records of Scotland (ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk) has no record of the birth or christening of a Samuel Thomson or variant surname anywhere in Scotland 1686-96 or of any Thomson or variant on 31 Dec 1690-92.

• Mary McDonald 1705 1728 Marriage: May 1726 in Virginia, USA

Children

• David Thompson 1736 Nov 1769
• Elizabeth Thompson 1729

Children with Mary

• William Thompson 13 Aug 1727 27 Aug 1778

http://www.thompsonbranch.me/index.php/our-family-tree/jt-0-a-6/4!I...

Samuel Thompson was the son of Rev. Samuel S. Thompson & Mary McDonald.

”His mother died on Christmas Day, the day after he was born. He was given the name Samuel after his father because he was born so close to his father's birth date (Dec. 31). He was given the middle name of Yancey after his father remarried.”

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The father of Richard Thompson was Capt. John Thomson (notice the absence of the "p" in the name) who settled in North Carolina after immigrating from Ireland. Capt. John's father was Samuel Thomson, who with Carter Braxton, Richard Corbin, John Blair, Thomas Walker, Gilmer, and others made the earliest petition for a large "land grant" in the Big Sandy Valley. They sought the Honorable John, Earl of Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, April 25, 1772, for 59,000 acres of land beginning at the mouth of the Louisa River (later known as the Levisa Fork) and extending along the Big Sandy to the Ohio River. The next year, 1773, General William Thompson, a brother to Capt. John, came to the Lawrence Co. region and soon after the war ended (Revolutionary) Richard, Sr. came with his family and settled on both sides of the Big Sandy."

The Samuel Thompson that got the land grant in 1773 would not have been this Samuel since he died in 1753 unless land grants were granted posthumously.

Notes by James Oliver Thompson (b. 1935):

In the media for Samuel Thomson are pictures of documents from the Louisa County, Virginia Historical Museum. They show things of interest from Samuel Thomson’s life. Additionally, they illustrate life at that time before the American Revolution thus under British law.

Note the following in the document pictures:

- It appears slaves were registered by simply noting: Owner, sex, first name, age. Without last name it would be impossible to determine siblings, parents, etc. Coupled with the breakup of families this would make tracing almost impossible.

- About 1742, Samuel Thomson registered a slave as follows: “Phebe, a Negro girl belonging to Samuel Thomson, is adjudged to be nine years old.”

- “prophane swearing” and “willfully absenting themselves from Divine Service” netted a fine. Failure to pay fines were frequently followed by “the offender so neglecting receive on his or their bare back ten lashes well laid on”.

- Fishing on the Sabbath was a crime.

- 11th day of April 1743. Samuel Thompson petitioned to have improvements on 400 acres be valued and subsequently (13th June 1743) were, probably for tax purposes. On the same day (11th of April 1743) he was appointed Overseer of a road.

- Samuel Thomson served on juries twice, once a “Trepass Assault and Battery” case and again the 8th of August 1743 for an unstated crime.

- Samuel Thomson was paid for being a witness on 11th of July 1743.

- There are several cases where runaway slaves were captured and the reward wasn’t properly paid and thus brought to court.

- On 12th of November 1744 Samuel Thomson served on a grand jury for cases of: o “Prophane swearing” o “Living in continual fornication with Elizabeth Foard. o “Hunting on the Sabbath and cursing the woods at unseasonable times” o “Willfully absenting from Divine Services” o “Not keeping a road in good repair” o “Vagrants” o “General disturbance of the peace” o “Divulging false news”

- On 13th of June 1743 Samuel Thomson’s land was noted as a boundary for the sale of another’s land.

- On 9th of Mar 1742 John Thomson (probable son of Samuel Thompson) sold some land.

- On 8th Oct 1744 someone sold 450 acres to Samuel Thomson.

- On 5 July 1754 land previously owned by John Thomson was sold.

Emigrated by way of Wales, to the Virginia Colony in 1717, on account of persecution of his Anabaptist religious beliefs.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 26 2016, 0:10:21 UTC

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• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bianco/Resources/sam_will.html

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: May 12 2016, 22:00:20 UTC

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: May 12 2016, 22:00:20 UTC

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: May 12 2016, 22:00:20 UTC

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Arrival 1792 Virginia

Thompson and Fordyce surnames are associated with Gustave Anjou (c. 1863-1942), a forger of genealogies. Caution should be exercised with this line.

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