[Tommies] Thomson/Earl of Arundel/East India Company

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Virginia,
It is my belief that David Thomson was of Corstorphine - outside of Edinburg, Scotland.  His father's 2nd marriage to Agnes Foullis linked him the Sec'y of State of Scotland, Thomas Hamilton.  In addition, David's step-brother, Adam Hepburn was the legal clerk to Sec'y at the time of Thomson's grant to Piscataqua and being designated as the acting governor of Massachusetts, according to the 1622/23 grant.  King James ruled Scotland "by the pen" as he lived in England.  He did that through Hamilton.  There are many other tie-ins to King James.  But clearly, in 1625, David Thomson had a special relationship with the Earl of Arundel and acted as his agent in America.

David was a Scotsman according to those who knew him.  Robert Thomson was an Englishman.  There may be a relationship, but I spent years looking, but never found one.

William Crowne, the Earl of Arundel's right hand man eventually betrayed Arundel and settled in Mendon Mass, where John Thomson who also settled in Mendon - David's son - considered him an enemy.
Genevieve

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Virginia Thomson-Baldwin 
  To: tommies at wellswooster.com 
  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:03 PM
  Subject: [Tommies] Thomson/Earl of Arundel/East India Company


  In response to this comment:


  David Thomson's letter 
  to Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel proves his close relationship to him. 
  William Crowne in his younger days was a "servant" - clerk to Thomas Howard,
  the Earl and got his start through him


  http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/business/business13.html 


  By 1639, the East India Company at Surat owned a few country ships (regional traders only, not necessarily beholden to Company authority), and they in various ways saved the Company money. In early 1639 the East India Company was appalled as the Earl of Arundel with the king's backing wanted to get to the east; his plan resembled the Earl of Southampton's venture to settle Mauritius. And that idea simply revived an abandoned project of Prince Rupert. 
  Earl Arundel: This was Thomas Howard (1585-1646), fourteenth Earl Arundel, Earl Norfolk. See Mary F. S. Hervey, The Life, Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. Cambridge University Press, 1921. Kraus Reprint, New York, 1969; genealogical tables. Lorimer, (Ed.), Amazon, p. 194, Note 3. GEC, Peerage, Arundel, p. 255; Norfolk, pp. 624ff.

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  There may be a Thomson connection, however, Maurice Thomson's brother, Robert, was born in 1622 and he, as far as anyone knows, was the last son born into that family.

  Virginia



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