[Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

Fri Feb 20 12:51:55 EST 2009

Betty Lou,
I am basing my Sarah comment on his will which speaks of her.  I found the "drunk" document at the Massachusetts archives.  The Inn in Mendon is part of Mendon history.  Everything I am writing you is based on memory.  When I write for the public I have documents in front of me.

My research on David and his family is taking me down some interesting rabbit holes.  That is what I am most focusing on now - and doing massive amounts of research.  Check out David's seal posted on the Tommy site.  It is dominated by a Templar cross above the stag's head.  Corstorphine was a major Templar holding and the first instance of Arabic numerals in Scotland is etched into the church which was built by the Forrester family in the 1400s.  The Templars were tied in with Islamic as well as Christian leaders.  There is also a Templar headstone at the church and Freemasonic symbols.  The Forrester/Thomsons had Sinclair bloodlines tied in with Rosslyn (ala the DaVinci Code).  David's father, Rev. Magister Richard Thomson's parish was at Ratho - loaded with Templar and Masonic symbols, graves etc.  The Corstophine Kirk is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the early Masonic patron saint.  There's lot's more too...  I have visited the Ratho as well as the Corstorphine Kirks but have yet to visit Rosslyn.  Rev. Thomson's monies (tiends) and appointments were all directly from King James and his annual salary was about 500 lbs per year - in the late 1500s - a lot of money at that time!! 
Genevieve

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: morrisb 
  To: 'Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendantsandresearchers.' 
  Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:26 AM
  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Genevieve,

    Thanks for sending more clues.  I did not know about John Thompson's coming home drunk from Maverick's house (where?), or his being the first tavern owner in Mendon. Where can I find these events recorded?  How did his "darling Sarah" help save John and where is this written?  You have read and absorbed so much more of the story of David and John Thompson than any of the rest of us.  I hope you will be sharing it (with sources) with us before too very long.  I want to still be living when this happens!

    Betty Lou

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  Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:43 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Betty Lou,

  Another clue I uncovered is a document where a John Thompson was fined for being drunk after returning from Maverick's house.  I have often wondered if he had a drinking problem which caused him to loose everything until his darling Sarah helped save him.  If you recall, John opened the first tavern (ordinary house I think they were called) in Mendon.  If he was a strict Puritan I doubt that would have been an option.

  Genevieve

  PS  Also I saw a match between the John Thompson flowing signature in relation to Noodles Island with the flowing handwriting of the partial signature we have from John of Mendon.  As for spelling - it changed from day to day for some.  But if a Scottish Thomson was born in England, chances are he would use the Thompson spelling.  David Thomson's signature is clearly the Scottish spelling, yet the grant for Massachusetts lists him as Mr. David Thompson, Gent. - as do the Minutes of the Council for New England meetings.

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  Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:16 PM

  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Betty Lou,

  I learned about William Crowne when I visited the Getty Museum several years ago.  They had rare documents and info on Arundel.  I also learned a bit when I visited London several years ago.  Details will be in my book.  It is currently packed away in one of my many truck loads of materials.  (Check out William Crowne on Wiki - though I usually don't consider the site reliable, I believe it does mention the relationship.)

  The Maverick info regarding owning land in Weymouth I uncovered many years ago.  Currently, I am researching other areas and won't be digging back into other documents for awhile.  I literally have every room in my house loaded with documents and books.  I hope to start unpacking some of these documents over the summer.  I haven't a clue where it is hidden.  I spent years on my WW II project and put everything else aside.  I am also working on a book about the Middle East as I work on the Thomson story.  There is some overlap in terms of the Thomson/Forrester/Corstorphine Templar background.

  Genevieve

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  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: morrisb 

  To: 'Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendantsandresearchers.' 

  Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:59 PM

  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Genevieve,

    I really appreciate your comments and suggestions of persons connected with our John Thompson who also had a relationship with David.  Can you suggest any sources for information about Thomas and William Crowne?  How do we know that Samuel Maverick was in  Weymouth/Mendon?  

    Col. Amy was great about putting the Thompson family genealogy together, but he didn't give any sources - at least not that I know of.

    Betty Lou

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  Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:41 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Betty Lou,

  John Thomson settled in Mendon as did William Crowne.  David Thomson wrote a three page letter to Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel.  Clearly, they knew one another quite well based on the contents of the letter - both deferential-formal yet intimate.  Thomas Crowne worked for Arundel as a young man.  The point I was making is that Puritans-Pilgrims settled in certain areas and the Council for New England agents such as Thomson settled in another.  Thomson was a tolerant man as was Maverick.  The others were ultra-conservative.  Puritan leaders were tar and feathering, hanging and disemboweling Catholics, Quakers and Jews at one point.  Many in Mendon became Quakers. I suspect our ancestors did and moved to RI before heading out to NH/VT.

  Genevieve

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  From: morrisb 

  To: 'Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendantsandresearchers.' 

  Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:58 PM

  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Genevieve,

    Your comments of February 3rd are very helpful in my quest to find sources that show that our John Thompson was the son of David.  I would like to pursue the connection of William Crowne and Samuel Maverick to Weymouth where our John Thompson settled and would appreciate any suggestions you might have for sources that would place them there.  What was William Crowne's connection with David (or John) Thompson?  I know Samuel Maverick was John's stepfather.  If you think of any sources that would help I will try to check them out.  Thanks!

    Betty Lou 

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  Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:45 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Betty,

  Thanks for taking the time to research the RIHS records.  Mrs. Haviland also wrote on Medfield and Uxbridge History.  Uxbridge is important if you are looking for a Quaker connection - which I suspect from one of my ancestors who moved to Smithfield, RI - a Quaker hotbed that met in Uxbridge for meetings.  Medfield is where our ancestors escaped to when the Indians turned their anger on Mendon during the King Philip War.

  Along with the date of birth, the association with the Whites in Weymouth and Mendon, and William Crowne offer additional clues.  Crowne was also associated with Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel as was David Thomson (remember his 3-page letter in 1625 to the Earl.)  Also, Samuel Maverick also held land in Weymouth.  It was where the Gorges associated folks lived while the Pilgrims and Puritans spread their wings throughout the Commonwealth.

  Refer back to the Massachusetts grant naming David as the governor under the Council for New England.  He is referred to Mr. David Thompson, Gent.   To use Mr. and Gent. in the same title is redundant.  It is believed by at least one major historian, David Howarth, author of Arundel and His Circle, that David was a ship's Master.  I have also found a Mr. Thompson, Master of the ship Jonathan in early Virginia Records - about 1619.  Recall the letter - he mentions his impression of folks in the South - not flattering.

  John was referred to as Mr. John Thompson when he was a ship's master, but we all know he lost everything.  Goodman means landowner.  A person can be more than one thing in one's lifetime.  Frankly, I find Richardson's analysis to be idiotic.  Because he is referred to as Goodman in Mendon he cannot be the same person as Mr. John Thomson - a title he held when he was a ship's master!!

  Best Wishes,

  Genevieve

  PS  The Mendon Families by Havilard is also on microfilm available from Mormon Research Centers.  

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  From: morrisb 

  To: 'Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendantsandresearchers.' 

  Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:00 PM

  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Genevieve,

    Yes, I believe it is probably the book you describe.  Early last month Ms. Lee Teverow, Reference Librarian at the RIHS,  answered my inquiry about a hand-written book of records or recollections about early Mendon.  She wrote:  

     "Thank you for your inquiry regarding the book about Mendon, MA. There are two items listed in our catalog that might be what you're looking for. The first is "Mendon families," by Elizabeth Seamans Haviland (RR F 74 M59 H28) and it comprises 5 volumes of handwritten genealogical materials arranged alphabetically by name of family. The second is "The proprietors records of the town of Mendon, MA, incorporated May 15, 1667," transcribed from manuscript records (RR F 74 M59 M54.)" 

    I asked Christine Lamar, a researcher on the list that Ms. Teverow sent to me, to look at these two books with our problem of identifying John Thompson of Mendon with John Thompson, son of David and heir to Thompson's Island in mind.  She reported as follows:

        "The two books you suggested I evaluate are as described. I was not allowed to make copies from either:

        1. The Proprietors Records of Mendon, Massachusetts, incorporated May 15, 1667. Boston, Rockwell & Churchill Press, 1899. It is a printed transcript produced by members of committees from six Massachusetts towns. It is land records which do not appear to add anything definitive to your David/John Thompson question.

        2. Mendon Families by Mrs. Frank Haviland. n.d. (ca. 1901-1929) unpub., unpaged, bound mss in 5 v. The volume I looked at was V. 5 TH-Z. 
        Contained the following:

        David and Amyes (sic)
        son John Thomson 1619- 9 Nov 1685, m. Sarah
        son John b. 1642- 1715 m. Thankful Woodland
        dau Mehitable (no birth date given) m. Samuel Hayward 9 June 1670
        dau Sarah b. 2 July 1644 m. John Aldrich 1678 son of George and Catherine

        A list of John's- b. 1642- children was also given as follows.
        John 1667-1749 one of the early settlers of Bellingham
        Sarah 12 May 1669
        Ebenezer 1 Oct 1677
        Samuel 4 Feb 1679-1704
        Woodland 27 Jan 1681
        Benjamin 17 Sept 1681
        David 24 May 1687
        Hannah 3 Aug 1689

        There was no indication of sources or mention of Thompson's Island."

          Ms. Lamar looked at other sources at RIHS but found nothing that suggested that John Thompson of Thompson's Island was the same as John Thompson of Mendon.  Except for the fact that they were born in the same year and that John Jr. of Mendon named a son David, either man's timeline stands independent of the other's.  There is nothing that contradicts their being the same man (except Douglas Richardson's article) but nothing connects them, either.  I hate to continue claiming David as an ancestor when respected genealogists seem to doubt it.  Let's hope we can find the "smoking gun"!

          Betty Lou.

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  Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 11:16 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  Betty,

  Is the Mendon Families a cloth bound, hand-sewn document which mentions Amias and David at the top of the Thompson section?

  Genevieve

  From: morrisb 

  To: 'Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendantsandresearchers.' 

  Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:28 PM

  Subject: [Tommies] John Thompson, son of David

  To Gen Fraser and all Tommies:  Trying to find evidence that John Thompson son of David and John Thompson of Weymouth and Mendon are one and the same person, I followed your clue that there was a hand-written item at the Rhode Island Historical Society library with this information.  I contacted the reference librarian there and was told they had two items that were hand-written and concerned Mendon.  I hired a researcher from the library's list to look at these two items. 

     One was The Proprietors' Records of Mendon, mostly land records, and does not "appear to add anything definitive to our David/John Thompson question."

    The second is Mendon Families by Mrs. Frank Haviland, n.d..(about 1901-1929) and repeats the lineage of David to John and through the Mendon Thompsons -- as we have long accepted it to be --but includes no sources.

    I continue to hope we will find proof someday that our John Thompson, of Weymouth and Mendon was the same person as John Thompson, son of David.  The two men were born in the same year and tradition says they were the same man but we need more than this to convince other genealogists.

    Betty Lou 

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  From: tommies-bounces at wellswooster.com [mailto:tommies-bounces at wellswooster.com]On Behalf Of morrisb
  Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:41 PM
  To: 'Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendantsandresearchers.'
  Subject: Re: [Tommies] Welcome Sharon Thompson from Alberta

    Thanks, Gen, for your response about the proof that John, son of David Thompson, was the same person as John Thompson of Mendon.  I wonder if any of the Tommies has in his/her records the citations for the date, place and source for (1) the birth of John, son of David and  (2) John of Mendon?  Does anyone have a citation for the  late 18th/early 19th century hand-written book from Mendon at the Rhode Island Historical Society that lists David as the father of John?  I looked at the RIHS online catalogue and did not find it there.  Does anyone on the Tommies list have access to that library?

    Betty Lou

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  Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 11:24 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Tommies] Welcome Sharon Thompson from Alberta

  Betty Lou,

  I don't have the facts at my fingertips, but John of Mendon was the same age as John, David's son.  There are other reasons too including a late 18th century/early 19th century handwritten book in the RI historical society from Mendon that lists David as the father of John.

  Genevieve

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  From: Quintin Thompson 

  To: Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendants andresearchers. 

  Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 11:11 AM

  Subject: Re: [Tommies] Welcome Sharon Thompson from Alberta

  Hi, Gen  sometime ago you gave remarks supporting this claim.  I have a print out of it.  Maybe you can up date it and pass it on to Betty Lou.   Quint 

  On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:41 PM, morrisb wrote:

    Let me add my greetings of welcome to you, Sharon.  We Tommies are a pretty scattered and diverse group, but we all claim David Thompson  as an ancestor.  My particular hang up is the question of proof that John Thompson of Mendon, MA, from whom we all descend, is the same man as John Thompson, son of David.  If you have any information to help with this, please let us know.

    Betty Lou Morris

    Mount Clemens, MI

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  From: tommies-bounces at wellswooster.com [mailto:tommies-bounces at wellswooster.com]On Behalf Of Alyce Elliott
  Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 8:36 PM
  To: dick at hodgman.org; Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendants andresearchers.
  Subject: Re: [Tommies] Welcome Sharon Thompson from Alberta

  Hi Sharon, thanks for joining us.  I believe I know your Uncle Frank, if it's the same Frank Thompson -- met him on this list.  You and I (and others on the list including Frank) share an ancestor: C. B. Thompson, my great grandfather.  I'm eleventh generation wrt David Thomson, see my line here:
  http://www.wellswooster.com/tommies/alyce.htm

  Do we have the same line in common?  At least up to Charles?  Welcome to the Tommies list and I look forward to seeing further posts from you.

  Alyce Thompson Elliott

  At 10:11 AM 12/14/2008, you wrote:

  Tommies,

  On Monday, 11/17/08,I received the Fall 2008 newsletter from Thompson Island Outward Bound.  On the back page (attached to this message), I found that Sharon Thompson of Alberta, Canada had visited Thompson Island and wanted to reach out to other descendants of David Thompson.  I contacted her by email, gave her a synopsis of our 2001 (Re)union, and pointed her to the Tommies website.  She has joined our email list.  

  Please join me in welcoming Sharon to our group.  

  --Dick
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