<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings from your western neighbor (Niles, MI),<DIV>Betty Lou Morris<DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>The John Thompson of Mendon has always been a question mark gleaned from my pedigree chart studies.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> On Ancestry.com the Wilkins/Rhinehart by owner bethhallanger back tracks that line from Charles Blancher Thompson,>David Thompson (1771-1849)>Elisha (1745-1812)>David Thompson (1711-1757)>David Thompson (1687-1704)-[with this David born in Mendon, MA] but his father Jonathan 1645-1691 (wife Thankful Woodland) born and died in Woburn near Boston, MA. If this is so, Jonathan would have to had traveled to Mendon in his life time.</DIV><DIV> I have visited the library at Mendon and their records are small.</DIV><DIV> With this pedigree chart there is no documention. In the book "First Yankee" there is more documentation and a greater possibility that the Charles Blancher line came this way. </DIV><DIV> In all genealogical studies we go from the known to the unknown. We 'hang onto' the most plausible. Quint Thompson</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:41 PM, morrisb wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="550125622-15122008"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff"> 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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="550125622-15122008"><FONT face="Arial"> Betty Lou Morris</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="550125622-15122008"><FONT face="Arial"> Mount Clemens, MI</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> tommies-bounces@wellswooster.com [<A href="mailto:tommies-bounces@wellswooster.com">mailto:tommies-bounces@wellswooster.com</A>]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Alyce Elliott<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 15, 2008 8:36 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:dick@hodgman.org">dick@hodgman.org</A>; Discussion list for David THOMSON & Amias COLE descendants andresearchers.<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Tommies] Welcome Sharon Thompson from Alberta<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>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:<BR><A href="http://www.wellswooster.com/tommies/alyce.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.wellswooster.com/tommies/alyce.htm</A><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Alyce Thompson Elliott<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>At 10:11 AM 12/14/2008, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class="cite" cite="" type="cite">Tommies,<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>Please join me in welcoming Sharon to our group. <BR><BR>--Dick<BR>============================<BR>Dick Hodgman<BR><A href="mailto:dick@hodgman.org">dick@hodgman.org</A><BR><A href="http://hodgman.org/" eudora="autourl">http://hodgman.org/</A><BR><BR>p.s. 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