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(II) Jonathan, youngest son of James Thomp- son, was born in England, probably about 1630, and was married November 28. 1655, to Susanna Blod- gett, of Cambridge, a daughter of his father's second wife, and bearing the same name. There is good reason for believing that he lived in the house built by his father, near the junction of Elm and Trav- erse street, traces of which some of the oldest citizens of North Woburn still remember. It is probable that his father lived with him in his old age and bequeathed to the son his homestead. Not much is know of the personal history of Jonathan. From the town records it is learned that he was one of three teachers of schools and the first male teacher ever employed under the authority of the town. This was from 1673-75. In the year last named. he and his good wife shared the responsibility and labor, "he to tech biger children, and she to tech leser children," the two to receive one sovereign between them for their services. In subsequent yars he served as constable of the town, and still later as town sexton. He died October 20. 1691, and his wife February 6. 1698. Their children were Susan- nah. Jonathan. James (died young), James, Sarah. Simon and Ebenezer. (Mention of Simon and descendants formis part of this article.)
(III) Jonathan (2), eldest son and second child of Jonathan (1) Thompson, was born September 28, 1663, and is believed to have lived in the house already designated as the probable home of his fa- ther and grandfather in North Woburn. He was one of the town "tything men." He was also on a com- mittee in 1728 to go to the great and general court and give the reasons why the petition of Goshen. or that part of Woburn which subsequently became Wilmington, should not be granted. He was also, in the same year, one of a committee of nine "to goe to the Reverend M. Fox to see if they can make things easier with him." He married Frances Whitmore, a daughter of Francis Whitmore of Cam- bridge. His death is supposed to have occurred in 1748. His children were Jonathan, Hannah, Joseph, James, Susannah, Ebenezer, Mary, Samuel, Patience. Esther. Jabez, and Daniel.
(IV) Samuel, fifth son and eight child of Jon- athan (2) and Frances (Whitmore) Thompson, was born September 8, 1705, in what is now North Wo- burn. About 1730, probably. he built the house on North Elm street. North Woburn, which has been the home of six generations of Thompsons. It is not now occupied by people of the name. He was largely engaged in getting out ship timber for his brothers, who were ship builders in Medfield. While unloading timber in the spring of 1748 he received a severe injury which was followed by a fever re- sulting in his death. May 13, 1748, while in his forty- third year. His wife, Ruth Wright, was a daughter of Joseph Wright, and a great granddaughter of Captain John Carter, one of the first settlers of
Woburn. They were married December 31, 1730, and she survived him more than twenty-seven years, dying October 3, 1775. Their children were: Sam- uel, Daniel, Ruth, Abijah, Mary, Phoebe, Lois and Jonathan.
(\') Mary, second daughter and fifth child of Samuel and Ruth (Wright) Thompson, was born May 24, 1741, and became the wife of Benjamin Thompson. (Sce Thompson V.)
(III) Simon, fourth son and sixth child of Jon- athan (I) and Susanna (Blodgett) Thompson. was born June 16, 1673. in Woburn, and lived in Woburn precinct. On March 8, 1700, the selectmen made a contract with him to "ring the bell, sweep the meet- ing house, see to shut the casings and doors as neat requires." He died December 12, 1736. He was married December 12, 1700, to Anna (or Hannah) Butterfield. Their children were: Hannah, Simon, Lydia and Elizabeth.
(IV) Simon (2). only son of Simons (1) and Anna (Butterfield) Thompson, was born April 4. 1706, in Woburn, and lived for a number of years in Woburn precinct, where his children were born It is probable that he removed to Kingston. No rec- ord of him appears in Woburn after the birth of his children. He was married October 26, 1732, to Martha Wright, who survived him and passed her last days in Woburn, dying July 4, 1783. Their children were: Elizabeth, Benjamin, William and Isaac.
(V) Benjamin. eldest son and second child of Simon (2) and Martha (Wright) Thompson, was born December 20, 1735, in Woburn, and resided in Kingston, New Hampshire. He was there married in 1759, to Mary Thompson, daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Wright) Thompson, who was born May 24, 1741. (See Thompson IX.) She survived him and in 17So, became the wife of George Jackman, who was born October 28. 1735. and was the first town clerk of Boscawen, New Hampshire. The chil- dren of Benjamin and Mary Thompson were: Benjamin. Moses, James, Mary, Robert, Sarah and Betsey. Benjamin Thompson served in the Revo- lutionary war, and never returned from that service.
(VI) Robert, fourth son and fifth child of Ben- jamin and Mary (Thompson) Thompson, was born September 12, 1774, and died 1803. in Warner, New Hampshire. His wife, Judith Noyes, was born Octo- ber 15. 1777, in Bow, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Thompson) Noyes (see Noyes, VI).
(VII) Mary, daughter of Robert and Judith (Noyes) Thompson, was born December 4, 1799, in Bow, and became the wife of Jeremiah Hall Wilkins (see Wilkins, VI).
There is ample record that several
THOMPSON of this name were among our earliest seventeenth century set- tlers. Sir William Thompson, of England, was the owner of property about Boston, and his coat of arms has come down through many generations of James Thompson's descendants, but patient re- search has failed to establish the exact connection between the English and American houses. Edward Thompson came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620; John. his brother, came over from England in 1643; Archibald Thompson settled in Marblehead in 1637; Edward Thompson settled in Salem in 1637: Dr. Benjamin Thompson settled in Braintree and was town clerk in 1606, and left at his death eight chil- dren and twenty-eight grandchildren.
James Thompson came from England in Win- throp's Great Company, consisting of fifteen hundred people, in 1630. He was born in England, 1593. and
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died in Woburn, Massachusetts, 1682. He settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, removing to Wo- burn in 1642. He was among the first settlers of Woburn, and was the founder of one of the most numerous and best known families of Thompsons in America. It was this branch of Thompsons which gave to the world the famous Benjamin, afterwards Count Rumford, born in North Woburn, March 26, 1753, died at Paris, France, August 21, 1814. As a scientist, statesman and political economist, Count Runford was one of the most remarkable men this country has produced. Europe was the scene of his career, but America can claim the honor of his birth and early training. According to the best ob- tainable authority James was the grandfather of Benjamin, James and Robert Thmopson. In this sketch the line begins with Benjamin and Robert.
(I) Benjamin Thompson was born in 1712. He lived in Kingston, New Hampshire, and later moved to New Chester, now Hill. New Hampshire. His wife's maiden name is unknown. They had three children who lived to mature years: Hannah, born December 2, 1744, married Benjamin Noyes, of Bow. New Hampshire, August 18, 1763, and died No- vember 2, 1828; they had fourteen children. Mary, married her cousin, Benjamin Thompson, and had six children. William, married and settled in Deer- field, New Hampshire.
(II) Benjamin Thompson. son of Robert Thompson, was a soldier in the Revolution, served one year, was severely wounded and died on his way home. He married his cousin, Mary Thompson, as aforementioned. second child and younger daughter of Benjamin Thompson (1).
(III) Robert (2) Thompson, son of Benjamin and Mary ( Thompson) Thompson, was born Sep- tember 12. 1774. Married, April II, 1790, his cousin, Judith Noyes, of Bow, daughter of Benjamin (2) and Hannah ( Thompson ) Noyes. He died suddenly of colic, September 12, 1802, leaving two children: Robert, of whom later; and Mary, married J. H. Wilkins, of Pembroke, New Hampshire. and had fourteen children.
(IV) Robert (3) Thompson, only son and younger child of Robert (2) and Judith ( Noyes ) Thompson, was born April 24, 1803, at Bow, New Hampshire. His father died the same year and Robert lived with his Grandmother Noyes in Bow until the marriage of his sister to J. H. Wilkins, of Suncook, New Hampshire. In 1818 he became an inmate of his sister's home, served as clerk in Mr. Wilkins' store, and later a partner, this connection continuing until 1825. After serving a few months at Salisbury, New Hampshire, in the store of John White, Mr. Thompson came to Warner and engaged in business for himself at the "Old Kelley stand." so-called, the store being in a hotel building. After this was totally destroyed by fire in 1828, Mr. Thomp- son moved to what is now the principal village of Warner, where he spent most of his life and con- ducted a successful mercantile business for about sixty years. He was a paymaster in the New Hamp- shire militia, commissioned as such by Governor David Lawrence Morril, August 19, 1824. He was moderator of the town meeting eight years, select- man four years, representative three terms, and town clerk seven years. He was president of the board of trustees of the Simonds Free High School Fund from its beginning to his death, twenty-two years, was president, of the Pine Grove Cemetery Associa- tion twenty-six years, and justice of the peace for more than fifty years. Mr. Thompson was not a church member, but was a constant attendant and
supporter of the Congregational Church and society for seventy years.
Robert Thompson married (first) Sarah B. or Sally Lyman, daughter of Dr. Henry and Sarah C. ( Bartlett ) Lyman. of Warner, New Hampshire. Mrs. Sarah B. Thompson was born in 1808, and died December 25, 1833, without children. He married (second ) Susan Bartlett, daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Davis) Bartlett. of Warner, and first cousin of his first wife. Mrs. Susan ( Bartlett ) Thompson was born January 8, 1808, was married January 20, 1835, and died November 25, 1849. leav- ing five children : Sarah Lyman, born November 19, 1835: Rhoda Bartlett, born January 7, 1838; Mary Wilkins, born November 6, 1839, married Frank L. Martin, a wealthy farmer of Bradford. New Hamp- shire, May 31, 1866, and has had three children : Robert Henry, born August 18, 1842, deceased ; and Arthur, born June 24, 1844, now living in Warner, New Hampshire. Mr. Thompson married (third). 1851, Eunice T., daughter of Stephen George, of Salisbury, New Hampshire, with whom he lived thirty-six years until her decease in 1887. Robert Thompson died in Warner, April 15, 1892.
By his first two marriages Robert Thompson be- came connected with one of the old and prominent New England families, the Bartletts. \ brief gen- ealogy is here given :
(I) Richard Bartlett came to Newbury, Mass- achusetts, -in 1635; he died May 25. 1047. His brother John came over in the ship "Mary and John" in 1634, and was one of the first settlers of New- bury. Richard left four children, three sons and a daughter.
(II) Richard Bartlett, Jr., eldest child of Rich- ard Bartlett (I), was born in 1621. He married Abigail -, who died March 1. 1087. Richard. Jr .. lived at Bartlett's Corner, just above the chain bridge at Newburyport. He was four years repre- sentative to the Massachusetts legislature, and died in 1608, aged seventy-seven years. He had seven children, four sons and three daughters.
(III) Richard Bartlett, second of the seven children of Richard, Jr .. and Abigail Bartlett, was born February 21. 1649. He married Hannah Emery, of Newbury, Massachusetts, November 18. 1678. They had ten children, of whom the eldest and the youngest were daughters.
(IV) Stephen Bartlett, eighth of the ten chil- dren of Richard and Hannah ( Emery) Bartlett, was horn April 21, 1601. He married Hannah Webster, of Salisbury, whose father was "wealthy in landed property." He was a shoemaker and acquired money. He built a large house near Amesbury Ferry. Massachusetts, where he reared a family of six children, all sons but the youngest. Later in life he bought a farm in the northwest part of Ames- bury on which he built a house, leaving the farm near the ferry to his eldest son, Stephen Bartlett.
(\) Simeon Bartlett. third son and child of Stephen and Hannah ( Webster ) Bartlett, was born June 17, 1737. He inherited his father's farm, now occupied (1875) by the Amesbury, Massachusetts. almshouse. He was an ardent patriot like his brother, Dr. Josiah Bartlett, of Kingston, New Hampshire. afterwards president of the state. also governor, and the third signer of the Declaration of Independence. Simeon Bartlett was chairman of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety during the Revolution, and was one of the sixty-three ori- ginal proprietors of the township of Warner. New Hampshire. His second wife was Hannah Herbert, sister of Lieutenant Richard Herbert, of Concord.
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New Hampshire. They had nine children, four sons and five daughters.
(V1) Joseph Bartlett, one of the nine children of Simeon and Hannah (Herbert) Bartlett, was horn at Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1757, died Feb- ruary 5, 1829, aged seventy-two. In 1784 he went to Warner, New Hampshire, and began clearing the lot of land given him by his father. After disposing of his farm, he engaged in trade at Warner Lower Village for about thirty years, and among other pur- suits he manufactured potash. He was also a school teacher, town clerk, selectman, representative to the New Hampshire legislature and justice of the peace for nearly forty years. He married, December 28, 1790, Susannah Davis, born March 18, 1768, at Hop- kinten, New Hampshire, died October 26, 1826, aged fifty-eight years. They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Ile died in 1829, aged seventy- two years, and was buried near the site of the old First Church in Warner.
(VII) Susan B. Bartlett, youngest daughter and eighth child of Jeseph and Susannah ( Davis) Bart- lett, became the second wife of Robert Thompson, q. v.
(VI) Simeon Bartlett, brother of Joseph Bart- lett, and one of the nine children of Simeon and Hannah ( Herbert ) Bartlett, was a substantial farmer in Warner. His only child. Sarah C., married Dr. Henry Lyman. of Warner, and their only child, Sarah B. Lyman, became the first wife of Robert Thompson, q. v.
(V) Arthur Thompson, second son and young- est child of the five children of Robert and Susan B. ( Bartlett ) Thompson, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, June 24, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of Warner and at Pembroke Academy. He was graduated from Henniker Academy in May, 1862. He studied medicine with Drs. Gage and Hildreth at Concord, New Hampshire, for a few months, and then enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment. New Hampshire Infantry, and served three years. He was on detached service over two years as chief clerk in the quartermaster's department at the head- quarters of four different divisions of the Ninth Army Corps. He was under special detail by order of General U. S. Grant from October, 1864. until the close of the war. He was at headquarters of the «lefences of Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, and moved into Petersburg, Virginia, on the day of its capture. He was chief clerk of the quartermaster's depot there until June, 1865, when he returned home. He lacked fourteen days of twenty-one years of age at the end of his three years of service.
On May 12, 1808. he was commissioned by Presi- dent Mckinley as captain and assistant quarter- master of United States Volunteers. He was or- dlered by the secretary of war to report to Major- General John R. Brooke at Chickamauga. By Gen- eral Brooke he was assigned as chief quartermaster of the Second Division, First Army Corps. He served as such until July 16, when Colonel J. G. C. Lee, assistant quartermaster-general of United States army, assigned him to take charge of the great military depot at Chickamauga. He remained there until November 16, having in charge millions of dollars worth of government property. As dis- bursing officer he had check accounts with the as- sistant treasury at New York. Cincinnati and the United States depository at Chattanooga. Tennessee. Captain Thompson had on hand over ten thousand horses and mules at one time.
On November 16, 1808, Captain Thompson was ordered by the secretary of war to report to the quartermaster-general at Washington for duty in
the newly established transport service. lle was assigned to take charge of the Sherman, then being refitted at Philadelphia. After several weeks of service on the Sherman he was ordered to New York to take charge of the sister transport. the Sheridan. These two ships were the largest in the government service. On January 1, 1899, he was ordered by telegram from the secretary of war to take charge of the transport Hartford, afterwards the Terry, and to proceed at once to Havana, Cuba. He stayed there, making trips to various points on the island, until April, when he was ordered north. He was given two months, before his final dis- charge May 31, to settle accounts with the various government departments. These accounts involved money and property to the amount of several millions of dollars. Later he received certificates from the United States Treasury, the quartermaster-general, the commissary general. the signal department and the ordnance department that his accounts were all correct.
While in charge of the transport Terry, Captain Thompson entertained on that ship many distin- guished people, taking them to different places on the island. Among them were General A. R. Chaf- fee, wife and daughter; General Humphrey, now quartermaster-general of the United States army ; General Ernst, now of the Panama canal; General Breckenridge, then inspector general of the United States army. and many others. On a trip from Havana to Mariel, Captain Thompson had as guests the brother of President Mckinley, his wife and daughter, with a large party of distinguished civilians and officers.
Mr. Thompson was in mercantile business in Warner and Sycamore, Illinois; Booneboro and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. from 1865 to 1885. In 1881 he engaged in the business of fruit evaporating and later in the manufacture of evaporators. He continued in this business until 1800 and sold evaporators in many states. He operated plants in Warner, New Hampshire, Orange Court House. Virginia, Ker- nersville, North Carolina, and Fayetteville. Arkansas. In 1899, on returning from the army, Captain Thompson rebuilt a block built by him in 1883, and leased by him to the Patrons of Husbandry for sev- eral years as a hall, into a summer hotel called the Colonial Inn. It contains fifty rooms and has had continuously successful summer seasons with the owner as landlord.
In 1902 Captain Thompson was elected delegate to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention. He was chosen to offer the amendment to the Con- stitution, striking out the word "Male," that therehy men and women might have equal suffrage. The Convention voted to submit the proposed amend- inent to the people, but the time being not yet ripe, it failed at the polls. At the invitation of the Na- tional and State officers of the Suffrage Association, Captain Thompson spoke in favor of equal suffrage at Hillsboro. Meredith, Ashland, Rumney, Warren, HIaverhill. Whitefield and several other places : also by invitation he addressed the Massachusetts State Woman's Suffrage Association in the Park Street Church, Boston, in 1903. and the New Hampshire Woman's Suffrage Association at their annual meet- ing in Milford, New Hampshire, in 1904. At the dedication of the soldiers' monument in Warner, July 2, 1902, Captain Thompson was president of the day, making the opening address and introducing the many distinguished speakers, among whom were United States Senator Gallinger and former Sena- tor William E. Chandler. On this monument Cap- tain Thompson's name appears twice as a veteran of
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two wars. He has held various school offices, has been moderator several times in town meetings, supervisor, selectman and justice of the peace for twenty-five years. He attends the Congregational Church at Warner and is a member of the society of that church. He is a member of Harris Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Warner. and has been secretary of that lodge. He is a member of Robert Campbell Post, Grand Army of the Re- public.
Arthur Thompson married, October 14, 1867, at Sycamore, Illinois, Caroline Beckler, of Syracuse, New York. She was educated in the public and private schools of Syracuse. On the death of her mother, Mary (Knipp) Beckler, daughter of Fred- erick Knipp, of Syracuse. in 1866, she went to Syca- more, Illinois, to live with her uncle. Her father, John Beckler. born in Marburg, Hesse-Cassel, Ger- many, 1797, was a musician, and came to America in 1824. He lived in Syracuse, New York, until his death in 1877, aged eighty years. He served seven years in the army before coming to America. He was a son of John Beckler, and grandson of Dr. Frederick Beckler, a celebrated physician of Stras- burg, France.
The children of Arthur and Caroline ( Beckler ) Thompson are: Caroline E., born April II, 1870, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. was educated in the district schools and the Simonds free high school at Warner ; she married Frederick N. Shepard, of Boston. where they now live; he conducts a livery business. Robert, born August 21, 1873: at Warner, New Hampshire. was educated in the district schools and graduated from the Simonds free high school in 1800: he studied medicine and attended lectures at Dart- mouth College and at Baltimore, Maryland. He was graduated from the Baltimore Medical College in 1895, was registered as a physician in New Hamp- shire and has practiced in Walpole, Sutton and Warner.
(Second Family. ) THOMPSON The Thompson family is very nu- merous both in England and America, and this branch is ap- parently unconnected with any of those whose his- tory has been traced for this work. It has con- tributed to New Hampshire some of its best citizens. (I) John Thompson, born in the north of Wales in the year 1616, was but six years of age when he came with a company of immigrants to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The "good ship Ann." in which they sailed brought over the third embark- ation from England, and reached this country early in May, 1622. John Thompson learned the carpen- ter's trade, and tradition says that he built the first framed meeting-house at Plymouth, Massachu- setts. He afterwards lived in Sandwich, Massachu- setts, and was a farmer, then moved to that part of Plymouth which is now Halifax. He subsequently built a log house in Middleborough, where he lived till the Indians burned the house. At the time of these attacks he was commissioned lieutenant com- mander, and had general charge of the forts and garrisons. In 1677 he built a frame house near where the log cabin stood, and made a garrison of it. This house descended to the fifth generation of Thompsons, and was occupied till 1838, when it was pulled down. John Thompson and his wife were typical pilgrims. They rose at four in the morning, and it is said that on two Sabbaths in June Mrs. Thompson took her six-months-old baby in her arms and walked into Plymouth to church, a dis- tance of thirteen miles, returning the same day. John Thompson married Mary Cook, daughter of
Francis Cook, one of the immigrants of 1620. They had twelve children. John Thompson died June 16, 1696, at the age of nearly eighty, and was buried in the first burying ground of Middleborough. His wife died March 21, 1714, in her eighty-eighth year.
(II) Jacob was a son of John and Mary (Cook) Thompson. The line of descent has been preserved through this and the two succeeding generations, but no further information about the individuals is ob- tainable.
(III) Caleb was the son of Jacob Thompson.
(IV) Caleb (2) was the son of Caleb (1) Thompson.
(V) Caleb (3), the son of Caleb (2) Thomp- son. was born October 18, 1752. He was a ship- builder and lumber dealer at Plymouth, Massachu- setts. He served in the Revolution. At one time he had a farm at Braintree, Massachusetts. About 1806 he moved up the Connecticut river, and settled in the neighborhood of Windsor and Hartland, Ver- mont, where he owned a large farm, and later moved to Swanzey, New Hampshire. On November 27, 1775, Caleb (3) Thompson married Mary Perkins. They had fifteen children : Gaius, Sylvia, Jonah, Ansel. Nathan, Abigail, Serena, Alfred, Mary, Eliza, Caleb, Nathaniel, whose sketch follows; Joanna, Sabina and Frederick. Caleb (3) Thompson died February 9, 1821.
(VI) Nathaniel, seventh son and twelfth child of Caleb and Mary ( Perkins) Thompson, was born July 28. 1702. He was a farmer at Swanzey, New Hampshire, and also carried on a saw mill and dealt largely in lumber. He was a private in the War of 1812. On September 13, 1818, Nathaniel Thompson married Annie Field, of Wakefield. They had nine children. of whom the first six died in infancy or early life. They were: Ambrose. who died at the age of ten. Julia Ann, who lived one year. Julia Ann, who died at the age of twenty-seven. Fred- erick M., who died at twenty-three. Eliza. who died at nineteen. Andrew J., who lived six months. The three youngest of the family who lived to marry were: Mary E., born April 20, 1834, married Chandler Britton, of Westmoreland, New Hamp- shire. Albert, whose sketch follows. Lavina E .. born March 31. 1839. married Charles F. Graves, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Nathaniel Thompson died at Westmoreland, April 24, 1867, and his wife died January 21, 1866.
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