Father: John Thompson
Mother: Anne Vicars
Spouse: Rebeckah Bishop
m: 14/Nov/1695 - CT
Child-1: Samuel - b: 2/Dec/1696 - New Haven, New Haven
Co., CT
d: 17/Jan/1768 - Stanford Twp., Dutchess Co., NY
m: Esther or Elizabeth Alling - 20/Jan/1718(1719) - New Haven,
New Haven Co., CT
2: James
- b: 5/Jan/1698(1699) or 5/Jun/1699 - New Haven, New Haven
Co., CT
d: 2/Dec/1737 - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
m: Hannah or Harriet Wilmot - 30/May/1723 - New Haven, New Haven
Co., CT
3: Amos
- b: 3/May/1702 or 3/Mar/1701(1702) - New Haven, New Haven
Co., CT
d: 28/Sep/1795 - Amenia Twp., Dutchess Co., NY or Stamford,
Ulster Co., NY
m: Sarah Alling or Allen - 7/Sep/1726 - New Haven, New
Haven Co., CT
4: Gideon
5: Rebeckah
- b: 23/Feb/1707(1708) - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
d: 26/Feb/1738(1739) or 11/Aug/1738 - New Haven, New Haven Co.,
CT - bur: Grove St. Cem.
m: David Austin - 11/Feb/1729(1730) or 1730(1731) - New Haven,
CT
6: Judah
- b: 10/Jun/1711 - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
d: 1/Aug.1712 - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
7: Judah
- b: 5/Oct/1713 - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
m: Sarah or Mehitable Morris - 14/Feb/1759 - New Haven, New
Haven Co., CT
8: Enos
- b: 18/Aug/1717 - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
d: 23/Jun/1806 - Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., NY
m: Sarah Hitchcock - 2/Apr/1741 - New Haven, New Haven Co., CT
Biographical Details:
Samuel Thompson was born on May 12, 1669, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of John Thompson, the "Mariner". It is probable that his mother was Anne Vicars Thompson, but some authorities state that his mother's name was Hellena.1,2 Even so, it seems more likely that Hellena was the second wife of Captain John Thompson and therefore Samuel's stepmother; but this remains unproven. He married Rebeckah (or Rebecca) Bishop, daughter of Lieutenant Governor, James Bishop, on November 14, 1695, presumably in New Haven.3 They were the parents of eight known children. Of these children, two sons were apparently named Judah: the older who died infancy and the younger who appears to have survived into adulthood. Although, the practice of naming a younger child after an older deceased sibling would seem unusual or even macabre at the present day, in the early eighteenth century with its high rate of infant mortality, it was not unusual. Samuel Thompson was said to have been a highly esteemed merchant of New Haven and captain of militia. Indeed, he seems to have been an man of importance and known by the title of "Captain" during his lifetime.Source Notes and Citations:After the death of his wife in 1734, it does not appear that Samuel Thompson remarried. Moreover, he seems to have left New Haven and subsequently settled with his three sons, Samuel, Amos, and Gideon, at Goshen, Connecticut, where he died March 26, 1749.
1. Cuyler Reynolds (ed.), Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs - Vol. I, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1911: pgs. 94-100.
"(III) Samuel, son of Captain John and Hellena Thompson, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, May 12, 1669, died in Goshen, Connecticut, March 26, 1746. He was a highly-esteemed merchant of New Haven, but later in life removed to Goshen, where his sons Samuel and Amos had settled. He was successively sergeant, ensign, lieutenant and captain of militia. He seems to have been a man of importance. There is no record of the settlement of his estate nor of the time of his removal to Goshen. He married, November 14, 1695, Rebecca, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Bishop. Children:1. Samuel, born December 2, 1696. He settled on the east line of the town of Stanford, Dutchess county, New York, where he built a grist mill. He married Hester Alling; children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah and Esther.A distinguished descendant of Samuel Thompson was Smith Thompson, judge of the supreme court of the United States and secretary of the navy.
2. James, born June 5, 1699. He settled near his brother Samuel in Stanford. He was killed by a fall from a tree in 1737. He married Harriet Wilmot; children: Mary, James, Hezekiah, who was a lawyer of Woodbury, Connecticut, and whose son William was the first judge of Sullivan county, New York, and his son James an Episcopal clergyman of New Durham, Greene county, New York.
3. Amos, see forward.
4. Gideon, born December 25, 1704. He settled in Goshen, Connecticut, was deputy, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, while attending the fifth session of the assembly to which he was selected. He married Lydia Punderson; children: Elisha, Daniel, Stephen, Lydia, James, Chloe and Lois.
5. Rebecca, born February 23, 1708; married ---------- Austin, of New Haven.
6. Judah, born June 10, 1710, died August 5, 1712.
7. Judah, born August 5, 1713, lived and died in New Haven.
8. Enos, born August 18, 1717, lived in New Haven. He was the grandfather of Enos Thompson Throop, charge-de-affaires to Naples and governor of the state of New York. Married Sarah Hitchcock.(IV) Amos, third son of Samuel and Rebecca (Bishop) Thompson, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, March 3, 1702. He settled near the pond yet known as Thompson's Pond in 1746. February 3, 1737, he bid off one right in the town of Goshen, Connecticut. In 1741 he was chosen town clerk and treasurer and re-elected each year until 1750. The first meeting house built in Goshen was on his land. He married, September 7, 1726, Sarah Allen. Children:
1. Allen, born June 2, 1727;(V) Ezra, youngest son of Amos and Sarah (Allen) Thompson, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1734. He was one of the first supervisors of the town of Stanford, Dutchess county, New York, being elected in 1795. He was a gentleman farmer and had a large estate not far from the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. He married Rachel Smith. Children: Ezra, see forward; Smith, Egbert, Nathan, Tamna, Rachel, Betsey and Sally."
2. Rebecca, April 28, 1729;
3. Amos, August 7, 1731;
4. Ezra, see forward;
5. Mary, December 6, 1741.
(Schenectady Digital History Archive, www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/thompson-1.html, 2003.)
back to bio.2a. William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York - Vols. 1-3, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1912: Vol. 1, pgs. 296-7.
This account of the early Thompson family is identical to that given above by Reynolds and must have come from the same source.b. ibid.: Vol. 2, pgs. 575-6.
"He (John Thompson) had a son Samuel, who married, November 14, 1695, Rebecca, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Bishop. They lived at Beaver Ponds, now Westville, about two miles from New Haven. He was captain of the military in New Haven, and a healthy, active man when aged eighty-two years. He had eight children, all of whom lived to an advanced age except one who died in childhood. Some of them settled in Amenia, Dutchess county, New York, some in Goshen, and others in Derby, Connecticut. The sons of Samuel and Elizabeth Bishop were Samuel (2), James, Amos, Gideon, Judah (died young), Judah (2), and Enos. Their daughter was Rebecca. One of these sons was the father of Captain and Major Jabez Thompson, of further mention."
Since, Samuel Thompson was apparently only seventy-nine years old at the time of his death, his age as eighty-two stated here is apparently erroneous. (Keith Thompson, "Thompson ka.ged", www.gencircles.com/users/katman01/1/data/6992, 2003.)
back to bio.3. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England - Vols. 1-4, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, MA, 1860-1862: Vol. 4, pg. 288. (Reprint available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD, 21202-3897)
"SAMUEL, New Haven, m. 14 Nov. 1695, Rebecca, youngest d. of Hon. James Bishop."
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Additional Citations:
4. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven - Vols. 1-9, Printed by Clarence D. Smith, Rome, NY, 1923 & 1929; also appeared as "New Haven Genealogical Magazine", Vols. I-VIII, 1922-1932. (Reprint available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD, 21202-3897)5. Ancestral File: FHSV-7Q, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT, continuously updated.