THE REVEREND WILLIAM THOMPSON

(d. 1623) - Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, England

(First Generation - Thompson Family)

FATHER	MOTHER
NOT KNOWN	NOT KNOWN

DEATH	William died in 1623.
OCCUPATION	He was the Vicar of Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, England from 1603 until his death in 1623^[1].
ESTATE	Most of what is known of this family comes from William's nuncupative will, dated 10 July 1623. In it, "...'William Thompson, clerk' named, among others, wife Elizabeth, sons William and Samuel, and 'each of his five daughters,' and appointed John Cogswell as one of his executors...^[2,3]"
MARRIAGE #1	William first married Phillis [surname not known]. She died in 1608 and was buried on 19 July 1608 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England^[1]. Her burial record reads: "Phillis, uxor of Mr. William Thompson, Vicar, Sepult. 19 Jyly, 1608" [sic].

CHILDREN	2.	i.	Elizabeth THOMPSON	Please see her own page.
	3.	ii.	Maria THOMPSON	Maria was baptized in 1604^[1].
	4.	iii.	[not known daughter] THOMPSON	Nothing more is known of her. She is one of the "five daughters" mentioned in William Thompson's will.
	5.	iv.	[not known daughter] THOMPSON	Nothing more is known of her. She is one of the "five daughters" mentioned in William Thompson's will.
	6.	v.	[not known daughter] THOMPSON	Nothing more is known of her. She is one of the "five daughters" mentioned in William Thompson's will.

MARRIAGE #2 William second married Elizabeth [surname not known]^[1].

CHILDREN 7. i. William THOMPSON William, Jr. was baptized in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England on 23 April 1615^[1].

8. ii. Samuel THOMPSON The Reverend Doctor Samuel THOMPSON^[1] was born in 1616 and was baptized in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England on 30 November of that year^[1]. His baptismal record reads: "1616, Samuell, filius Willmi. Thompsonn, Vicarie de Westburie, baptizat Novemb. 30". Samuell grew up to become The Reverend Samuel Thompson, D.D., of London, Middlesex, England^[1]. He married and had one child named William.

GENERATION

Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G10) Grandfather

FAMILY NUMBER

7506

SOURCES

1. Jameson, Ephriam Orcutt, The Cogswells in America: 1635-1884, ([Boston: A. Mudge & Son], 1884), [Cogswell], xv.

2. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F. Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635., (New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig1634-1635], II:138.

3. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England, [PCC], 26 Byrde.

4. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

5. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [IVR], 2:528 (CT. R.).

6. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 37:117; 40:65; 52:213.

7. [Cogswell], xiii, xv, 1.

8. Hill, Wilham G., Family Record of Deacon James W. Converse and Elisha S. Converse, ([Boston: A. Mudge & Son], 1887), [Converse (1887)], 53.

9. Fuess, Elizabeth Goodhue, Cushing and Allied Families, (Andover, Mass., 1931), typescript, [Cushing (Ms)], 119, 428.

10. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, a Memorial Volume, 2 vols., (Milwaukee: privately printed, 1931-43), [Dawes-Gates], 1:187+.

11. Stearns, Ezra S., Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable: Thirty Families, (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1911), [Dunstable Fam. ], 90.

12. Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine and Ninety Allied Families, (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1959), [Farr Anc.], 69.

13.Davis, Fellowes Genealogical Statistics and Notes, (n.p., 1915), [Fellowes-Davis Anc.], 89.

14. Leonard, Clarence Ettienne, The Fulton-Hayden-Warner Ancestry in America, (New York: T. A. Wright, 1923), [Fulton Anc.], 188.

15. Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family and Allied Families, (Hartford, Conn.: E. F. Waterman, 1945), [Granberry], 199.

16. Lord, A. Roberts, Holbrook and Allied Families, (New York: Thesis Publ. Co., 1942), [Holbrook Anc. (1942)], 41.

17. Ipswich Antiquarian papers, v. 1-4, (Ipswich, Mass.: 1879-85), [Ipswich Ant. Papers], 192.

18. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:422

19. Underhill, Lora Altine, Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the Allied Families, (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1910), [Small], 2:558.

20. The American Genealogist, [TAG], 21:168.

21. Tracy, Sherman Weld, The Tracy Genealogy; Being Some of the Descendants of Stephen Tracy of Plymouth Colony, 1623; Also, Ancestral Sketches and Chart, (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., 1936), [Tracy (1936)], 167.

22. Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven in 1639. Also, Some Account of the Descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass., (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Company, 1883), [Tuttle], xxvii.

23. Wellman, Joshua Wyman, et. al., Descendants of Thomas Wellman of Lynn, Mass., (Boston: Arthur Holbrook Wellman, 1918), [Wellman], 79.

24. Whittelsey, Charles Barney, Genealogy of the Whittelsey-Whittlesey Family, (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1898), [Whittlesey], 75.

25. Wentworth, John, The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, 3 vols., (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1878), [Wentworth], 2:92.

26. [Cogswell], viii, xiii, xv.

27. [GreatMig1634-1635], II:137.

28. [Cogswell], 6.

29. Ibid. 2.

30. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 1:79.

31. Ibid. 1:87.

32. Ibid. 1:109.

33. Ibid. 1:127.

34. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686; 5 volumes in 6, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed. (Boston: 1853-1854), [MCBR], 1:371.

[IQCR], 5:108.

36. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], 2:180.

37. [Cogswell], 7.

38. [EssexProb or EPR].

39. Ibid. Docket 5, 830.

40. [IQCR], 5:116.

41. [GreatMig1634-1635], II:137-8.

42. [IQCR], 5:109.

43. [Cogswell], xvi-xxi.

44. Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, Alexander Young, (Boston&358; 1844; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [YoungsFirstPlanters], 478.

45. [Cogswell], 11-12.

46. Great Migration Newsletter, vol 1+, [GMN], 7:17-18,24.

47. [Cogswell], xvi.

48. Ibid. 3.

49. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Town Records, [ITR].

50. [Cogswell], 3-4.

51. Ibid. 4.

52. Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, MA, [ILR], 1:93.

53. Ibid. 1:116.

54. Ibid. 2:237.

55. [EQC], 1:175.

56. [Cogswell], 4-5.


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CHILDREN	7.	i.	William THOMPSON	William, Jr. was baptized in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England on 23 April 1615^[1].
	8.	ii.	Samuel THOMPSON	The Reverend Doctor Samuel THOMPSON^[1] was born in 1616 and was baptized in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England on 30 November of that year^[1]. His baptismal record reads: "1616, Samuell, filius Willmi. Thompsonn, Vicarie de Westburie, baptizat Novemb. 30". Samuell grew up to become The Reverend Samuel Thompson, D.D., of London, Middlesex, England^[1]. He married and had one child named William.