William Thomson and Jane Mitchell
Husband William Thomson 1
AKA: Col. William Thompson 2 3 4 Born: 2 Jan 1752 or 1754 - Chester Co, PA 5 Christened: Died: 3 Jan 1813 - Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PA 6 Buried:
Father: John Thomson ( -1779) 7 Mother: [Unk] Greenlee ( - ) 8
Marriage: 3 Apr 1780 9
Wife Jane Mitchell 2 5 10
Born: Abt 1756 Christened: Died: 9 Feb 1813 11 Buried:
Father: [Father] Mitchell ( - ) Mother:
Children
1 M John "Goshen John" Thompson 11
Born: 28 Dec 1780 11 Christened: Died: 2 Oct 1855 11 Buried:Spouse: Abigail North (1783-1852) 11
2 M James Thompson 12
AKA: James Thomson 12 Born: 2 Feb 1782 - near Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PA 12 Christened: Died: 14 Dec 1847 - Mexico, Juniata Co, PA 12 Buried:Spouse: Martha Porter Allen (1788-1855) 12 Marr: 2 Apr 1810 12
3 F Sarah Thompson 13 14
Born: 1783 - Pfoutz Valley, Perry Co, PA 14 Christened: Died: 7 Mar 1862 14 15 Buried: - Lost Creek Cemetery, near McAlisterville, Juniata Co, PASpouse: Judge William McAlister (1774/1775-1847) 15 16 Marr: 2 Nov 1802 14
4 M William Thompson 17 18
Born: 15 Dec 1785 - Pfoutz Valley, Perry Co, PA 18 Christened: Died: 18 Mar 1834 - Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PA 18 Buried:Spouse: Charlotte Chambers Patterson (1794-1863) 17 19 Marr: 14 Jun 1816 - Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA 18
5 M Robert Thompson 20
Born: 1790 20 Christened: Died: 3 Jan 1866 - Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PA 20 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M Isaac Thompson 20
Born: 23 Jan 1790 20 Christened: Died: 3 May 1835 20 Buried:Spouse: Jane Boal (1801-1833) 20 Marr: 1 Dec 1825 21Spouse: Nancy Patterson ( - ) 20
7 F Jane Mitchell Thompson 20
Born: Christened: Died: 7 Feb 1847 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 20 Buried:Spouse: Henry Walters (1795-1854) 20
8 M Samuel Thompson 22 23 24
Born: 1792 - Juniata Co, PA 24 Christened: Died: 7 Mar 1851 - Pottsville, Schuylkill Co, PA 24 Buried:Spouse: Ann West Alricks (1798-1828) 22 23 25 Marr: 6 Nov 1827 - Newton Hamilton, Mifflin Co, PA 25Spouse: Elizabeth Cunningham (1805-1874) 25 Marr: 6 Aug 1833 25
9 F Elizabeth Thompson 26
Born: 1795 - Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PA 26 Christened: Died: 11 Feb 1866 26 Buried: - Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PASpouse: Dr. William Waterhouse (1794-1822) 26 Marr: 14 Dec 1820 - Thompsontown, Juniata Co, PA 26
General Notes: Husband - William Thomson
He served in the Revolutionary War.
The village of Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, was laid out by him in 1790 upon land purchased in 1785 from Michael Quiggle. Upon taking possession of the property he built thereon a store, a grist-mill, and a saw-mill. Near the grist-mill he erected later a stone dwelling house, still in the possession of his descendants in the early twentieth century. The corner stone of this house bore the inscription "This House Built by W. and J. Thomson, 1798." William Thomson owned a farm near what became the village of Mexico in Walker Township, Juniata County. He built at Mexico, a stone flour mill on which there were two tablets containing the following inscriptions, "New Mexico Mill, Built by William Thomson, 1810" and "Virtue, Liberty and Independence Be Thine. Success to Farmers and Mechanics."
The farm near Mexico was inherited by his son Samuel. His son John inherited a tract of land opposite Van Dyke Station, patented as the "Happy Banks of Goshen" on account of its fertility, which was purchased from the heirs of Joseph Poultrey in 1804. William Thomson's son, Isaac, was given a farm in Lost Creek Valley, "adjoining the Hugh McAlister property called Hugh's Fancy."
According to Dr. William H. Eagle [sic], editor of the Pennsylvania Archives, our William Thompson was chosen on July 12, 1774 a member of the committee
on Observation, Cumberland County\emdash see Penn. Archives, Second Series,
Vol. XIV, p. 371\emdash he was appointed second lieutenant of a company of
foot, second division, Fourth Battalion of Associators of Cumberland
County, on May 3, 1775, and was made captain of a company in the
Fifth Battalion of Cumberland County Associators in July, 1776, in
service in the New Jersey Campaign of that year.\emdash See Penn. Archives,
Second Series, Vol. XIV, p. 372.
About the close of the Revolutionary War, on May 1, 1783, the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gave him a commission as lieutenant of a company of foot in the Seventh Battalion of Militia of County of Cumberland, and, on July 11, 1792, Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania, gave him a commission as captain of the Fifth Company of Foot, in the Lost Creek Battalion of Militia, County of Mifflin.
He and his wife both died from camp fever (typhoid-pneumonia) which they both contracted from their soldier sons, William and Isaac, who recovered. They are buried in the Thompson family graveyard one and one-half miles east of Thompsontown.
General Notes: Wife - Jane Mitchell
According to Hugh Nelson McAllister, son of Sarah (Thompson) McAllister and grandson of Jane (Mitchell) Thompson. Jane Mitchell "was born within one mile of Strasburg, now Franklin (then Cumberland) County. Her father was killed by the Indians in a harvest field during the French and Indian War (1754-60) near what is now called St. Thomas, seven miles west of Chambersburg." Letterkenny is a township of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, of which Strasburg is the chief post office. The township extends from say 2 to 15 miles north of Chambersburg and from say 5 to 25 miles west of Shippensburg. Among the earliest of land titles in this township was that of James Mitchell, dated July 10, 1752. On May 9, 1754, Joseph Mitchell and William Mitchell were referred to as "neighbors" of John Maughan in that township. On p. 169 of the "History of Franklin County, Pa." . . . it is stated that "William Mitchell, living in Conococheaque was shot and killed by a band of Indians while at work in the harvest field." On p. 59 of the "History of Cumberland County, Pa." (published in 1886 by Warner Beers & Co., Chicago) appears an account of an Indian raid during which four people were captured and ten people killed in a harvest field near Shippensburg on July 19, 1757. Among the killed were Joseph, James, and William Mitchell. According to Robert Thompson, son of Jane (Mitchell) Thompson, his father William Thompson "married Jane Mitchell, a daughter of James Mitchell in Cumberland Valley near Chambersburg."
1 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 14, 82.
2 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 875.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1200, 1267.
4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 447.
5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1200.
6 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 82.
7 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 14.
8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1199.
9 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 26.
10 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 83.
11 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 84.
12 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 90.
13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 17.
14 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 106.
15 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 834.
16 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 14, 106.
17 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 853.
18 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 95.
19 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 95, 167.
20 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 140.
21 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 218.
22 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 462.
23 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 31.
24 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 147.
25 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 148.
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Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 144.
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