Family Genealogy Home Page / Scans of Individual Documents / Contact Information

Genealogy of the
Thompson Family

February 1877


Information About This Document

Text of the Document


Click image below for high-resolution version; click Document for medium-resolution version

Document




Information About This Document

A copy of this genealogy was sent to me by my fourth cousin, Merritt Miller.

I found a point of commonality between the tree and my own family tree, a person near the lower right corner with the identification "Austin Baldwin, b. Nov. 10, 1872. Night of the great fire in Boston." On my tree this is Austin Baldwin Caswell.

The genealogy indicates a date of February 1877, and that is supported by the fact that a handwritten entry for "Esther Lois" has a birth date of "Nov. 2, 1877". (This entry is just to the right of the Austin Baldwin Caswell mentioned previously.)

If you have additional information or corrections regarding this document, please contact me (see Contact Information at the top of this page).


Text of the Document

Links open the Web Family Card.
Hand-written items are underscored; added notes are {italicized-bracketed}.
The sign of marriage (=) has been replaced by the ampersand (&).

GENEALOGY OF THE THOMPSON FAMILY

"There were Anciently four men who settled in New Haven, about 1638, of the name of THOMPSON, of whom three were brothers, viz.: Anthony, John, William,—the fourth was John, who settled at Stony River, in the east part of East Haven; he was called "Farmer John" in distinction from John at New Haven, who was a seaman. William and John, it is said, died leaving no children."
  • Anthony {Thompson}, "The Emigrant," as he is called left a son,
    • John {Thompson}. called "Serjeant Joseph," in the record of his death, Dec. 10, 1711. & Elizabeth Smith, Feb'y 2, 1697. {I assume that John and "Serjeant Joseph" are the same person, although the chart line between them could mean that "Serjeant Joseph" was the son of John.}
      • Anna {Thompson}, b. Feb'y 17, 1697.
      • Joseph {Thompson}, b. March 5, 1703.
      • Steven {Thompson}, b. Dec 3, 1705.
      • Jonathan {Thompson}, b. April 3, 1709.
      • Rev'd Ebenezer {Thompson}, b. June 21, 1712. d. Nov. 20, 1775. & Esther Stevens {for her ancestors see Esther Stevens below}
        • Esther {Thompson}, d. Nov. 15, 1764, aged 23.
        • Ebenezer {Thompson}, b. in New Haven, Jan'y 15, 1735. Removed to Providence, R. I., 1754. d. Dec 10, 1805. & Lydia Kinnicutt {for ancestry see Lydia Kinnicutt below}. Children by 1st marriage.
          • Sarah {Thompson}, b. June 7, 1760. d. Oct 3, 1795.
          • Edward Kinnicutt {Thompson}, b. April 8, 1762. d. March 8, 1825. & Sarah Kuhn Swoope, of Alexandria, Va., Jan'y 11, 1789. b. March 12, 1770 - d. Feb. 22, 1847. Daughter of Col. Michael Swoope, by his 3d wife, Eve Kuhn.
            • Mary Anne {Thompson}, b. Nov. 20, 1789. d. Aug. 11, 1872.
            • Elizabeth Kinnicutt {Thompson}, b. Oct 14, 1791. d. Sept 10, 1819. & Sam'l Nightingale.
              • Crawford {Nightingale}, b. Nov. 3, 1816. & Mary Hoyt Williams, May 13, 1846.
                • Mary Williams {Nightingale}, b. Jan. 26, 1847. & John Goddard Phillips, Oct. 8, 1874.
                  • Mary Nightingale {Phillips}, b. Oct 17, 1875.
                • Samuel Crawford {Nightingale}, b. April 11, 1852.
              • Lydia Kinnicutt {Nightingale}, b. Jan 28, 1818. d. May 27, 1822.
              • Sarah Thompson {Nightingale}, b. July 10, 1819. d. Sept 26, 1819.
            • Sarah Swoope {Thompson}, b. Mar. 3, 1794, d. Feb. 6, 1868. & John Barstow, Nov. 11, 1828. b. Feb. 11, 1791, d. Mar. 31, 1864.
              • Lydia Kinnicutt {Barstow}, b. April 6, 1830.
              • Elizabeth Thompson {Barstow}, b. Sept. 11, 1831.
              • Hannah {Barstow}, b. June 21, 1834. d. April 13, 1839.
            • Edward Kinnicutt {Thompson}, b. Jan. 25, 1797, d. Aug. 13, 1814.
            • Esther Lois {Thompson}, b. Sept. 1, 1802. d. June 25, 1850. & Alexis Caswell, May 17, 1830. b. Jan 29, 1799. d. Jan 8, 1877.
              • Sarah Swoope {Caswell}, b. July 24, 1831. & Jas. B. Angell, Nov. 26, 1855.
                • James Rowland {Angell}, b. May 8, 1869.
                • Lois Thompson {Angell}, b. Feb. 15, 1863.
                • Alexis Caswell {Angell}, b. April 26, 1857.
              • Mary Thompson {Caswell}, b. July 31, 1832. d. Oct. 8, 1832.
              • Edward Thompson {Caswell}, b. Sept. 11, 1833. & Annie Baldwin, June 7, 1865.
                • Julia Baldwin {Caswell}, b. Sept. 7, 1866.
                • Alexis Caswell, b. March 29, 1868.
                • Edward Thompson {Caswell}, b. Sept. 24, 1869.
                • Annie Baldwin {Caswell}, b. Feb. 22, 1871.
                • Austin Baldwin {Caswell}, b. Nov. 10, 1872. Night of the great fire in Boston.
                • Esther Lois {Caswell}, b. Nov. 2, 1877
              • Alexis Caswell, b. August 11, 1835. d. Oct. 13, 1837.
              • Joseph Thompson {Caswell}, b. Feb 17, 1838. d. Aug. 7, 1838.
              • Thomas Thompson {Caswell}. b. Jan 4, 1840. & Gertrude Eliza Ford, Sept. 24, 1867.
                • Rosalie {Caswell}, b. Sept. 11, 1869.
                • Gertrude Ford {Caswell}, b. Feb. 3, 1878{?}
          • Mary {Thompson}, b. March 4, 1764. d. Sept. 1, 1787.
          Ebenezer {Thompson} & Eliz'th Kinnicutt, 2d wife {for ancestry see Eliz'th Kinnicutt below}. Children by 2d marriage.
          • Stephen {Thompson}, b. Mar. 14, 1784. d. Mar. 17, 1784.
          • Lydia {Thompson}, b. Mar. 6, 1780. d. Mar. 10, 1848.
          • Joseph {Thompson}, b. May 16, 1778. d. Jan. 18, 1802.
          • Thomas {Thompson}, b. April 18, 1776. d. June 19, 1838.
          • John {Thompson}, b. Oct. 30, 1774. d. Feb. 24, 1805. & Sally Waterman, Ap. 1, 1798. b. Feb. 21, 1775. d. Jan. 30, 1852.
            • Hannah {Thompson}, b. Jan 1, 1803. d. Dec 4, 1837. & Edw'd Carlisle, Apr. 25, 1827. b. July 19, 1802. d. July 11, 1838.
              • John Thompson {Carlisle}, b. Aug. 1, 1828, d. April 8, 1829.
              • Sarah Thompson {Carlisle}, b. March 6, 1830. d. July 27, 1881. & Wm. H. Watson, May 1, 1854. b. Nov. 8, 1829.
                • Lucy Carlisle {Watson}, b. Feb. 10, 1855.
                • William Livingston {Watson}, b. March 27, 1856.
              • Elizabeth Waterman {Carlisle}, b. Dec. 19, 1831. d. March 22, 1833.
              • Elizabeth Waterman {Carlisle}, 2d, b. Aug. 8, 1834. & Chas. F. Choate, Nov. 7, 1855. b. May 16, 1828.
                • Edward Carlisle {Choate}, b. March 9., 1857.
                • Sarah Carlisle {Choate}, b. May 5, 1858.
                • Infant Son {Choate}, b. Jan 16, 1860. d. Jan 19, 1860.
                • Margaret Manning {Choate}, b. Nov. 18, 1861.
                • Helen Thompson {Choate}, b. May 8, 1863.
                • Charles Francis {Choate}, b. Oct 23, 1866.
            • Rufus {Thompson}, b. August 4, 1801. d. June 18, 1802.
            • Eliza {Thompson}, b. May 13, 1799. d. July 27, 1855. & Freeman Foster, Sept. 19, 1828. b. July 14, 1800. d. Dec 7, 1855.
              • Rufus Waterman {Foster}, b. Oct. 24, 1834. d. Jan'y 24, 1838.
          • Ebenezer {Thompson}, b. March 8, 1773. d. March 25, 1837. & Ruth Stockbridge, Jan'y 19, 1806.
            • Thomas {Thompson}, b. Dec. 26, 1815. d. June, 1867. & Anna T. Dorrance, June 22, 1842.
              • Edward Kinnicutt {Thompson}, b. April 3, 1843.
              • Eleanor Vinton {Thompson}, b. March 16, 1844.
              • James R. Dorrance {Thompson}, b. Dec. 8, 1846.
              • Lilly Anne {Thompson}, b. Apr. 3, 1848. d. Oct 19, 1857.
              • Arthur Middleton {Thompson}, b. Jan. 16, 1858.
              • Leila Lydia {Thompson}, b. Feb 3, 1861.
            • Charles {Thompson}, b. June 2, 1812. & Clara Grovesnor, August 7, 1844.
              • Ebenezer {Thompson}, b. Nov. 26, 1846.
              • Charles Otis {Thompson}, b. June 19, 1849.
            • Ebenezer {Thompson}, b. May, 1810. d. Dec. 30, 1842.
            • Anna {Thompson}, b. Feb., 1809. d. March 27, 1850. & Rev'd Ezra B. Kellogg, May 4, 1835.
              • George Herbert {Kellogg}, b. June 10, 1847. & Fay Chase, July 29, 1873.
                • Grace Wells {Kellogg}, b. Oct 30, 1875.
              • Frances Augusta {Kellogg}, b. Dec. 30, 1844. & Rev. Ed'd B. Church, Aug. 12, 1869.
                • Arthur {Church}, b. July, 1870. d. " "
              • Eleanor {Kellogg}, b. Dec 31, 1842. & Rev. Wyllys Hall, May 24, 1866.
                • Lois {Hall}, b. Mar. 9, 1867.
                • Edna {Hall}, b. Feb 9, 1869.
                • Gordon {Hall}, b. Dec. 18, 1870.
                • Eleanor {Hall}, b. Nov. 24, 1873.
                • Miriam {Hall}, b. Nov. 1, 1876.
              • Theodore Harvey {Kellogg}, b. May 23, 1841.
              • Anna Georgia {Kellogg}, b. Dec. 20, 1838. & Edw'd J. Gould, Oct. 5, 1864.
                • Theodore H. {Gould}, b. Aug. 17, 1865.
                • Florence {Gould}, b. Mar. 12, 1868.
                • Anna Thompson {Gould}, b. May 7, 1870.
                • Edward J. {Gould}, b. May 8, 1872.
              • Arthur {Kellogg}, b. Sept. 2, 1836. d. Dec. 15, 1842.
            • Eleanor Stockbridge {Thompson}, b. Dec. 25, 1806. d. Oct. 21, 1877 & Alexander H. Vinton, Oct. 14, 1835. d. April 26, 1881.
              • Frederic Swartz {Vinton}, b. Nov. 29, 1836. d. Aug. 8, 1843.
              • Eleanor {Vinton}, b. Aug. 20, 1838.
              • Mary {Vinton}, b. Oct 14, 1840. & Randolph M. Clark, May 17, 1864.
                • Eleanor Vinton {Clark}, b. March 30, 1867.
                • Ethel Randolph {Clark}, b. June 6, 1870.
              • Anna {Vinton}, b. April 12, 1843. d. Sept. 30, 1843.
              • Alexander {Vinton}, b. Sept. 17, 1844. d.
              • Emily {Vinton}, b. Marcy 18, 1849. d. Oct 30, 1849.
        • John {Thompson}, d. at Bilboa, Spain.
        • Amey {Thompson} d. May 16, 1813. & Benjamin Palmer.
          • Esther {Palmer}, d. Sept. 17, 1836, aged 59. & Dr. Freeman Foster, Nov. 4, 1799. b. June 8, 1777. d. July 1863.
            • Freeman {Foster}, b. July 14, 1800. d. Dec. 7, 1855. & Eliza Thompson {for decendant and ancestors see Eliza Thompson above}.
            • Benjamin Palmer {Foster}, b. Feb 12, 1802. d. Oct. 21, 1827, at New Orleans.
            • Joseph Thompson {Foster}, b. April 17, 1804. d. Oct. 22, 1869. & Betsey Buell, July 12, 1837.
              • Joseph Thompson {Foster}, b. June 26, 1839. & Alice Sleeper. Jan. 28, 1866.
                • Arthur Joseph {Foster}, b. July 5, 1867.
                • Agnes {Foster}, b. Dec. 9, 1872. d. Feb. 16, 1873.
            • Temperance Freeman {Foster}, b. July 10, 1806.
            • Esther Stephens {Foster}, b. Jan. 22, 1813. d. Jan. 18, 1842. & Isaac Haskins,
              • Lemuel P. Haskins, b. March 20, 1840. d. Oct. 15, 1840.
        • Anna or Nancy {Thompson}, d. May 2, 1816, aged 72.
        • Lucy {Thompson}, d. Dec. 13, 1819, aged 72.
        • Lois {Thompson}, d. Nov. 14, 1826, aged 76.
        • Mary {Thompson}, d. July 9, 1833. aged 91. & Lemuel Ransom
        • Jane {Thompson}, d. July 30, 18221. aged 64. & Rev'd W. W. Wheeler.

  • Sarah —— & Hezekiah Luther, who with his brother Samuel was one of the first purchasers and settlers of Swansea, Mass., in 1667.
    • Elizabeth {Luther} b. Dec. 29, 1671. & John Kinnicutt. The record of his marriage with the dates of birth of children are copied from old records of the Town of Swansea, Mass.
      • John {Kinnicutt}, b. June 23, 1700. & Anne Eddy.
      • Elizabeth {Kinnicutt}, b. March 10, 1702. & Nathaniel Scowls.
      • Hannah {Kinnicutt}, b. Jan'y 15, 1704.
      • Daniel {Kinnicutt}, b. June 18, 1706.
      • Roger {Kinnicutt}, b. Nov. 10, 1708. d. Aug 6, 1751 see H C. Doers{?} ??? ??? of ??? p. 118.
      • Thomas {Kinnicutt}, b. March 16, 1711. d. Jan. 1, 1767.
      • Hezekiah {Kinnicutt}, b. June 9, 1713.
      • Col. Edward Kinnicutt, b. Dec 12, 1715. d. in London, June 25, 1754. & Mary Tillinghast, Oct. 26, 1739, b. May 25, 1705. d. January 17, 1790. {see Mary Tillinghast below for ancestry}

  • Pardon Tillinghast was born near Seven Cliffs, Beachy Head, England, in the year 1622. He emigrated to Connecticut and thence to Providence, in 1645. He was a minister and elder of the First Baptist Church, in Providence. By the family tradition he had been a soldier in Cromwell's army. In 1711 he gave a Deed to the church of the meeting-house and lot. He died January 29, 1717. & Lydia Tabor.
    • Benjamin {Tillinghast}. 4th son of Pardon Tillinghast. & —— Carder.

  • Jesse or Thomas Stevens.
    In a letter written Nov. 24, 1848, by Mrs. Tallmadge, great, great, great grand-daughter of the above, to Mrs. Esther Lois Caswell, she says—"The little village of West Haven was first settled by a Lamberton and Stevens. The latter built a house in front on the harbor, between Ezra Smith's and John Thompson's. He had five sons—living to an advanced age—joining the church when he was an hundred years old."
    • Deacon Thomas Stevens, lived to be an 100 years old and "Turned to the Episcopacy." & Amme Smith, d. Dec. 23, 1788, in the 102d year of her age. The date of her death is taken from a letter written by Jesse Stevens, December 28, 1788, to his aunt, Mrs. Esther Stevens Thompson.
    • James {Stevens}
    • Samuel {Stevens}
    • Joseph {Stevens}
    • John {Stevens}