Person:Thomas Thompson (132)

Family Records or genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley and Vicinity above Chatham, with their ancestors and descendants, as far as could be ascertained in 1851, pg 415:
THOMAS THOMPSON, (son of John) lived in Union Township, near Rahway River, and owned the mills below Springfield. He and Hannah Rushmore had children:
1. Mary, who married 1st John Lamb; 2nd Matthias Hetfield, by whom she had no children.
2. Lavina, born 6th July, 1731 and died young.
3. John married Lucy Woolcott, of Connecticut.
4. Abigail, who died in infancy.
5. Abigail 2d married 1st Moses Littell, (son of Benjamin); 2nd John Seabring.
6. Hezekiah married 1st Jane Ross; 2d Jane Woodruff.
7. Abner married Mary Ross, and died July, 1815.
8. Phebe, born April, 1748, and died 29th October, 1836. She married first, John Littell, son of Benjamin; 2d, Benjamin Frazee, a grandson of Benjamin Littell.
9. Sarah, born 9th Nov 1750, and died 28th Jan 1812; she married 1783 James Ross, Esq. son of John, as his 2d wife.
10. Hannah born 23d Nov 1753, and died 27th Feb 1778. She married James Ross, Esq., son of John, as his 1st wife.
11. Carman married Patience Headley.

Thomas Thompson, by his 2d wife Rachel, had:
12. Aaron, born 19th Dec. 1760, and died 3d July, 1792.
13. Rachel, born 31st Jan 1763, married 1st Noah Marsh; 2d John Potter, and removed to Redstone.
14. Chloe, who married Ephraim Price, of Elizabethtown.
15. Hur, born 9th July, 1767; died at about 18 or 19 years

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Littell, John. Family records, or, Genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley (and vicinity) above Chatham: with their ancestors and descendants as far as can now be ascertained. (Feltville, N.J.: Stationers' Hall Press :  D. Felt, 1851)
   pgs 414, 415.

   pg 414:
   "It may reasonably be inferred then that Hur Thompson was the father of John Thompson, who was probably the father of Thomas Thompson, who was born 25th Jan 1712, and died 2 Nov 1803, 91 years, 9 months and 8 days." [Note: this death date differs from what is visible on the crumbling gravestone. Presumably the birth date was calculated from this death date and the age at death, since that yields 25 Jan 17[11/]12, but if 3 Oct 1803 is used as the death date, one gets 25 Dec 1711.]
   John Thompson, (son of Hur Thompson) had seven children. He lived a short distance east of the residence of the late General William Crane, about two miles west of Elizabethtown. [First son was:]
   1. Thomas who married 1st Hannah Rushmore, of Hempstead, Long Island; 2nd Rachel Shotwell, widow of Benjamin, of Piscataway.
   pg 415:
   THOMAS THOMPSON, (son of John) lived in Union Township, near Rahway River, and owned the mills below Springfield.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Find A Grave: Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Union, NJ, in Find A Grave
   Thomas Thompson.

   [Note; the gravestone is crumbling and largely unreadable. What can be seen [d. 3 Oct'r 180? aged ??] is consistent with the information on the memorial page, to wit, d. 3 Oct 1803, age 90.]