WILLIAM THOMPSON DESCENDANTS
Last Updated on June 10, 2011
ELISHA THOMPSON FAMILY PICTURES BELOW:
Click here to download book about the Brocks of McMinn County, Tn. called "A Legacy In The Land."
Click here to got to McMinn County, Tn. Walker Family research page
The book, "The Covenanter's Quest" has been written to document the migration of Scotsman William Thomson to America from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Click here to download book about the William Thompson descendants called "The Covenanter's Quest"
Click here to download an 8.5 megabyte mp3 ballad about William Thompson and the religiously persecuted Scotts, also called "The Covenanter's Quest"
Click here for an Appendix file showing DNA test results from descendant Ron Thompson
GED file for William Thomson and descendants--This contains ALL known descendant lines.
Note: The above file requires a user name and password available only by user name and password supplied by the following procedure.
Click here to submit a request for the needed information.
Many of the Montgomery County, Maryland famlies migrated to Rowan/Davie County, N. C. At this location families from Virginia also converged and inter-married. A
DNA analysis has proven the relationship of many of these families. One family of interest was that of Samuel Estep and Susannah Adams. Estep researchers show that two of
the Samuel and Susannah Adams Estep children were Henry Estep and Jacob Estep. Because of location and other details, Thompson researchers thought that Samuel Estep was the
father of Henry Estep whose descendants intermarried with the Thompson family. Direct paternal line descendant Lee Henry Estep was located and agreed to take the DNA test. Thanks to his
results there is absolutely conclusive proof to show that both Lee Henry Estep and cousin James Ronald Thompson are cousins to the Caudill family and the Adams family as well. There is absolutely no
doubt that Susannah Adams who married Samuel Estep was the daughter of John Adams, a nearby neighbor to Samuel Estep. There are family finder matches to about 12 direct line
descendants from John and Ann Caudill Adams which prove that. Also, it is noted that many researchers do not include Ann Caudill as the daughter of Stephen and Mary Elizabeth Fields Caudill.
But they do list a Mary Caudill of the correct age without known husband. There is at least one cousin match whose ancestor John Adams Sr.'s spouse is listed as Mary Ann Caudill. There is plenty of evidence to
prove that the Henry Estep descendants are cousins to the Caudill family. That fact supports the opinion that this Mary Caudill was the same as the spouse of John Adams Sr. ALSO the 1787 census of
Wilkes County, N. C. shows Stephen Caudill, John Adams Sr., and a multitude of their sons living as a group of neighbors. ALSO in Wilkes County, N. C. was Nathan/Nathaniel Horton
whose y-dna profile is a match to Lee Henry Estep. And Lee Henry Estep is also a family finder cousin match to a Davis family descended from a Nathan/Nathaniel Horton daughter.
The Rowan County, N. C.
deed abstracts provide further proof. Benjamin Caudill, the brother to Ann Caudill Adams, signed as a witness on a deed of purchase for David Caudill who bought the property
where the original Samuel Estep land grant is shown on the Davie County, N. C. land grant map. Stephen Caudill's son, Isham Caudill married Elizabeth Buckner who probably was the sister of John Buckner. The Rowan County, N. C.
deed abstracts include a property purchase by Edward Buckner (who married Nancy Thompson, the daughter of James Fields Thompson) and the list of witnesses include Isham Caudill,
Benjamin Caudill, and John Buckner. John Buckner's daughter Annie married James Fields Thompson's son Azariah Pack Thompson. So there is documented evidence of family relationships
between the Buckner, Caudill, and Thompson families prior to Wilkes and Buuncombe County, N. C. The Estep family finder matches show that Lee Henry Estep and
James Ronald Thompson are cousins to a big portion of those Adams, Estep, and other families who migrated to Wilkes County, N. C. and thence to Floyd/Letcher County, Kentucky.
Wilkes County, N. C. is the location where the descendants from George Taylor, the brother of Elisha Thompson's wife Elizabeth "Betsie" Taylor, migrated. Some of Elisha Thompson's children were born in
Wilkes County, N. C. The Thompson, Sams, Buckner, Estep, Penix, and others migrated further to Buncombe County, N. C. and bought property near the Big Ivy River
north of Flat Creek Baptist Church. The minutes of the church prove the attendance of the Thompson, Penix, Sams, and Buckner families there. Also proven in the minutes is a
marital relationship between the Sams family and the Buckner family, likely the daughter of Nancy Thompson Buckner who married a Sams.
Click here to download the Henry Estep DNA analysis with cousin finder matches and evidence of cousin relationships.
This could be the story of any of those courageous Scottish Covenanters who dared to defy the corrupt powers who attempted to impose their evil wills upon Christian people. Religious persecution was the motivation for William Thomson's migration to America? My uncle Brad Thompson told his son Clyde that two
Thompson brothers migrated to America because of religious persecution. My aunts Viola and Beulah Thompson told me that the Thompsons were Scotch/Irish and Black Dutch. When most of the research had been completed and the early documents studied I found that our ancestor John Thompson
married a dutch lady called Yacomintye Eltinge. Her family originally came from the Netherlands and would have been called "black dutch". The Charles County, Maryland
documents showed that William Thompson was the father of John Thompson and that brothers William and Christopher Thompson migrated to America about
1685. Their brother Walter Thompson remained in Edinburgh, Scotland. The book, "The Covenanter's Quest", documents the spiritual impact of a family that yielded probably thousands of ministers who served in churches across a growing nation. They
were a part of multiple denominations, beginning as Presbyterian and then becoming Primitive Baptists whose descendants later became Southern/Regular Baptists. Some were Methodist ministers.
Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are mostly historical accounts about Scotland, the Covenanters, and the Dutch maternal ancestors who settled Ulster County, New York. Most of these articles are paraphrased from various online
historical web sites. Some information was taken from various Beall web sites in order to accurately indicate how Col. Ninian Beall transported these Scottish families to America and settled them in Charles County, Maryland.
The account about the Dutch maternal ancestors begins with John Van Meteren and his wife Sarah DuBois Van Meteren. The couple were the parents of Rebecca Van Meteren who married Cornelius Eltinge. Yacomintye
Eltinge, the daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca Van Meteren Eltinge, married John Thompson who was the son of migrating ancestor William Thomson. The Van Meteren family migrated from Kingston, Ulster County, New York
to New Jersey and thence to Maryland where Cornelius Eltinge owned a grist mill at the outlet of Seneca Creek to the Potomac River.
General George S. Patton was descended from Eleanor Eltinge, the sister of Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson. Eleanor married Isaac Hite Sr. Another sister, Sarah Eltinge, was married to Isacc's brother John Hite.
John and Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson's son, William Thompson married Susannah Fields and their son James Fields Thompson was the father of Elisha Thompson.
The earliest Thomson maternal ancestors were the Dutch and Hugenot families who migrated to Kingston, Ulster County, New York about 1650. They established the Dutch Reformed Church at Kingston which is still active and is probably the earliest religious body that is still in existence. The Van Meteren and DuBois maternal ancestors are buried in the cemetery at this church, although the graves are not individually marked.
The Van Meteren family was from "Van" Metere of the Netherlands. The DuBois family was descended from both English and French Crowns and banished because of their Protestant religious views. According to internet files for the DuBois family, among Sarah Dubois' maternal ancestors were Kings Henry I and Henry II of England, Frankish E. Charlemagne, and Kings of Italy and Germany. It seems almost unbelievable that these were the ancestors of Sarah DuBois so for that reason I did not include these ancestral files in the Thompson GED. However, if anyone wants to examine the internet ancestral files for Sarah DuBois you can do so from the following file:
Click here for the Sarah DuBois ancestral file based on internet sources.
Several people who have the DuBois family in their ancestral files have uploaded geds to the gedmatch.com site. Some of those people have also uploaded raw autosomal dna files to the site. The following pdf document discusses the comparison of three proven Thompson descendant's
raw data files with the raw data files of those DuBois descendants. The gedmatch.com site allows one to one comparison of autosomal dna raw data files to detect cousin relationships. So if anyone thinks they are also descended from the DuBois family they can upload their own autosomal dna files to gedmatch.com and
compare against the test numbers found in the attached discussion. When autosomal dna raw data files from those claiming to be descended from the DuBois family were compared to the Thompson raw data files they did match as cousins. They also matched as cousins to each other. The raw data files found in the following
link are a good bench mark to confirm the DuBois family as ancestors. Also, one file is a raw data file from a person claiming descent from Rebecca Van Meteren Eltinge and that person also matches as a cousin to the Thompsons and to the others as well.
Click here to download the Thompson and DuBois dna analysis procedures and disucssion.
There are details documented in early Maryland records which indicate that brothers Christopher and William Thomson were transported to Scotland Hundred among a congregation of Prebyterian Scotts who formed the Presbyterian Church at Bladensburg, Maryland. William Thomson was settled upon property called "Scotland" upon which the Fort Lincoln Cemetery now sits. His name and that of his property are on the plaque at the location. His brother, Christopher Thomson, was settled upon property called "White Lackington." Another brother "Walter Thomson" had property in Scotland Hundred at Bladensburg, Maryland but remained in Edinburgh, Scotland where he was a merchant. All the specific details including those about William's father-in-law John Chittham/Chattham are included in the book.
William Thomson and Ann Chittham Thomson had children Margaret, Mary, Christopher, and John. Margaret married James Shaw who died young and married second Robert Riddle. Mary married James Marcey Pearre and the couple owned a farm located near Comus, Maryland which remained in the family until sold about 1948. (The details are in the book "The History Of Comus" written by Donna Cutler.) Christopher died young and never married. John Thompson and brother-in-law James Marcey Pearre signed as witnesses on the Allison property upon which the White House now sits. John married Yacomintye Eltinge and the couple had children William, John, Cornelius, and Ann.
John and Yacomintye ELtinge Thompson's son William Thompson married Susannah Fields, the daughter of James Fields and unknown spouse. William's brother John Thompson married Eleanor Dick, the daughter of Archibald Dick. William's brother Cornelius Thompson married an Elizabeth Unknown. William's sister Ann Thompson married Angus McDonald who collected rent for George Washington on property that Washington owned in Virginia. There is a George Washington diary entry about a dinner that Angus McDonald and brother-in-law William Thompson attended with George Washington. There are a multitude of deeds pertaining to properties that the Thompsons owned in Maryland. Pictures of the properties and other details are in the book.
A brief summary of the Thompson lineage is:
Generation 1: William Thomson and Ann Chittam Thompson-children Christopher, John, Mary Thompson Pearre, and Margaret Thompson Shaw
Generation 2: John Thompson and Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson-children William Thompson, John Thompson, Cornelius Thompson Anna Thompson McDonald
Generation 3: William Thompson and wife Susannah Fields Thompson-Their children are indicated on the James Fields Thompson one line ancestry file below.
Generation 4. James Fields Thompson and wife Nancy Pack Thompson-Their children are indicated on the James Fields Thompson rtf file below.
Generation 5. Elisha Thompson and wife Elizabeth "Betsie" Taylor Thompson-Their children are indicated on the James Fields Thompson rtf file below.
Generation 6. Rev. William Thompson and wife Annie Penix Thompson;James Thompson and Rutha Estep Thompson-Their children are indicated on the James Fields Thompson rtf file below.
Generation 7. Joseph Henry Thompson and wife Martha Lucinda Thompson (first cousins)-Their children are indicated on the James Fields Thompson rtf file below.
Generation 8. James Henry Thompson and wife Hester Lily Grant Thompson-Their children are listed on the James Fields Thompson rft file below or on the above GED file..
The last account of John and Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson's sons John and Cornelius was in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Most of the Thompson properties were on land that was formerly part of a 40,000 acre land grant obtained by John Van Meteren from the English Crown. But John Van Meteren sold that land grant to Isaac Hiatt Sr. whose son later became one of the richest people in America, marrying "Dolly" Madison, the sister of President James Madison.
Another interesting historical note is that General George S. Patton was descended from Yacomintye Elting Thompson's sister Eleanor who married Col. Isaac Hite.Click here to download a PDF fan file which shows the ancestry of George S. Patton. This file wrongly shows Sara as married to Isaac Hite but
she was married to Isaac's brother John Hite. Sara's sister Eleanor was instead married to Isaac Hite.
(Click here for a picture of William Thompson's first cousin Isaac Hite Jr., a picture of the house he built, and a picture of his wife Nellie Madison, sister of President James Madison.)
It should be noted that the Hite family wealth probably came from the 40,000 acres that Joist Hite bought from John Van Meteren. The Thompsons inherited some property from their parents but since they were eight years old and younger
when they were orphaned they were placed into the care of relatives, some of whom took the children's property and land rents for their OWN use. It was only after 1790 before anything was received from the stolen assets. The guilty parties never paid
the court judgement to the Thompsons and properties were sold by the Sheriff to make a partial payment. The only evidence that William Thompson owned property when he died was indicated by the Augusta County, Virgina court suit of Marshall vs Thompson indicating a disputed property
located in Hampshire County, Virginia having the same adjoining neighbors as indicated on the Isaac Hite deed. Probably the Thompsons received about $100.00 each from William Thompson's estate because James Fields Thompson was a poor tenant farmer in
Montgomery Maryland working on the Trail property. Yet when he migrated to Rowan/Davie County, N. C. in 1794 he purchased a property from Benjamin Gilpin for about $100.00. He later purchased a better property and sold the first after Nancy Pack Thompson received $100.00 for her father's estate.
(Click here for ancestrial line for General George S. Patton and Thompsons all descended from the daughters of Cornelius and Rebecca Van Meteren Eltinge.)
The Thompson Y-DNA is documented in appendix I of the book "The Covenanter's Quest." This profile has been confirmed by matches from
John Harvey Thompson and Elisha Thompson descendants as well. The Y-DNA profiles match for Cecil Thompson (John Harvey Thompson descendant), Jeff Thompson
(descended from Elisha Thompson's son Elisha), and Ron Thompson (descended from Elisha Thompson's son James). James Ronald Thompson also did a cousin finder
test which is valid for both male and females through 5th cousins. These test results confirmed 4th cousin matches for James Ronald Thompson, Lee Henry Estep who descends from Nehemiah Thompson, and
Pat Brawner Schiro who is descended from Elisha Thompson's daughter Nancy who married William Gentry. So if anyone wants to confirm a relationship
to this Thompson line the DNA tests are available for comparison. There are several lines of Thompsons who are related to this family but
who remain unlocated.
Although many attempts have been made to locate descendants from the brothers of William Thompson, none have been identified. But from family finder dna matches it appears that their families have been wrongly included as members of the family of William Thompson and Nancy Jackson of Russell County, Virginia. So the only proven Thompson descendants are those who descend from William Thompson and Susannah Fields Thompson through their son James Fields Thompson. There were sons John, Joseph, Henry, and William whose descendants have never been located. They also appear to have disappeared into West Virginia. Because of the faulty research and the reluctance of researchers to admit errors it appears that the only way these descendants will be identified is by a y-dna match to the three Thompson descendants from James Fields Thompson and wife Nancy Pack Thompson. The descendants from Cornelius Thompson appear to have gone to Hampshire County, West Virginia where their Van Meteren cousins and Isaac Hite Sr. owned property.
The Thompson raw data file from descendants James Ronald Thompson and Lee Henry Estep have been uploaded to the gedmatch.com web site. You can go to that
site and do comparisons of the Thompson chromosome patterns to those of others who have uploaded to that site. The number of James Ronald Thompson's file is f188390. The number for
Lee Henry Estep's file is f198176. The Thompson family ged file is identified as number 1337283.
If you do a ged file comparison with the Thompson ged file against the entire public data base on that site you will find Sarah DuBois listed in the ancestral files of
several families. I was curious as to whether or not the DNA profiles would be shared between these descendant lines from the DuBois family. So I compared the test numbers
which were given with the GED files which showed Sarah DuBois and an ancestor. I knew that the distance was at about 9th or 10th cousin range but ran the comparison. What I found
is that ALL of the Thompson descendants DO SHARE autosomal DNA with these people who claim Sarah DuBois in their ancestral line. To protect the privacy of those others who match,
I am not listing their test numbers. But I share above 6 cM of continous block autosomal dna and about three blocks of dna with one person's raw data. Lee Henry Estep shares three
blocks of dna with the same person but with block widths of about 4 cM. So these results are in fact consistent with the claims about the DuBois family as ancestors. Further, there are
multiple files with connection to the same family and they all DO SHARE common autosomal dna with the Thompson descendants. So the dna evidence is confirming the
accuracy of the ged files.
In order to aid in cousin finder research the ancestral file of James Ronald Thompson for FT-DNA cousin test number 188390 has
been added which can be downloaded from the following links. Several ancestral lines have already been confirmed by Y-DNA tests and
Ft-DNA cousin finder tests. A connection between Mary Jane Potts and James Potts has been indicated by a cousin finder match of descendant Ron Thompson to
5th-distant cousin Gary Wayne Bradford who is descended from James Potts. Most likely other Potts family matches are in the family finder results
as well. In 1810 John Penix and Mary Jane Potts were living in Russell County, Virginia near his father, Joshua Penix. By 1820 they
had moved back to Burke County, N. C. In later years John and Mary Jane Potts Penix moved to
Buncombe County, N. C. and were in attendance at Flat Creek Baptist Church before moving their membership to Big Ivy Baptist Church near Barnardsville, N. C.
The church records at Big Ivy Baptist Church were destroyed by fire in 1904.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO POTTS AND ABSHIRE PAGE DISCUSSING PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP TO MARY JANE POTTS PENIX.
Click here to download shortened version of Ron Thompson's ancestral file.
The following file is also included to aid in cousin finder searches. This file is for the ancestors of Violet Whaley who married George Treffenstatt.
These are the ancestors of James Ronald Thompson.
Click here to download Ron Thompson's Whaley ancestral file.
Newly added to this site is the book "A Legacy In The Land" which is the story of the McMinn County, Tennessee Brock family. This is the
maternal ancestrial line of the web site owner. It includes Terry Wayne Brock and Elizabeth Walker descendants from Alfred Berry Brock and
Hariett Smith. Also included are the Wattenbarger and Smith ancestral lines. This 98 megabyte file is not downloadable by phone modem because of the time it requires.
Click here to download the book: A Legacy In The Land.
The following PDF file contains all known ancestors for Guilema Rebecca Brock Thompson. This includes the Smith, Wattenbarger, and Brock families.
Click here to download Guilema Rebecca Brock Thompson ancestrial file.
Click here to download file containing Guilma Rebecca Brock's Buttram ancestors.
The specific details, deeds, wills, and other proof documents are contained in the various chapters of the book "The Covenanter's Quest" which can be downloaded from this web site.
PDF file with Elizabeth "Betsie" Taylor Thompson's parents, siblings and their descendants.
****Take note that this is a corrected file replacing errors contained in the previous file. Some errors can possibly still remain in this file.****
GED file with Elizabeth "Betsie" Taylor Thompson's parents, siblings and their descendants.
The Thompsons, Pack, and Fields, Penix, and Potts ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. The Thompson, Pack, and Fields families fought in the Montgomery County, Maryland Militia.
Henry C. Peden, Jr in the book Rev. Patriots of Montgomery
County, Maryland 1776-1783 indicates on page 256 that William Pack Sr was Private, 1st Co., Middle Bn., Militia Aug 30 1777. That was James Fields Thompson's father
in law. On page 112 Peden states that James (plus brother Matthew) Fields joined as private, 4th Co., Upper Bn Miliitia Aug. 30, 1777. These were James Fields Thompson's cousins.
On page 323 Peden documents that James Thompson Private, 4th Co., Middle Bn Militia Sept 1777 joined the SAME company at the same time as did his Fields cousins.
His brother John Thompson is shown on that same page and documented as joining on the same day but was placed into 3rd Co., Middle Bn.
James Fields Thompson grandson, the Rev. William Thompson married into the maternal lines of Potts and Joshua Penix. The father of Mary Jane Potts is unknown although James Potts was the only Potts living in the area where she married John Penix. Mary Jane Potts Penix's census records indicate she was born before James Potts married Susannah Absher.
But the cousin finder match to a James Potts descendant trumps the census records or possibly James Potts had been married previously and Susannah Absher was his second wife, not first. There are so many errors in old documents and in particular
census records that they are not an authoritative source. (Even my own father's birth certificate is recorded with the wrong name on it.) John Penix's
daughter Annie Penix was my great great grandmother. John's father Joshua Penix fought in the Revolutionary War with Daniel Boone and is listed on the plaque at Boonesborough.
So three of these four related families are documented as
contributing in some way to the Revolutionary War efforts and are all the ancestors of James Ronald Thompson, owner of this web site.
Click here to download a pdf file containing the ancestrial fan tree for James Henry Thompson, grandfather of web site owner.
The following three links require a password. These files are ONLY available to direct Thompson family descendants. You must go to the home page
and send an e-mail to Ron Thompson per the contact information from that page to obtain a password to download these files.
(Electronic book "From The Cradle To The Grave-The William Thompson Family From Edinburgh, Scotland")--13.3 megabytes main book
(Electronic book ")--.5 megabytes appendix only
(Valerie Thompson Cearley has written a book "UNBROKEN CIRCLE" about some of the descendants of this family. Click here to obtain the details.)
Click on this link to read the true origin of the word "Redneck"."REDNECK" DOES NOT AT ALL represent the slovenly and drunken class of people as portrayed by leftist social perverts. The term "Redneck" was a
RELIGIOUS scarf or garment symbol worn around the neck by covenanter Presbyterian Scotts who objected to a carnal minded king presuming himself to be the HEAD of the church rather than Jesus. That covenant was
signed by many of the Scotts using the blood from their own bodies as the ink. Click on the above link to read the details and to view Elisha Lunsford, the
grandson of Elisha Thompson who wore the traditional scarf around his neck during the Civil War. No doubt his mother Elizabeth Thompson Lunsford made that
scarf and gave it to her son to wear into battle. It is shown as a black and white picture but very probably was the traditional red and black scarf. To obtain FACTS about
the Scottish National Covenant you can search the internet and obtain specific details about the murder ot the presbyterian Scotts by Kings Charles II and James II of
England. If you are a Thompson descendant those details including the Scottish National Covenant are included in the Thompson Family Book "From The Cradle To The Grave".
There are several lost paternal descendant lines from John and Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson. We know that their son William had property in Hampshire County, W. V.
and that his son John was living on it in 1801. We also know that William's brothers John and Cornelius died testate in Berkeley County, W. V.
If you are trying to locate your Thompson ancestors from Maryland or Virginia please check out information linked below:
Click here to check out these Thompsons of Maryland and Virginia.
Link to Mike Marshall's files pertaining to migrating ancestor William Thompson of Charles County, Maryland.
***THE FOLLOWING DETAILS PERTAIN TO MIGRATING ANCESTOR WILLIAM THOMSON AND CHILDREN***
(Click here to see EXACTLY where William Thom(p)son lived in Charles County, Maryland)
He owned the tract "Scotland" per the 1685 original landgrant and the Historic Fort Lincoln Cemetery waymark was on his property. Also, my research
indicates that the spring house later built by George Conn was ALSO on the tract "Scotland". The map and GPS coordinates will take
you to the spot where these Thomsons first lived in America. They were neighbors to the Rev. Hugh Conn and the Col. Ninian Bealle. MOST LIKELY
William's son in law James Pearre was a relative of the Admiral Commodore Perry who later lived in the same location.
(Click here to see pictures of Mill Site at Seneca Ford where maternal ancestor Cornelius Eltinge
owned a grist mill.)
He was John Thompson's father in law. The relics remaining at the site are from mills that were constructed at a later period on the same site.)
(Click here to see a picture of Great Falls, Maryland.)
John Thompson owned property in 1751 called Thompson's Hopyard.
The southernmost boundary of that property lay near the second falls, per old Maryland State Archives. John Thompson also owned Darby Island and Fair Island when he died. It
seems very likely that Olmstead Island is one of those tracts. The name was changed in about 1850 to honor a "politician".
(Click here for details about deeds recorded by William and John Thompson and descendants-from Montgomery Cnty. Hist. Society files and Charles County, Md records)
****It should be noted that the Potomack River landscape has changed and the names of the Islands are different now.****
John Thompson married Yacomintye Elting around 1737. She was the daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca Van Meteren Eltinge who operated a grist mill at the outlet of Seneca Creek to the Potomac River. John inherited property
from his father William and later signed that property over to his nephew, Margaret Thompson Shaw's son William Shaw.
John and Yacomintye settled in Fredericks County, Maryland. Take note that this area was orginally Charles County, Maryland and was
renamed to Prince George's County and then Fredericks County, Maryland. Fredericks County, Maryland was then split to form two counties
with the southern portion being Montgomery County and the northern portion remaining Fredericks County. The area where William Thompson was living
is now part of Washington, D. C. and the area where John Thompson lived is now Montgomery County, Maryland. It appears that John and Yacomintye
Thompson owned property obtained from her relatives and also from his own relatives. The locations of those properties can be seen pinpointed on an 1861 map found in the appendix A of the above listed book "The Coveanter's Quest."
Also found in that book are pictures of the Thompson properties. Listed below is a link to a modern Street Atlas map which also shows Thompson property locations.
The DNA test results indicate that other relatives probably
migrated to Ulster County, New York because there was a DNA match to a Henry Thompson in Brunswick, N. J. who married a relative
of the Elting family. There also was another slightly more distant DNA match to a descendant of another Henry Thompson of Ulster
County, New York. Then there was a similiar match to a William McTavish from Lanark, Scotland. Some historical sources
state that the McTavish family were Highlander Scots who were defeated by the British in war duing the fifteenth century
and afterwards changed their name to Thomson to avoid persecution.
(Click here for background about the Lord Fairfax Court Case referenced below. Fairfax disputed the land grant given to William Thompson's Great Great
great grandfather John Van Meter/Meteren. Since John and Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson's son William inherited part of that property he HAS TO BE the William Thompson referenced in the suit. James Thompson
is specifically named in the suit and as one of William's Children. This document combines a history of the Van Meteren pioneers in America with an account about the faith of Sarah Dubois' mother. Both Sarah
Dubois and Joost (John Van Meteren) were captured by Indians as infants. The couple later married and were the maternal ancestors of the John Thompson family because their grand daughter Yacomintye Elting married
John Thompson.
(Click here for details about Virginia Court Case listing William Thompson died 1793. It names the living children.) ***This should be a
proof document showing that William Thompson had a son named James. Also the location was apparently Berkeley County, W. V.
(Click here for details about the Seneca Primitive Baptist Church-Fields and Packs attended this church
(Map location--Seneca Primitive Baptist Church was located at Dawsonville, Md. William Thompson probably lived between Dawsonville and the Potomac River.
****The small Islands located on the Potomac River are named differently now but probably belonged to John Thompson in 1751.****
John Thompson died between 1747 and 1751. His will named Yacomintye Eltinge Thompson and their children as heirs. But Yacomintye Eltinge
Thompson also died shortly thereafter. When you consult the will of Yacomintye's widowed mother, Rebecca Eltinge, you find that she left her
estate to her son Isaac Eltinge and nothing to her daughter Yacomintye. That was because Yacomintye was already deceased prior to her mother. Isaac Eltinge was the executor of Yacomintye Eltinge's estate and the guardian for her underaged children. But Isaac Eltinge
also died and that responsibility fell to Rudolph Eltinge. Court records show that Isaac's widow Mary Eltinge was not satisfied with her share
of the estate as outlined by the Isaac Eltinge will. So she filed a court document asking for her share per law. Internet sources state
that Sarah Elting, the widow of Rudoplh Elting, took control of the property belonging to the Thompson children and took it for her own use
until 1761. Sarah then married a Clappet and Mary Elting married John Cary. One Chancery court record was a petition by Sarah and John Clappet
for relief in lieu of paying the amount ordered by a previous court. Chancery Court records as late as 1791 document that the Thompson
children never received their property, although some records indicate a distribution of the estate.
LOCATION MAPS SHOWING THE SITE OF EACH HOME PLACE/PROPERTY OF THOMPSON MIGRATIONS
****Note: These maps trace William Thomson family origin in Edinburgh, Scotland and each successive generation thereafter beginning in Charles County, Maryland
and ending in McMinn County, Tennessee****Take note that beginning in Edinburgh, Scotland and through 1828 the Thompsons ALWAYS lived near
a major waterway. Edinburgh,Scotland was a port for seafaring ships. William Thomson migrated to America and lived near the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River and
a ferry landing was located on his property. John Thompson lived near the Potomac River in Fredericks/Montgomery County, Maryland and owned Islands on the Potomac
River. William Thompson lived on property willed to him near the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland. James Fields Thompson bought property that was
located within 1/4 mile of the Yadkin River in Davie County, North Carolina (formerly Rowan County). Elisha Thompson and descendants lived in Cherokee County, North
Carolina not far from the Hiwassee River.
JAMES THOMPSON 1814 WILL PAGE 1
JAMES THOMPSON 1814 WILL PAGE 2
TRANSCRIPTION OF JAMES THOMPSON WILL
Nancy Pack Thompson's Pack ancestors
Street Atlas driving directions to James Thompson farm in Davie County, N. C.
Map Showing 1814 James Thompson Property Location: Davie County, N. C.
Original Davie County, N. C. landgrant map showing James Thompson Property Locations
****Note: Between 1794 and 1807 James Thompson lived on 164 A. property bought from Benjamin Gilpin. From 1807-1832 the family lived on property that
was formerly owned by John Harry. That 216 acre tract lay between John's (Harry's) Creek and (Giles) Mill Creek.****
Download pages from History of Davie County about Fork Baptist Church-written by James W. Wall.
Download continuation page of above article.
Download Wordpad Document containing deed abstracts for James Fields Thompson property
DOWNLOAD JPG 1790 Montgomery County, MD Census file with William Thompson, William Pack Sr, Thomas Pack, Fields family + many more relatives
****Note: The above Montgomery County, Md census record indicates where James Thompson's father in law William Pack Sr. lived + other likely relatives ie William Thompson and Fields Family.
DOWNLOAD various Rowan County/Davie County, N. C. deed abstracts that pertain to James Thompson children and inlaws
DOWNLOAD JPG Historical 1878 Map of Davie County, N. C.
DOWNLOAD JPG Historical map showing original Davie County land grant owners AND the ORIGINAL LOCATION OF FORK BAPTIST CHURCH--probably site of lost cemetery
DOWNLOAD JPG 1800 Rowan Cnty Census file with James Fields Thompson, Reason Pack, Azariah Pack, + many more relatives
DOWNLOAD JPG 1820 Rowan Cnty Census file with Nancy Pack Thompson, Reason Pack, Azariah Pack, + many more relatives
*****Note: The above Rowan County Census records are for that area now in Davie County just north of the Yadkin River.
DOWNLOAD RTF DATA FILE ABOUT Margaret Thompson Taggart Descendants
DOWNLOAD RTF DATA FILE ABOUT William J. and Lucy Banks Thompson Descendants
DOWNLOAD RTF DATA FILE ABOUT Zadock and Elizabeth Mullican Thompson Descendants
DOWNLOAD RTF DATA FILE ABOUT Reason and Hannah Robards Thompson Descendants
DOWNLOAD RTF DATA FILE ABOUT Azariah Pack Thompson Descendants
DOWNLOAD RTF DATA FILE which lists James Thompson's children and son Elisha Thompson descendants.
The above RTF file was compiled mostly by Elisha Thompson descendent Mike Colucci. I have managed to tie several internet files together regarding some of the James Thompson
descendents. A special thanks is given to Mike for his efforts and hopefully he will not mind me sharing it with Thompson family researchers. The other files pertaining to James
Thompson and Nancy Pack Thompson's children have been created with the assistance of researchers Barbara Turner and Virginia Helms Thompson. A special thank you is due both
researchers. These files may have errors in them and definitely lack all of the descendants. They are here for research only. If any reader has information regarding James
Thompson/Nancy Pack or descendants please contact me via e-mail address found on my home page.
Go To another internet site to view John Harvey Thompson files
Another object of this web page is to display and allow downloads of images of 1800 and
1900 era pictures of the descendants of James Thompson/Nancy Pack of Rowan County, Cherokee County, and Buncombe County
North Carolina.
Recent research has confirmed that several Thompson maternal ancestors also followed the same migrational path as did the William Thompson descendants. In particular,
the Estep family migrated from Charles County, Maryland to Fredericks/Montgomery County, Maryland and thence to Rowan/Davie County, North Carolina. Then a later migration took
place toward Buncombe County, North Carolina with some ties to Wilkes and Burke Counties, North Carolina. Elisha Thompson's son James married Ruth Estep during that migration and
some Esteps also migrated with the Thompsons to Cherorkee County, North Carolina. It appears that Ruth was the daughter of Henry Estep and wife Sarah MNU and the granddaughter of
Samuel Estep and Susanna Adams Estep who lived within two miles of the James Fields Thompson property in Rowan/Davie County, North Carolina. That this is correct has been proven by the
recent family finder dna matches to almost all of the families who descend from John Adams and Nancy Ann Caudill Admas who were the parents of Susannah Adams. But the Estep paternal line
DNA profile appears to be the Horton line descended from Nathanial Horton of Ashe County, N. C. as shown by multiple dna matches. This makes it likely that Samuel Estep was the son of
a Horton widow and the stepson of Thomas Estep Sr. OR he was from a totally different Estep line. Further, the matches to the Wilkes and Ashe County, N. C. Estep families and their
descendants are ALSO confirming this is true for the Jacob Estep descendants.
Some of the later generations of Thompsons and Esteps migrated from Cherokee County, North Carolina into McMinn County and Polk County, Tennessee.
Another maternal tie is between Joshua Penix and son John Penix via his daughter Annie Penix who married Rev. William Thompson, another of Elisha's sons.
Those maternal family files are now included below in PDF format but keep in mind that part of the files came from other internet sources.
***Click here to view the picture of Lousia Penix Banks' tombstone located in Maney Cemetery in Buncombe County, N. C.
Louisa Penix Banks was the sister of Annie Penix Thompson and was the great-great-aunt of the web site owner. Special thanks to Valerie Thompson Cearley for doing the field trip, locating the tombstone, and taking this picture.
PDF file of Joshua Penix descendancy from his son John Penix.
This link gives a picture of Maney Cemetery in Buncombe County, N. C. where Annie Penix Thompson's sister Louisa is buried. Her tombstone indicates her as Louisa Banks, wife of Berry P. Banks and daughter of John Penix.
Click here to go to remote site to view picture.
PDF file of Ruth Estep's ancestry and descendants. Ancestors previous to Samuel Estep are unproven but taken from internet sources.
Transcription of Simon Taylor's Hampshire County, Va. Will. **** DNA test results show that the Simon Taylor descendant's DNA was not a match in modern history to the DNA results for a descendant from George Taylor of Rowan/Davie County, N. C.****
PDF file with Elizabeth "Betsie" Taylor Thompson's parents and siblings and their descendants.
The link below partially provides the ancestry of James Fields Thompson. The complete ancestrial line is found only in the Thompson Family GED file above.
DOWNLOAD ONE LINE JAMES FIELDS THOMPSON ANCESTRY GENFILE
Go To Page to View James Fields Thompson Homeplace Pictures (location Davie County, North Carolina
Go To Page To View John Harvey Thompson Family Pictures
Go To Page To View Azariah Pack Thompson Family Pictures
Go To Page To View Elisha Thompson Family Graves In Uanaka Baptist Church and Old Unaka Cemeteries
***Note:The Elisha Thompson grave is in Old Unaka Cemetery which is sometimes called Rose Cemetery ALTHOUGH the Thompson family owned BOTH properties and donated them.
Go To Page To View Thompson Family Graves In Union McMinn Baptist Church Cemetery
Thanks to Nina Bowman, descendant of Elisha Thompson's daughter Elizabeth Thompson Lunford, for the following three pictures.
Picture of Elisha Thompson's daughter Elizabeth Thompson and husband James Thomas Lunsford
Elisha Thompson's grandson Elisha Lunsford's Civil War picture -take note of red scottish scarf worn around neck-hence the term "redneck"
Elisha Lunsford was the second cousin to Mary Jane Lunsford, the greatgrandmother of Audie LeonMurphy who was the most decorated soldier in World
War II. Nimrod Lunsford and Elizabeth Wyatt were their common ancestors whose son Michael Lunsford was Audie’s line and whose son Thomas Lunsford was the grandfather of Elisha Lunsford. James Thomas and Betsy Thompson Lunsford were Elisha Lunsford’s parents
Picture of Elisha Lunsford's wife Sara Pruit Lunsford and family
*****Special thanks to Jim (Red) Thompson and wife Trudy of Phoenix, Az for these first four pictures.*****
NEW***Picture of Elisha Thompson's son Nehemiah M. Thompson and his wife Lucienda Jane FieldsView Nehemiah and Lucienda Jane
NEW***Picture of Turkey Creek Baptist Church (Tellico Mountains) ca 1920-30. Beginning at the left side of the picture, the man with the child in his arms is Harvey Fields Thompson.
The child in his arm is Pearley Thompson. The lady to the right of Harvey (wearing the hat) is his wife Louisa Thompson. Looking at the door way and to the left
standing in front of the 2nd man to left wearing a round hat and with a scarf is Cynthia Miller Thompson, the wife of Elijah Fields Thompson who is standing to the left of
and behind her wearing a hat and with a mustache. At the back of the picture and standing near the right side of the door holding a baby (Pauline Thompson) is Robert Oliver
Thompson and to the right of him and slightly below is his first wife Vira. There are several other Thompsons also in the picture but not identified.
Click here to view Turkey Creek Baptist Church Picture of members -Tellico Mountains-
NEW***Oct. 1951 picture of Vastine Thompson and family--L to R back row: Claude (19), Vastine (40), his wife Iva (35) holding baby Jerry (5 months), Edna (14)
L to R front row: Cecil (11), Delores (2 1/2), Betty (4 yrs 10 months), Pasty (8)
Click here to view picture
NEW***Picture of Cynthia Miller Thompson (left) and her husband Elijah Fields Thompson (right) Click here to view picture
NEW**Picture of Ruth(Estep) Thompson-wife of James A. Thompson with son William A. approx. 1880. VIEW RUTHIE
NEW**Remains of James A. Thompson and Ruth (Estep) Thompson homeplace in Hanging Dog, N. C VIEW HOME PLACE
NEW**Picture of bluegrass pickers. L to R Guitar Jim Click,fiddle Oliver H. Thompson, banjo Bill Bryson(approx. 1920) VIEW PICKERS
***It should be noted that BEFORE the BLUEGRASS LEGENDS such as Bill Monroe made BLUEGRASS Popular, THOMPSONS were playing bluegrass music. This music came from SCOTLAND with these Scottish Immigrants.***
NEW**1880 era Picture of Julia (Grant) Foland -sister to Theodrick Bradford Grant who was the father of Hester Lily (Grant) Thompson who was the wife of James Henry Thompson.VIEW JULIA
NEW**Blues style song written and performed by Ron Thompson about Theodrick Bradford Grant's Whiskey Jug.Click here to download mp3 file of song.
1. Unaka Log Dam built by Joseph Henry Thompson who was the son of James Thompson and a grandson of Elisha Thompson,
and the great grandson of James Thompson/Nancy VIEW PICTURE 1
2. This sawmill was located in McMinn County, Tn., was owned by Oliver Harrison Thompson, a g g grandson of Elisha Thompson
and a g g grandson of James Thompson/NancyVIEW PICTURE 2
3. This steam powered tractor furnished power to the sawmill of picture number 2. It also was used to pull a wheat
combine that was operated by the Thompson family. VIEW PICTURE 3
4. A picture of Isaac "Ike" Thompson who was a brother of Joseph Henry Thompson, the son of James
Thompson, the grandson of Elisha Thompson and the g Grandson of James Thompson/Nancy.
VIEW PICTURE 4
5. Another picture of Isaac "Ike" Thompson. VIEW PICTURE 5
6. A picture of John L. Thompson and Callie Bates. John L. was the son of James Thompson and brother to Isaac "Ike" Thompson
and of Joseph Henry Thompson who were the grand children of Elisha Thompson and g grandchildren of James Thompson/Nancy
VIEW PICTURE 6
7. A picture of Joseph Henry Thompson and wife Martha Lucinda Thompson with their children and some grandchildren.
VIEW PICTURE 7
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