John Thompson (abt. 1673 - 1734)

Born about 1673 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Parkhurst) Thompson — married 1701 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1734 at about age 61 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey

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Biography

John Thompson was born in 1673. He was the son of Hur Thompson.

John married Martha (Parkhurst) Thompson. According to John Littell, Family Records, John Thompson, son of Hur, had seven children.^[1]

Death: 25 April 1734 aged 61 Burial: First Presbyterian Church yard, Elizabethtown, NJ: ^[2] "Here Lyeth Interr'd ye Body of John Thompson Esqr who Died April ye 25th 1734, Aged 61 years."^[3]

John was listed as an Elizabethtown Associate (freeholder) in 1699. In 1694, "Widow Mary Thompson with her son John" contributed £1 5s, one of the higher amounts, to support of the local minister. John was appointed a town constable in 1714.^[4]

See also: Notes for *Hur Thompson:^[1]

Tradition in the Thompson family says that three brothers, Moses, Aaron, and Hur Thompson emigrated from Scotland to America; that one of them, (probably Moses ,) settled in Pennsylvania; one in Connecticut, and that Hur settled in Elizabethtown.

Moses, Thomas, and Hur Thompson were among the first settlers of Elizabethtown and their names are in the first list of the "Elizabethtown Associates," respecting their tract of land, of some 500,000 acres, purchased of the Indians, as recorded in the "Old Book of Records" in Elizabethtown.

In the year 1699, there was a town meeting held in Elizabethtown, of all the Associates then living, and "those holding under them, or some of them," and among these is the name of John Thompson, who is the only Thompson therein named.

And in the same "Old Book" John Thompson and Samuel Thompson are said to be sons of Hur Thompson. 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 2d Nov. 1803, aged 91 years, 9 months and 8 days. He survived his 2d wife by just one week. Tradition also says that Thomas had a brother, John Thompson. '

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Littell, John, Family records: or, Genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley (and vicinity,) above Chatham (Feltville [Berkeley Heights], NJ: Stationers Hall Press, 1851; reprint: Baltimore: Genealogy Publishing Co., 1976), p. 414; Archive.org.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7268870/john-thompson : accessed 12 May 2022), memorial page for John Thompson (1673–25 Apr 1734), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7268870, citing First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Ruth Biddle- Cheatham Family (contributor 47803726) .
3. ↑ Wheeler, William Ogden, Inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in the burying grounds of the First Presbyterian church and St. Johns church at Elizabeth, New Jersey. 1664-1892 (New Haven, CT: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1892), p. 29. Archive.org.
4. ↑ Hatfield, Edwin F., History of Elizabeth, New Jersey, including the Early History of Union County (New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1869; Carlisle, MA: Applewood Books, n.d.) 244, 284, 285, 306 Archive.org.