Jabez Thompson (1727 - 1776)

Born 3 Jul 1727 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Gunn) Johnson — married 25 Oct 1748 in Derby, New Haven, CT

Descendants

Died 15 Sep 1776 at age 49 in Long Island City, Queens, New York

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Biography

Lieut. Col Jabez Thompson served with 1st Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

Jabez Thompson was born 3 Jul 1727 in New Haven, CT, son of Daniel and Mary (Ball) Thompson. ^{[1] [2]}

bpt, Jul 1727 New Haven, New Haven, CT ^[1]

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Jabez married Sarah Gunn on 25 Oct 1748 in Derby, New Haven, CT. ^{[2] [12]}. Sarah was daughter of Nathaniel & Sarah (Wheeler) Gunn, b Feb 15 1732, d May 3 1804, she m (2) Mar 18 1778 David Johnson and m (3) John Bassett ^{[1] [13]}

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Jabez and Sarah had the following children:

1. Lois, b Dec 29 1749 ^[12], bp Mar 25 1750, m Oct 27 1766 David Pierson ^[15]
2. Anne / Amy, b Mar 5 1753 ^[12] , d Apr 14 1812, m Ebenezer Riggs ^[15]
3. Sarah, b Feb 21 1756 ^[12] , d Mar 5 1827, m Joseph Hawkins ^[15]
4. Jabez, b Jan 7 1759 ^[12], bp Mar 11 1759, m Hannah Curtis ^[15]
5. Eunice, b Jan 5 1762 ^[12], bp Mar 7 1762, m Mar 4 1799 Ashbel Steele^[15]
6. Abel, bp Jun 2 1765, d 1798, m Apame Gorham ^[15]
7. Hannah, bp Apr 10 1768, m Isaac Humphrey ^[15]
8. Betty, bp Jun 23 1771, m ____DeForest ^[15]

Jabez served in Rev. War ^[2]. He went out as first major of the 1st Regiment and captain of the 3d Company in 1775." ^[16]. He served with the Second Co., Col. Lyman's Regt. in 1757

From the History of New Haven County, CT ^[17]

... the Department of the Interior at Washington furnished the following to John D. Candee, of Bridgepoprt, March 15th, 1882: ... Col. Thompson's Connecticut regiment, where the company was engaged in several skirmishes with the enemy, followed by the retreat of the enemy to New York, and the evacuation of the city. While engaged in throwing up entrenchments, the British sailed up the East river, landed at Turtle Bay, and on Sunday, September 15, an engagement ensued, and the enemy retreated to New York. Col. Thompson's regiment was the last to retire from the occupation of the City, and he was killed in one of the battles that occurred soon after. Samuel Candee and his brother Job, who was in Capt. Beecher's Company, and Col. Thompson's Regiment, were both standing near him when he was killed, and but a minute previous had been conversing with him."

He died Sep 15 1776 killed at Kip's Bay in Rev ^{[1][2] [13][17]}

He was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT.

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Thompson Families of New Haven: Vol. VII, pg 1752, Thompson Fam. 5, #2-vi
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} War Records Families of New Haven: Vol. II, pg 497, #402
3. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 13, 15, 17, 20. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp13.htm http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp20.htm.
4. ↑ Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 55. . " ... Dec. 11, 1775 ... Committee of Inspection ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/055.html.
5. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford People in the American Revolution (1976), p. 4. . "Committee of Inspection." http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-people-in-am-rev.html.
6. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 19. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/019.html.
7. ↑ Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 598.
8. ↑ Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), 472, 474, 475, 477. . "Church Records." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/472.html.
9. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 541.
10. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 11. "March 25, 1750. Jabez Thompson and Sarah his Wife admitted to full Communion." (Oxford Congregational) http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/011.html.
11. ↑ Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 12621.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5} Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880 pg 768-99
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} Abbott: Page 321-322
14. ↑ Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 230.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7} Thompson ChildrenFamilies of New Haven: Vol. VII, pg 1764, Thompson Fam. 15
16. ↑ Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880 pg 788
17. ↑ ^{17.0 17.1} J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 1892 p. 543.
18. ↑ American Legion Cemetery List - 2003 (David S. Miles Post 174, American Legion, Oxford, Conn., 2003). . http://www.our-oxford.info/vets-graves/file0009.html.

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