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who married Ruth (last name unknown). DAUGH-
TER: Jane (?-1762), who married William Frisby
(1684-1738), son of William Frisby (by 1664-1713).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate, had cleri-
cal skills; possibly attended Middle Temple, 1674.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican, North Sassaf-
ras Parish, Cecil County. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES, acquired a series of minor clerkships
soon after arrival. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
placeman; attorney, admitted to Cecil County
Court by 1686; planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Cecil County,
1694-1697 (Accounts 7; Laws 3-6), 1697/98-1700
(Accounts 1-4), 1701 (Accounts 1; died before
the 2nd session of the 1701-1704 Assembly).
OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICES: justice, Provincial
Court, 1697-1701; clerk, Prerogative Office, 1679-
1681. LOCAL OFFICES: clerk, Cecil County, 1681-
1685, 1689-1694; North Sassafras Parish Vestry,
1693-1700; justice, Cecil County, 1694-1697; naval
officer of Cecil County, 1695-1697, 1697-ca. 17017
2; coroner, Cecil County, 1700. MILITARY SERV-
ICE captain, by 1694; major, 1695-1697; colonel,
1697-1701/2. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: ca. 2,000 acres (1,366 acres
through wife's dower). WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
between December 10, 1701, and March 16, 1701/
2; will probated in Cecil County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY. TEV, £1,304.14.10 (including 9 slaves and
books); FB, £1,158.0.4. LAND: ca. 2,300 acres,
plus a farm in New York in partnership with a
Col. Bayard.
THOMPSON, JOHN D. (DOCKERY) (1743-
1786). BORN, on December 16, 1743, in North
Sassafras Parish, Cecil County. NATIVE: at least
third generation. RESIDED, in Bohemia, West and
North Sassafras Hundred, Cecil County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: John Thompson (1710/11-
1749), Gent., who owned land in Cecil and Prince
George's counties at death, the son of Richard
Thompson (ca. 1680-1775). GUARDIAN: John
Brown. MOTHER: Mary, a seamstress, daughter
of Rene Julian. STEPMOTHER: Jane Houston, who
subsequently married in 1752 Capt. John Brown.
BROTHERS: Samuel (1735-?), who resided in
Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in 1776; Joshua
(1745-?); George; and Edward. SISTER. Mary
(1742-?), who married (first name unknown)
Wilson. OTHER KINSHIP: great-uncle, Augustine
Thompson (1691-1738/39). MARRIED first, on May
4, 1765, Mary Haly of Philadelphia, Pennsylva-
nia. MARRIED second, Hester (surname un-
known). Hester's sister was Mary, who married
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(first name unknown) Thompson. CHILDREN. SON:
John, a minor in 1786. DAUGHTER: Mary (1767-
?). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate; re-
quested that his son be instructed in the law. RE-
LIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican, St. Stephen's
Church, North Sassafras Parish, Cecil County.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1775.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: probably planter. PUB-
LIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conventions,
Cecil County, 4th, 1775, 5th, 1775, 6th-8th, 1775-
1776. LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Cecil County, 1774-
1786; justice, Orphans' Court, Cecil County, 1777-
1786; commissioner of the tax, Cecil County, 1777 -
1782; North Sassafras Parish Vestry, 1779-1782;
judge, Court of Appeals for Tax Assessment, ap-
pointed 1786. MILITARY SERVICE: lieutenant colo-
nel, Bohemia Battalion, Cecil County Militia,
commissioned July 6, 1776. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed Value
£1,224.0.0, including 29 slaves and 9 oz. plate,
1783. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 769 acres
in Cecil County (inherited from his father and
held until 1766 by his guardian and stepfather,
Capt. John Brown). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
owned at least 673 acres, possibly as much as 742
acres, in Cecil County, 1783. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: on November 3, 1786, in Cecil County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV £1,441.11.1 current
money (including 21 slaves and more than 24
books); FB, estate overpaid £238.16.1. LAND: at
least 673 acres in Cecil County.
THOMPSON, RICHARD (ca. 1613-ca. 1649).
BORN: ca. 1613, probably in Norwich, Norfolk
County, England. IMMIGRATED: in 1636, as a free
adult with wife and child. RESIDED: on Poplar
Island, south of Kent Isle, 1636-1637; Kent Isle,
1637-ca. 1644; probably moved to Northumber-
land County, Virginia, ca. 1645. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. COUSIN: William Claiborne (1600-ca.
1677). MARRIED first, name unknown. ADDI-
TIONAL COMMENTS: Thompson's first wife prob-
ably died in an Indian massacre on Poplar Island
in 1637. MARRIED second, in 1641, Ursula Bisshe
(Bish). CHILDREN. DAUGHTERS: Sarah (?-ca. 1673),
who married by 1660 Thomas Willoughby (1632-
by 1672); Elizabeth, who married Peter Presley.
PRIVATE CAREER. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: PrOt-
estant. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: possibly
in Virginia and on Kent Isle with Claiborne as
early as 1631; brought seven servants on arrival;
relative of Maurice Thompson, a prominent Pu-
ritan merchant and partner of William Claiborne
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