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(1600-ca. 1677). OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: prob-
ably employee of Cloberry & Co.; planter by 1638;
Indian trader, 1640; attorney, 1642. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Assembly, present
1637/38, Kent Isle, 1641/42 (Aggrievances), 1642A
(Accounts; Laws). LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Kent
County, 1642; commissioner, Kent County, ap-
pointed 1642. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES:
declared an enemy of the province in 1644/45 for
joining with Claiborne in a revolt against the pro-
prietary government. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,430 acres. SIGNIFI-
CANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH: patented unknown quantity of
land in Northumberland County, Virginia, 1649.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: in 1649, by November
26, in Virginia.
THOMPSON, RICHARD (ca. 1680-1775). BORN
ca. 1680, in Cecil County; eldest son. NATIVE:
second generation. RESIDED: on tract "3 Bohemia
Sisters," North Sassafras Parish, Cecil County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: John Thompson ( ? -
ca. 1701/2). STEPFATHER: Maj. John Dowdall (?-
1728). MOTHER: Judith Herman. UNCLE: Casparus
Augustine Herman (1656-1697). AUNT: Anna
Margretta Herman, who married first, Henry Ward
(?-ca. 1683/84), and second, Matthias Vander-
heyden (?-1729). BROTHERS. John (?-1718); Au-
gustineThompson(1691-1738/39); Ephraim(1691-
1697); and Robert (1699-1737/38). SISTER: Jane
(?-1762). FIRST COUSINS: Ephraim A ugustine Her-
man (1683-1734/35); Henry Ward (?-1734); Jo-
seph Wood (?-1738); Augustina Vanderheyden,
who married James Harris (1682-1743); Ariana
Vanderheyden (1690-1741), who married first,
James Frisby (1684-1719), second, Thomas Bordley
(ca. 1683-1726), and third, Edmund Jennings (?-
1756); Francina Vanderheyden, who married sec-
ond, Charles Hynson (1692-1748); Augustina
Herman, who married first, Thomas Frisby (1681 -
ca. 1715/16), and second, Roger Larramore (?-
1721). MARRIED first, on April 18, 1706, Magdalen
(Magdaline) Bouchell (Bouchelle). MARRIED sec-
ond, ca. 1736, Tabitha Chick. CHILDREN. SONS:
John (1710/11-1749), of Cecil County, who mar-
ried first, in 1734, Mary, a seamstress, the daugh-
ter of Rene Julian, of Cecil County; John married
second, in 1748, Jane Houston. Richard (1713-
1789), a yeoman of Cecil County, who married
first, in 1739, Mary, daughter of Abraham Al-
man, and second, Sarah. Robert (1721-
1785), a farmer of Cecil County, who married
Mary. Ephraim (1724-?), a farmer of Cecil
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County, who married Ann. DAUGHTERS: Judith
(1707-?), who married in 1722 Arnold Bassett;
Margaret (1715-?), who married Isaac Ham; Mary
(1726-?), who married Epsom Bird; Sarah, who
married (first name unknown) Young; Tabitha
Bryan, alias Nevel; Susanna, who married (first
name unknown) Scott; and Ann, who married
Thomas Ham. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: lit-
erate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican, St. Ste-
phen's Church, North Sassafras Parish. Cecil
County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES. Mr., by
1716; Gent., by 1723; Esq., by 1750. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Cecil County, 1749
(election of county delegation voided on June 6,
1749, when the Lower House judged that the
election was not free). LOCAL OFFICES: North Sas-
safras Parish Vestry, Cecil County, elected 1726,
1728, 1729; justice, Cecil County, 1720-1751
(quorum, 1733-1751); justice, Court of Oyer,
Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, Cecil County, ap-
pointed 1749, 1750, and 1752; coroner, Cecil
County, in office 1715-1717, 1719, 1721, 1723,
1726-1727, and 1740; ranger, Cecil County, ap-
pointed April 25, 1735. MILITARY SERVICE, cap-
tain by 1723. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 1,567 acres in Cecil County (in-
herited 1,367 acres and administered 200 acres
for his nephew). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: deeded 904
acres to sons between 1761 and 1772. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: between April 17 and November
23, 1775, in New Castle County, Delaware. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY: size of estate unknown. LAND.
463 acres in Cecil County.
THORNBOROUGH (THORNBURY), THOMAS
(ca. 1604-?). BORN. ca. 1604. IMMIGRATED, by
1647, as a free adult from Virginia. RESIDED: in
St. Mary's County; returned permanently to Vir-
ginia in 1651. CHILDREN. SON: probably Thomas
(?-ca. 1703), who married Catherine. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. SOCIAL STATUS AND
ACTIVITIES: settled in Virginia by 1616; lived in
the Elizabeth City area in the 1620s and 1630s;
Gent., by 1647; patented 700 acres in Northum-
berland County, Virginia, in 1651. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Assembly, present 1647/48, St.
Mary's County, 1649. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE
ISSUES: opposed the proprietary government dur-
ing the mid-1640s; in 1647/48 Leonard Calvert
pardoned Thornborough and confirmed to him
any property held in Maryland.
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