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Tom Thumb

Dwarf Circus Performer

Joseph Thompson

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Tom Thumb — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Mar 1703 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jul 1745 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Congregational Graveyard, West Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 May 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Jeduthan Thompson (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Sources for Joseph Thompson

  • ¹ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 7, pp. 1622, 1753.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 249.
  • ³ Holt, Nellie Beardsley and Charles Eleazer Holt, Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut: n. p. (1951), 28.