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George S. Patton

U.S. Army - World War II

Philip Rootes Thompson

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of George S. Patton — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 46 
  • Father:
  • John Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Rootes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Mar 1766 
  • Birth Location:
  • near Fredricksburg, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Jul 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • Kanawha County, Virginia (now West Virginia) 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • College Hill Cemetery, St. Albans, Kanawha, West Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Davenport
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jun 1786 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Virginia 
  • Child:

  Eleanor Thompson (Ahnentafel No:23 )

  • Notes: 

  • Member of U.S. Congress from Virginia, 1801-1807.

• Additional marriages for Philip Rootes Thompson

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah "Sally" Slaughter

• Sources for Philip Rootes Thompson

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/23/2013).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 27.
  • ³ The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Virginia Historical Society, APR 1914, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 208.
  • ⁴ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, Marriage record for Philip Rotes Thompson and Ann Davenport.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #88982, Membership application for William Allen Weison.
  • ⁶ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 7th Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2000), 249.
  • ⁷ Green, Raleigh Travers, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition . . ., Culpepper, Virginia: Exponent Printing Office (1900), 80.
  • ⁸ Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E. B. Yordy, Printer (1891), 14.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Philip R. Thompson", (accessed 09/23/2013).