Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

John Thompson

View famous kin of John Thompson

• • 8th Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 11th Generation
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  • BY Feb 1656 
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  John Thompson

  Mary Thompson

  Joseph Thompson

  Abigail Thompson

  Rebecca Thompson (Ahnentafel No:651 )

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  • Due to there being 3 distinct families led by a John Thompson, these families tend to get confused. Donald Lines Jacobus sorted these families out in an article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912, Vol. 66, pp. 197-209).

• Sources for John Thompson

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1912, Vol. 66, pp. 197-198.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 6, p. 1420.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 7, pp. 1728, 1750.
  • ⁴ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 5, p. 1183.
  • ⁵ New Haven, CT: Vital Records, 1649-1850, Vol. 1, p. 7, Birth record for daughters Abigail and Rebecca Thompson (twins).
  • ⁶ The Connecticut Magazine: Devoted to Connecticut in its Various Phases of History, Literature . . ., Vol. 11, Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut: The Connecticut Magazine Co. (1907), 650.
  • ⁷ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 741.
  • ⁸ Miller, Francis Trevelyan, ed., The Connecticut Magazine, Vol. IX, Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Magazine Company (1905), 196.

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