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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises


    John Thompson

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    • 8th Great-grandfather of Ernest Hemingway — 11th Generation
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    • BY Feb 1656 
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    • John Thompson (Ahnentafel No:524 )

      Mary Thompson

      Joseph Thompson

      Abigail Thompson

      Rebecca Thompson

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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).

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  • Sources for John Thompson

    • 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.