Ancestry of Sir
Benjamin Thompson

Physicist and Inventor, aka Count Rumford

Jonathan Thompson

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Benjamin Thompson — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • James Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1628 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Oct 1691 
  • Death Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Blodgett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Nov 1655 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Susanna Thompson

  Jonathan Thompson (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Sarah Thompson

  • Notes: 

  • Jonathan Thompson's surname is also seen as Thomson.

• Sources for Jonathan Thompson

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 73.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1811.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 585.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 92.
  • ⁵ Thompson, Rev. Leander, Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn, Mass., 1642-1682; and Eight Generations . . ., Boston: Press of L. Barta and Co. (1887), 17, 19-20.
  • ⁶ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 25.