Ancestry of Sir
Benjamin Thompson

Physicist and Inventor, aka Count Rumford

Jonathan Thompson

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• • Great-grandfather of Benjamin Thompson — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Blodgett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Sep 1663 
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  • ABT 1748 
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  • Frances Whitmore
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  Ebenezer Thompson (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Jabez Thompson

• Sources for Jonathan Thompson

  • ¹ 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.
  • ² Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a Genealogical Register, Cambridge: The Riverside Press (1877), 685.
  • ³ 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), 20, 22-23.