Dorothy Tompson

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• Baptised: 5 Jul 1624, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 5 Sep 1707
• Alternate death: Aft 1709

Dorothy married Thomas Parke before 28 Oct 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Robert Parke and Martha Chaplin) was born in in of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 30 Jul 1709 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Greenfield Larribee on 16 Mar 1673. Greenfield (son of Greenfield Larribee and Phebe Browne) was born on 20 Apr 1648 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 4 Feb 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Rachel Leffingwell on 24 Nov 1681. Rachel (daughter of Lt. Thomas Leffingwell and Mary) was born on 17 Mar 1648. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said to have been born at New London 6 Mar 1652, but no record has been found. She is mentioned as a beneficiary in her father's will of 5 Sep 1707.

Dorothy married Lt. Joseph Morgan on 26 Apr 1670 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of James Morgan and Margery Hill) was born on 29 Oct 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 5 Apr 1704 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phebe married John Benjamin on 7 Aug 1705 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. John (son of Joseph Benjamin and Sarah) was born about 1682 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Aug 1716 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 22 Mar 1681, Preston, New London, Connecticut

Martha married Deacon Joseph Perkins on 22 May 1700 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Deacon (son of Jacob Perkins and Elizabeth) was born on 21 Jun 1674 in of Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 6 Sep 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Samuel Loomer on 22 May 1718. Samuel (son of Stephen Loomer and Mary Miller) was born in 1692 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 9 Dec 1786 in Bozrah, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptised: 6 Jan 1715, First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut

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He was a cordwainer and a farmer.

John married Margaret Jameson on 3 Jan 1740 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Margaret (daughter of John Jameson and Abigail Carter) was born on 21 Jun 1716 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 13 Oct 1769 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1 Aug 1713, Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Matthew married Hannah Bishop on 19 Apr 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Bishop and Sarah Fobes) was born on 2 Aug 1722 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Hannah Chapman on 11 Oct 1749 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Jonathan Chapman and Hannah Bailey) was born on 11 Oct 1725 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; died on 27 Jun 1778 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Upper Pereaux, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptised: 11 Mar 1752, First Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut

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Said to have served in General Waterbury's brigade of the Connecticut militia during the Revolution, and to have been killed "near Horse's Neck, Connecticut" (West Greenwich).

John married Grace Waite on 29 Jun 1775 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. Grace (daughter of Thomas Waite and Bridget) was born on 4 Jun 1756 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Sufanna ye Daughter of Matthew Perkins & his wife Hannah was born January 29: 1752." [Norwich Vital Records, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Rev. John Staples. John (son of Deacon Seth Staples and Hannah Standish) was born on 23 Apr 1742; died on 15 Feb 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 16 Jun 1752, Bozrah, New London, Connecticut

Jonathan married Mary Sanford on 8 Feb 1776. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Sanford and Amelia Bentley) was born on 1 Feb 1756 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 30 Nov 1826 in Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia; was buried in Upper Pereaux, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 25 Dec 1775, Preston, New London, Connecticut
• Alternate death: 29 Jun 1841, Greene, New York

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Also called Augustus Rufus Benjamin.

Rufus married Catharina Groat in 1796 in Windham, Greene, New York. Catharina (daughter of John Groat and Sara Bowman) was born on 9 Aug 1779 in Claverack, Columbia, New York; died after 20 Jun 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lawyer and politician. He was a representative of the town of New Haven in the State Legislature for seven or eight sessions, most of them during the war of 1812. The institution that eventually became Yale Law School began with him training legal apprentices in his law office in New Haven in the first decade of the 19th century.

"After completing his studies at Yale [Seth Perkins Staples] began the study of the law in the office of the Hon. David Daggett in New Haven, Connecticut for two years. During this time Seth hand-copied a set of Tapping Reeve's law notes for his own use, but never attended the Litchfield Law School as a student (a common misconception). Once his understanding of the law was adequate. Seth passed the bar in Litchfield in 1799, and then immediately opened a law office of his own in New Haven and commenced practice. In that same year he married Catharine Wales Staples. During their marriage the couple had six children; three sons and three daughters, one daughter of which later attended the Litchfield Female Academy. The future Yale Law School formed in the New Haven law office of Seth P. Staples. Staples owned an exceptional library (an attraction for students at a time when law books were scarce), and he began training apprentices in the early 1800s. By the 1810s his law office had a full-fledged law school. Samuel Hitchcock, one of Staples' former students, became a partner at the office and later, the proprietor of the New Haven Law School." [Litchfield Historical Society]

"The [New Haven Law] School began in the New Haven law office of Seth P. Staples in the 1800s, who began training lawyers. By 1810 he was operating a law school. He took on a former student, Samuel J. Hitchcock, as a law partner, and Hitchcock became the proprietor of the New Haven Law School, joined by David Daggett in 1824. (The Yale Law School shield, shown at the upper right of this page, shows staples and a rampant dog, representing Seth Staples and David Daggett.) The school's affiliation with Yale began in the mid-1820s and in 1843, the school's students began receiving Yale degrees." [Wikipedia article on Yale Law School]

Susanna married Roger Sherman on 7 Jan 1801 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Roger (son of Roger Sherman and Rebecca Prescott) was born on 16 Jul 1768 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 5 Mar 1856 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Deborah Strong on 10 Jan 1809 in Nova Scotia. Deborah (daughter of Abel Strong and Sarah Eaton) was born on 11 Mar 1791 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 13 Sep 1870 in Walworth County, Wisconsin; was buried in Millard Cemetery, Millard, Walworth, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married secondly, 9 Nov 1850, James Van Steenberg.

Family/Spouse: Philip Howard. Philip was born on 27 Mar 1801; died on 7 Oct 1871; was buried in Woodstock Cemetery, Woodstock, Ulster, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nordhoff, California was renamed Ojai during World War I.

Elizabeth married Thomas Anthony Thacher on 1 Aug 1860 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Thomas (son of Peter Thacher and Ann Parks) was born on 11 Jan 1815 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 7 Apr 1886 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Hiram King. Edmund was born on 5 Aug 1819 in Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont; died on 14 Apr 1901 in Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He came to Kingston, NY in 1887, and was a turner in the W. P. Crane mills in Rondout.

Family/Spouse: Catherine Devall. Catherine was born in 1848; died in 1918; was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From www.ywcasf-marin.org/marin-womens-hall-fame/honorees/elizabeth-thacher-kent:

Elizabeth Thacher Kent, a matriarch in the founding family of Kentfield, is one of the few Marin County women to be elected posthumously to the Marin Women's Hall of Fame. Kent was a distinguished proponent of women's rights and international peace and was instrumental in securing women's right to vote.

Kent took up permanent residence in Marin in 1907 and immediately became a vocal activist in support of women's' suffrage. When her husband, William, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Kent leveraged her position as a Congressman's wife to support the national suffrage movement. She was a featured speaker at the 1913 and 1914 conventions of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and shortly thereafter assumed leadership of their Congressional Committee. By 1915, she helped form the Congressional Union (later re-named the Women's Party), which picketed the White House in support of suffrage. Kent was arrested twice for her suffrage demonstrating. However, her cause prevailed and in August 1920 the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed guaranteeing American women the right to vote.

In addition to supporting suffrage, Elizabeth Kent was committed to the cause of world peace. In the 1930's, she provided leadership to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She and her husband were also early supporters of the fledging conservation movement. They donated a large tract of land to the U.S. Government to preserve old-growth redwoods. Their gift, the Muir Woods National Monument, provides a lasting testimony to the Kents' exemplary lives of public service.

Elizabeth married Rep. William Kent on 26 Feb 1890 in Nordhoff, California. Rep. (son of Albert Emmet Kent and Adaline Elizabeth Dutton) was born on 29 Mar 1864 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 13 Mar 1928 in Kentfield, Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia:

Franklin Hiram King was an American agricultural scientist who was born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, attended country schools, and received his professional training first at Whitewater State Normal School, graduating in 1872, and then at Cornell University. King is now best remembered for his first-hand account of traditional agricultural practices in Asia, now regarded as an organic farming classic text.

Franklin married Carrie Hunter Baker in 1874. Carrie (daughter of Hiram Thomas Baker and Mary Asenath Hunter) was born on 6 May 1857 in Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin; died on 22 May 1957 in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]