Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Joseph Thompson
1733 - 1795 (61 years)-
Name Joseph Thompson [1] Birth 25 Mar 1733 Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts [1] Gender Male Death 1795 Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio [2] Burial Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio [2] Person ID I27821 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP Last Modified 10 Apr 2020
Father James Thompson Mother Mary Family ID F16604 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Abigail Sherman, b. 29 Nov 1732, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Marriage 19 Feb 1754 Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts [1] Children + 1. Amherst Thompson, b. 20 May 1762, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 21 May 1857 (Age 95 years) Family ID F16599 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Apr 2020
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Notes - According to a DAR lineage book, he "commanded a company of minute men on the Lexington Alarm and in 1779 was made lieutenant colonel of the 10th Massachusetts regiment. He was born in Brimfield, Mass.; died in Marietta, Ohio."
According to his son's 1832 testimony, Joseph Thompson was a major in "Col. Nixon's Regiment", was then transferred to Col. Thomas Marshall's regiment at West Point, and was captured by the enemy in an engagement at Tarrytown.
- According to a DAR lineage book, he "commanded a company of minute men on the Lexington Alarm and in 1779 was made lieutenant colonel of the 10th Massachusetts regiment. He was born in Brimfield, Mass.; died in Marietta, Ohio."
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Sources - [S3961] Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts To the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1931.
- [S3928] Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in Coshocton County, Ohio.
- [S3961] Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts To the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1931.