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Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Hellen THOMPSON Birth: 1626
  2. Samuel THOMPSON Birth: 1631
  3. Eleazar THOMPSON Birth: 1635 in Winwick, Lancashire
  4. Joseph THOMPSON Birth: 1 May 1640 in Braintree, Massachusetts
  5. Benjamin THOMPSON Birth: 14 Jul 1642 in Braintree, Massachusetts

Marriage:
  • Anne BRIGHAM on 1645 .m2
  • Anne BRIGHAM Birth: Abt 1606 in Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England Death: 11 Oct 1675 in Braintree, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Anna THOMPSON Birth: 1 Jun 1648

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F Sanborn Jr, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. M-LH 929.174And. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-i-a-b/image, ..volume-ii-c-f, iii-g-h, iv-i-l, v-m-p, vi-r-s, vii-t-y. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v[1-7]p[0-9]*].
  2. Brigham, Emma Elisabeth, The History of the Brigham Family. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co, 1927. UMI #G3444. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofbrigham01brig and http://archive.org/details/historyofbrigham02inbrig Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p[0-9]*].
  3. Coffman, Ralph J, Testament of Richard Mather and William Thompson, NEHGR vol 140 (Jan 1986), pp3-15. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Coffman Testament p[0-9]*].
  4. Crosby, Albert Hutchings, John Crosby of Yorkshire and some of his descendants. Hartford, CT: author, 1940. G3434. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005730144. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CrosbyAH CROSBY p[0-9]].
  5. Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, Concord, NH: Rumsford Press, 1938. NEHGS CS71/P643/1938. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/29865. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p[0-9]*].

Sources with Information about marriage to Abigail SKELLECORNE
date:
first marriage of William [Ref: Coffman Testament p13],
names:
William THOMPSON & ___ SKELLECORNE [Ref: Coffman Testament p13],
child:
[Ref: Coffman Testament p14]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anne BRIGHAM
date:
[Ref: BrighamEE BRIGHAM p25, CrosbyAH CROSBY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p401]
before 1646, as second marriage of William [Ref: Coffman Testament p14]
by 1645 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationII v2p235],
names:
William THOMPSON & Anna ___ widow of Simon CROSBY [Ref: Coffman Testament p14],
child:
[Ref: Coffman Testament p14]
Research Notes:
Rev. [Ref: CrosbyAH CROSBY p9]

college of Richard Mather; attended Brasenose College, Oxford, together [Ref: Coffman Testament p3]

Aug 30 1637: in Cambridge, MA; attended the ecclesiastical synod which condemned the Antinomians [Ref: Coffman Testament p3]

between Sep 1637 and Mar 1638: left for Agamenticus (York), Maine [Ref: Coffman Testament p3]

Sep 24 1639: installed as pastor in Braintree [Ref: Coffman Testament p11]

of Braintree [Ref: CrosbyAH CROSBY p9]

Nov 19 1639: ordained [Ref: Coffman Testament p11]

1648: given a place on honor as an elder at the synod which framed the Cambridge Platform [Ref: Coffman Testament p12]

1658: too incapacitated mentally to serve [Ref: Coffman Testament p12]

1661: second wife was quarreling with the Braintree elders about his maintenance [Ref: Coffman Testament p12]



Pedigree of William Rev THOMPSON
William Rev THOMPSON



Descendants of William Rev THOMPSON
1. William Rev THOMPSON m1. Abigail SKELLECORNE m2. Anne BRIGHAM
m. Abigail SKELLECORNE
m. Anne BRIGHAM father: Thomas BRIGHAM mother: Isabel WATSON