John S. Thompson b. 1815 NY. Lived in Wyoming Co., NY
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Source: HISTORY OF WYOMING CO., NY
BY: F. W. BEERS, 1880
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JOHN S. THOMPSON, son of John G. and Mary Thompson, was born in Onondaga, Onondaga Co.,NY, in 1815, and came with his parents to Perry, Wyoming Co., NY, in 1817. He is a farmer and the owner of nearly five hundred acres of land. He was married in 1839 to HANNAH HOWARD, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Martha Hoard, of Covington, NY. For nine years he served as justice of the peace. Captain John S. Thompson was born in Cherry Valle, N.Y., in 1790, and married Miss Mary A. Turner about 1810 or 1811, by whom he had seven children, five of whom are living. In the spring of 1817 he brought his family and some necessary portable property from Onondaga Co., NY to Pavilion, NY by means of an ox team and a wagon. Unable to get the wagon to Perry, he conveyed his effects to the latter place by means of the oft-described "drag" of pioneer days. He has previously purchased one hundred and fifty acres and made a small clearing. Here he rolled up a rude log cabin, floorless and roofed with elm bark, and the famiy were soon housekeeping. In the fall he laid a floor of basswood slabs. Captain Thompson and wife were members of the Baptist church at La Grange, NY from its organization to their deaths, which occurred in 1834 and 1864 respectively, the former living to be forty-four and the latter seventy-three.
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I have no further information on this family. The source of where this information was obtained is listed at the top of this posting.
Denise Perkins Ready
(Transcriber)