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Rev. John Thomson Source Documents

Secondary Sources

Herndon, John G., "Some of the Descendants of the Reverend John Thomson (c. 1690-1753)," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LI (1943): 394-404; in Genealogies of Virginia Families (5 vol. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1981) 5:454-464.

Herndon, John G., John Thomson, Presbyterian Constitutionalist Minister of the Word of God, Educational Leader and Church Builder, (Lancaster, PA: privately printed, copy #94, NC State Library), 1-76.

Herndon, John G., Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, 21 (1943), 46-49. location of graveyard

Klett, Guy S., Presbyterians in Colonial Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, Univ. of Penn. Press, 1937), 70, 136, 141, 158, 211, 212.

Klett, Guy S., ed. Minutes of the Presbyterian Church in America, 1706-1788, (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Historical Society, 1976), 24, 158, 160, 237.

Nevin, Alfred, ed., Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in America, (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publishing Co., 1888), 938.

McElwain, Madison E., Faith and Works at Middle Octorara Since 1727, 18-29. has Thomson's signature

Ramsey, Robert W., Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press), 55, 105, 124, 186-189.

Reverend John Thomson, handwritten notes from the Genealogical Society of Iredell Co., NC, 8 pages.

Rumple, Rev. Jethro, A History of Rowan County, North Carolina, (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1978), 114, 122, 262.

Sommerville, Charles William, The History of Hopewell Presbyterian Church for 175 years from the assigned date of its organization, (Charlotte, NC: Observer Printing House, 1939), 314-317.

"The Reverend John Thomson," Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, XXI (1943): 50-58. gives some genealogy

Wilson, Howard McKnight, The Lexington Presbytery Heritage, (McClure Press), 21, 40-43, 312, 380.

Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1628-1776, (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1957), 193, 201, 219, 328. lists Caldwell, Craighead, Finley, Thomson.

Deeds and Court Records

25 March 1752, Granville Grant to Rev. John Thompson of Anson Co., NC for 640 acres in Anson Co. (later Rowan) on south side of south Fork of 5th Creek above the mouth. To be cleared and cultivated within 3 years. James James, Francis Corbin, Esqrs. Recorded 3 March 1791, James Haywood, John Dunn. Iredell Co., NC DB A:330. Note: In 1754 and 1755, Roger and wife Hannah and Samuel Baker and wife Elizabeth sell this property (Rowan County Book 2:18, 64 and Book 3:492).

 

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