THOMPSON FAMILY GENEALOGY
John
Thompson, son of John Thompson and Mary Wilson, came to Pennsylvania's
Cumberland Valley sometime around 1740 as did his two brothers, William and
Thomas (Thomas was the gg-grandfather of Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, author of
the prolific
JV Thompson Journals
in which a number of PA ancestries have been recorded). John
settled on the Green Spring, about three miles west of Newville, and was a
member of Big Spring Presbyterian Church. Friends and neighbors included the
Bleans and Scroggs, all of whom intermarried for some time. Descendants left
briefly in the 1830s for western Illinois, but returned in a few years to the
Newville area. They left for good in 1876 when they homesteaded land in
Nebraska. A more detailed summary of this is given in
Our Cumberland County Roots
. In addition to the Thompsons, our
Cumberland County ancestors include the Bleans, Laughlins, Scroggs, Connellys,
Craigs, and Carothers.
In addition to the Cumberland County connection, we also have two other lines
fairly well researched; the Snavelys and the Baldwins. Our Snavelys began with
one John Snavely, a War of 1812 veteran whose pedigree is currently unknown,
while the Baldwin connection goes back to early England through Richard Baldwin
who came to New England in 1638.
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