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He married Anne Vicars, August 4, 1656.
(See Vicars.) Children: i. John, born
May 12, 1657; married Rebecca Daniel.
2. Anne, married, in 1688, Caleb Chidsey.
3. Joseph, born April 4, 1664. 4. Child,
born in September, 1667, died in infancy.
5. Samuel, of whom further. 6. Sarah,
born January 16, 1672 ; married John Mix.
7. William, born January 17, 1674. 8.
Mary, born May 16, 1675.
(III) Captain Samuel Thompson, son
of John and Anne (Vicars) Thompson,
was born in New Haven, Connecticut,
May 12, 1669, and died March 26, 1749,
being- buried at Goshen, Connecticut. He
lived in Westville, Connecticut, for a time,
removing from there to Goshen, Connecticut.
He was made captain of a company
of soldiers. He married, November 14,
1695, Rebecca Bishop, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor
James and Elizabeth
(Tompkins) Bishop. She was born in
New Haven, December 10, 1673, and died
there April 5, 1734. Children: i. Samuel,
born December 2, 1696; married Esther
Ailing. 2. James, of whom further. 3.
Amos, born May 3, 1702; married Sarah
Ailing. 4. Gideon, born December 25,
1704; married Lydia Punderson. 5. Rebecca,
born February 23, 1708; married
David Austin. 6. Judah, born June 10,
171 1, died August i, 1712. 7. Judah, born
October 5, 1713. 8. Enos, born August
18, 1717; married Sarah Hitchcock.
(IV) James Thompson, son of Captain
Samuel and Rebecca (Bishop) Thompson,
was born January 5, 1699, and died in
1737. He lived in Westville, Connecti-
cut. His will was proved December 5,
1737. He married. May 30, 1723, Harriet
Wilmot, daughter of Benjamin and Mary
(Beecher) Wilmot. Children: i. Mary,
born February 16, 1724; married Jonah
Baldwin. 2. James, born November 21,
1725, died in 1818. 3. Hannah, born about
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1727; unmarried in 1754. 4. Mabel, bap-
tized October 5, 1729 ; married Griffin
Bradley. 5. Amy, of whom further. 6.
Hezekiah, born about 1735 ;
married Rebecca
Judson. 7. Rachel, baptized October
2, 1737; probably died young.
(V) Amy Thompson, daughter of
James and Harriet (Wilmot) Thompson,
was baptized April 2, 1732. She married
(Woodbridge Church Record), November
7, 1751, Ariel Bradley (see Bradley V).
In 1753 Ariel Bradley and his wife deeded
land from the estate of "our father, James
Thompson, deceased."
(The Vicars Line).
Arms—Sable, on a chief dancette or, two cin-
quefoils gules, a border engrailed ermine.
Vicary, Vicery, Vicarey, Vicars, Vicors,
Vicaris, Vicaridge, Vickerage, Vickeridge
are forms of one name and, with many
others of the same origin but of various
spellings, mean of the vicarage, or office
of the vicar, or at the vicars. They are
official or sometimes local names and are
found very early in England. Peter atte
Vicars in 1379 was of County York ; in
1574 Stephen Vyccarye married Margaret
Johnson in London; in 1585 John Vicary,
of County Devon, was registered at Oxford
College; in 1574 John Vicarish married
Margery Gerard ; in 1665 John Hal-
ton married Alice Vicaridge at Canter-
bury; in 1614 Margaret Vicares married
William Collins in London ;
Joan
Vic-
caries married John Wells at London in
1617.
In the "Visitation of Worcester" in
1634 were the families of Robert Vicaris,
of Astley, and Robert Vickers, of Bewdley.
Descendants of these families were
found in Astley and Bewdley in 1682,
when the second visitation of that county
was made. John Vicaridge, of "Natton,"
married, in 1603, Mary Sheldon, daughter