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ordained November n, of thai year.
He gave up the ministry in [659, •i"d died
December 10, 1660. He brought to Amer-
ica with him his wife, Abigail, two sons
and two daughters. Their other children
were burn in America
(Mi Samuel Thompson, eldest son of
Rev. William Thompson, was born in
England. He settled at Braintree, where
he was representative for nine \ ears. On
April 25, [656, he married Sarah Shepard.
horn in England, daughter of Edward and
Violet Shepard. who had also emigrated
to America, and at that time resided in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(III) Edward Thompson, third son of
Samuel Thompson, graduated from Har-
vard College in [684, aged nineteen lie
resided in Xewhury ami taught school
for several years, before and after leaving
college. He began to preach in Simshury,
Connecticut, in June. 1687. and in 1691
removed to the "west end'' of Xewhury,
Massachusetts. He died March 16, 1705,
in Marshfield, Massachusetts. He mar-
ried Sarah Webster, born July 31, 1659,
daughter of John and Ann (Batt) Webster,
of Xewhury.
(IV) Samuel (2) Thompson, eldest
child of Edward Thompson, was born
September 1, 1691, in Xewhury, was grad-
uated from Harvard in 1710, and ordained
at Gloucester, Massachusetts, November
28, 171(1. He died December 9, 1724. He
married Hannah Norwood, who was born
in [694, and died June 13, 1769.
(V) Edward (2) Thompson, son of
Samuel (2) Thompson, was born April
27, 1722, in Gloucester, and died June 16,
1806. He came to Simshury in 1793 with
his mother, his brother Samuel, and sisters.
Mary, Martha and Sarah. He was
baptized in 1742, and died in 1830.
(VI ) Edmund Thompson, son of Edward
(2) Thompson, was born March 9,
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in Simsbury, and baptized \pn!
170;, by Re\ Roger Viets He married,
May 8, [782, at l
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Simsbury, January 27, [788, and died
April 21, [861. In earl} life he learned
the trade 1 ; > making in Simsbu
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then fallowed it also in what is now I
Granby. He was a skilled and conscien-
tious workman Later he was extensively
engaged in farming, and acquired large
tracts of land He was a I )e niocrat in pol-
itics, and was highly commended by his
istituents when he represented the
town of Granby in the St islature.
He was held in the highest respect by a
large circle of friends, who had every con-
fidence in his probity. On September 11,
1809. he married Sophia Pinney, of the
section now known as East Granby, a
daughter of Aaron Pinney. Moth were
earnest members of the Baptist church.
Mr. Thompson died April 21, 1861. and his
wife died I
December
6, 1863. They are
buried in the East Granby Cemetery.
The ancestors of Sophia (Pinney)
Thompson had down through early Xew
England days, the founder of the family
coming from England in the "Mary and
John," in 1630. He settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, and was one of the origi-
nal members of the Dorchester Church.
He came to Connecticut and settled in
Windsor, in 1035: he died August 21,
$3 Ili^ second son. Nathan, was born
in December. 1641. was baptized in Wind-
sor, in January. [642, and died in 1676.
He married Sarah, widow of Samuel
Phelps, and daughter of Edward and
Mary Griswold, pioneers i'i Windsor,
born in 1038, in England. Their only re-
corded son, Lieutenant Nathaniel Pinney,
was born May II, 1671, in Windsor, that
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