James Thompson papers

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James Thompson papers

1808-1841 (majority 1841)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1405

Group of six handwritten business letters to and from James Thompson of Pennsylvania from correspondents in Baltimore and Havre de Grace. One of the letters, written to James Thompson by Magrew and Virdin, gives details of the damage to the Tide Water Canal and of the accidental drowning of its superintendent William Boyd.

6 items

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6326264

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Thompson, Samuel C., 1943-

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Samuel Thompson may be the same who founded the "Freethinking Christians." From the description of Numeration or notation : mss, 1773 Dec. 28. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 50435068 English resident; perhaps the founder of the "Freethinking Christians." From the description of Arithmetic book, 1774-1777. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38991278 Samuel Thompson became a linesman with the Electric Telegraph Servic...

Thompson, James, 1782-1847.

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James Thompson was born on February 2, 1782, in Thompsontown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Thompson, who settled and laid out Thompsontown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and Jane (Mitchell) Thompson. Thompson moved to New Mexico, Pennsylvania, in 1810 after his father completed building a stone gristmill there. He married Martha Allen on April 2, 1810. They had three sons, Charles A. (1811-1852), Allen A. (1814-1844), and Jerome (b. 1817). Thompson opened a store in New Mexico, Pennsy...

Thompson, Samuel

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