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Notes for William THOMPSON
Catherine Ross, born 1739; died Dec. 1809.; married March 29, 1762, Captain, afterward General, William Thompson of Carlisle, PA. He was born in Ireland and came to America about 1750.
William Thompson served as an officer in the Colonial wars, French and Indian, was a member of the Colonial Assembly, and was commisioned by Congress Colonel of Thompson's battalion of riflemen in 1775. Promoted by Congress to be Brigadier General March 1, 1776 and ordered to New York where he was in command for a short time. In April 1776 he was ordered to join the expedition to Canada. In the battle of Three Rivers near Quebec on June 8, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British and was not exchanged until October 1780. [Duncan Veazey noted that his own great grandfather Captain Matthew Duncan of Philadelphia joined this expedition to Canada as a "gentleman volunteer" and was captured near Quebec.]
General Thompson died Sep. 3, 1781 at his plantation near Carlisle aged 45 years. This appears to be a short time in which to have made so great a record but the dates have all been carefully verified by Mr. Edmund Hayes Bell of Philadelphia.
General Thompson was a nephew of the Reverend Samuel Thomson, a Presbyterian Minister of Conococheague, Pennsylvania and a first cousin of Rev. William Thomson who married Susanna, daughter of Rev. George Ross.
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