The eldest son may be:
.  Hiram THOMPSON, b. 1792/3, TN 

1.  Marriage Record:

2.  Anon.  1990.  Logan County, Kentucky, Taxpayers, 1792-1799.  T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL.  Peter Thompson not found.

3.  Anon.  1991.  The 1795 Census of Kentucky [as constructed from tax lists].  T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL.  Peter Thompson not found.

4.  1810 Census (as extracted by A. Robert Matthiesen; see 1810 Table): 

1810

Peter Thompson

Christian Co., KY

p. 116

02101-32001-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
2 males	10-15	1794-1800	= Son B = Thomas (b. 1797)
1 male	16-25	1784-1794	= Son A (b. 1791/2)
1 male	45 or over	in or bef. 1765	= Peter
3 females	9 or under	1800-1810	= Daughter D = Daughter C = Rachel (b. 1803)
2 females	10-15	1794-1800	= Daughter B = Daughter A
1 female	45 or over	in or bef. 1765	= Wife

5.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1820 (Broderbund CD-314):  not found, but so were a lot of other people who should have been here.  Peter is on the Todd Co. tax rolls.

6a.  Christian County, Kentucky, Tax Rolls, 1797-1816.  Heritage Quest, Microfilm No. V20-72 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Year	District	Dates of  Receiving Lists	Persons Names  Chargeable with the Tax	A	B	C	D	E	F	Acres			Watercourse	In Whose Name Entered	In Whose Name Surveyed	In Whose Name Patented
										1st	2nd	3rd
1799	No. 2	July 4th	Thompson Peter	1				5
1800		May 5	Thompson Peter	1				5				150	Red R	P Thompson	Same
1801	South	Mar 23	Thompson Peter	1				6			123	150	W F R River W F R River	E Clark P Thompson	Same Same
1802		Aug 12	Thompson Peter	1				7			200	170 175  29	W F R R W F R R W F R R W F R R
1803		Aug 29	Thompson Peter	1				7			200	148 150	W F R R W F R R W F R R	T. Reddecks P. Thompson P. Thompson	Same Same Same	Same
1804	South	Aug 30	Thompson Peter	1				4				200 123  25 150	W F R R same same same	P Thompson P Thompson P Thompson E Clark	same same same same
1805	South	Ap 22	Thompson Peter	1				6			200	123  25	W F R River same same	T Reddic P Thompson same	same same same	same
1806	South	Apl 16	Peter Thompson	1				6			200	123  ?	W F R R same Same	Ths Reddec P Thompson P Thompson	same same same	same same same
1807	East	Oct 28	Thompson Peter	1				7			200	123  25	W F R R same same	T Reddick P Thompson P Thompson	same same same
1808	No. 1	Oct 22	Thompson Peter	1	1			6			200	150	W F R River same	Thos Redick P Thompson	same same
1809	No. 1	Aug 25	Thompson Peter	1				7			200 123  25		West Fork R R same same	T Reddick P Thompson P Thompson	same same same	same same same
1810			Thompson Peter	1				6			200 123  25		W F Red River Same Same	Thos Reddick	Same P Thompson	Same Same P Thompson
1811			Thompson Peter	1				7			200	123  25	W fork Same			Jno Redic P Thomson Same
1812			Thompson Peter	1				6			200	123	W fork Same	Thos Redick	Same	Same
1813			Thompson Peter	1				6			200	123  25	W Fork same W Fork	T Reddick self same	same same same	same same same
1814		[unreadable]	Thompson Peter	1				5			200	123  25	West Fork West Fork West Fork	Reddick Thompson Thompson	Same Same Same	Same Same Same
1815		[unreadable]	Thompson Peter								200	123  25	West Fork West Fork West Fork	Reddick Thompson Thompson	Same Same Same	Same Same Same
1816		[unreadable]	Thompson Peter								200 123  25		W Fork " "	T Reddick " "	- Thompson Thompson
Legend for numerical data [grey indicates that particular datum was not taken that year]:  A = White Males 21 or over; B = White Males 16-20; C = Blacks over 16; D = Total Blacks; E = Horses & Mares (gelded male horses and female horses); F = Stud Horses (intact males); 1st/2nd/3rd refers to 1st Rate, 2nd Rate, or 3rd Rate land.  Abbreviations:  W F R R = West Fork Red River

"E Clark" is very likely "Ephraim Clark," brother of Col. Henry Clark, maternal grandfather of Delilah Davis, who married Peter's son, Thomas.

6b.  Todd County, Kentucky, Tax Rolls, 1820-39.  Heritage Quest, Microfilm No. V20-359 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen).  All of the films are difficult to read.  The 1820 records are almost entirely unreadable, and the 1827 records were partially unreadable.  So, absence from the table does not necessarily indicate absence from the county.

Year	Persons Names  Chargeable with the Tax	A	B	C	D	E	F	Acres			Watercourse	In Whose Name Entered	In Whose Name Surveyed	In Whose Name Patented
								1st	2nd	3rd
1820	[unreadable]
1821	Thompson Peter	1			4				300				T Reddick	P Thompson
1822	Thompson Peter	1			4				150 150		West fork West fork			T Reddick P Thompson
1823	Thompson Peter	1			4				300		West fork			Thos Reddick
1824	Thompson Peter	1			4				300		West fork			Tho Riddic
1825	[all names S-Z missing]
1826	Thompson Peter	1	1	1	3				160		W W F R R (sic)
1827	[not found, but film barely readable]
1828* 1829	Burrus, Nathaniel... same, agent for Peter Thompson								260 260		West fork RR same
1830	Buriss, Nathaniel... Same, as agent for Peter Thompson								260		Westfork	patented Thompson & Reddick
1831- 1832	[rolls missings]
1833	Burres, Nathaniel... Same, Agent for Peter Thompson								160		Westfork
1834	[not found]
1835	Burrey, Nathl... Same, as Agent for Peter Thompson								260		W Fork
1836	[roll missing]
1837	Burris Nathaniel... Same, as Agent for Peter Thompson								260		West fork
1838	Burrey, Nathaniel... Same, as agent for Peter Thompson								260		W fork
1839	B????, Nathaniel... Same, agt for Peter Thompson								260		W F
Legend for numerical data:  A = White Males 21 or over; B = Blacks over 16; C = Total Blacks; D = Horses, Mares, Mules, & Jennets (i.e., gelded male horses, gelded male mules, female horses, female mules); E = Stud Horses and Jacks (intact male horses and intact male mules); F = Town Lots; 1st/2nd/3rd refer to 1st Rate, 2nd Rate, or 3rd Rate land.

*1828 tax paid in 1829.  Next on the list, also with Nathaniel Burrus as his agent, is William Wyatt (Peter's son-in-law), who also paid both 1828 and 1829 taxes in 1829.

7a.  1840 Tax List - Todd County, Ky [link died] (extracted by Karen Combs):

Name	Land	County	Watercourse	Value
Burrus, Nathaniel... Same, agent for Thos Thompson	260	Todd	Westfork	2000

7b.  1845 Tax List - Todd County, Ky [link died] (extracted by Karen Combs):

Name	Land	County	Watercourse	Value
Burrus, Nattel... Same, Agt for Peter Thompson heirs	260	Todd	Westfork	2600

8.  Willard Rouse Jillson.  1925.  The Kentucky Land Grants. 2 vols.  Filson Club Publ., Louisville, KY (Broderbund CD-650, Land Records: Kentucky, 1774-1924):

Pg.	Survey Date	Grantee	County	Watercourse	Acres	Book	Pg.
The Kentucky Land Grants, Part 1, Chap. IV, Grants South of Green River, 1797-1866
421	5-23-1800	Thompson, Peter	Christian	W Fk Red R	123	3	80
The Kentucky Land Grants, Part 1, Chap. III, Old Kentucky Grants, 1793-1856
246	10-19-1802	Thompson, Peter	Christian	Sinking Cr	25	15	579

Sinking Creek is a tributary of the West Fork of the Red River.

9a.  Ila Earl Fowler.   Abstract of Deed Book A, Christian County, KY:

pp.  163- 164	Dec 14, 1805	Peter Thompson to Thomas Reddick $400; E. Sinking Fork of N Fork of Red River.	Witnesses:  J. Cravens, Young Ewing, Josiah Caits, and John Campbell
p. 187	Mar 5, 1804	Peter Thompson to Jesse Brooks and the Church of Christ for $6; for meeting house and burial ground; successors; William Wallyce's line; Military line of Peter Thompson, Buildings, etc.	Witnesses:  Josiah Fort, Jno. Riggs, Wm. Brooks, Jesse Brooks

She has buyer and seller reversed.

9b.  Christian County Deed Book A (courtesy of the Christian County Genealogical Society, Hopkinsville, KY):^A

p. 164	June 14, 1802	Thomas Reddick sold to Peter Thompson for $400.00, a parcel of land on East Sinking Fork of West Fork of Red River.	Signed: Thomas Reddick
p. 187	March 5, 1803	Peter Thomson sold to Reverend Jese Brook and the Church of Christ, and their successors of the same faith, for $6.00, a two-acre tract for a meeting house and graveyard part of a military survey of Peter Thomas and bordering William Wallace.	Witnesses:  Josiah Fort, William Brooks, John Riggs, Jesse Brooks. Signed:  Peter Thomson

It's odd that Peter did not need to have his wife sign the deed.  I would take this to mean she was deceased, but she appears in the 1810 Census — or was she a second wife?

10.  General Cross Index to Deeds No. 1, 1820-1906.  Todd County Clerk, Elkton, KY (LDS FHC Film No. 1877112).  A hand-written, alphabetical index to both grantors and grantees, probably compiled ca. 1910 or not long after.

Date	Grantee	Grantor	Type	Bk	Pg
16 Dec 1820	Thompson, Peter	Thomas Bryan	Deed	A	90
27 Jul 1826	Thompson, P	R G Wagner?	Deed	D	233
20 Oct 1827	Thompson, P	C Mobley	Deed	E	73
24 Oct 1828	Thompson, P	Wm Wyatt	Deed	E	223

With regard to the last deed, it was signed 24 Oct 1827, then proved in court on 12 May 1828. 

10a.  Deed:  Thomas BRYAN to Peter THOMPSON, 16 Dec 1820.  Todd County, Kentucky, Deed Book A.  LDS Microfilm #0355905. 

10b.  Deed: Peter THOMPSON to Robert G. Waggoner, 27 Jul 1826.  Todd County, Kentucky, Deed Book D.  LDS Microfilm #0355906. 

10c.  Deed:  Peter THOMPSON to Claibourne MOBLEY, 20 Oct 1827.  Todd County, Kentucky, Deed Book E.  LDS Microfilm #0355906. 

10d.  Deed:  Peter THOMPSON to William WYATT, 24 Oct 1827.  Todd County, Kentucky, Deed Book E.  LDS Microfilm #0355906. 

11.  James Taylor Killebrew.  1987.  County Court Order Book "B" Part 2 for Christian County, Kentucky, for the years Nov. 1809 - 6 June 1814 for a County Court held at Town of Hopkinsville.  Christian County Family and History Research Society (4465 Cadiz Rd., Hopkinsville, KY 42240).  On p. 33:

Pg. in Book B	Date	Motions
74	12 Nov 1810	The viewers of the road from Christian Carpenter to the Sinks of Little River this day made their report and approved by the Court which is ordered to be recorded and filed and the road established accordingly and John Thompson came into Court and made oath that Jos. Shanklin, John Thompson, Peter Thompson and Henry Burgess came before him and acknowledged that they were willing the said road might run through their lands and it is ordered that John Burgess be appointed surveyor from his house to the West Fork and John Thompson from the West Fork to Christian Carpenters and the following hands is alloted to said Thompson to wit:  William Wallace 7 hands, Henry and Peter Carpenter, John Mann, Charles Miller, _____ Tanner, Peter Thompson, Andrew Thompson, John Downey and Robert Downey, Thomas Bryant, Robert Baker, Wm. Garten, Joseph Shanklin, Isaac Bean, Christian, John, and Peter Carpenter, Joseph Frasier 2 hands and that Nathaniel Davis appointed to allot the hands to John Burgess and report to the next court.

12.  William Henry Perrin, ed.  1884.  County of Christian, Kentucky: Historical and Biogrphical.  F.A. Battey Publ. Co., Chicago.

p. 53

The Circuit Court... The first term was held in Christian County March 28, 1803... The Grand Jury for this court was as follows... Peter Thompson...

13.  Ruth Hightower Smith, ed.  The Early Settlement of Todd County, Kentucky (courtesy of Betty McCorkle, Christian Co. Gen. Soc., Hopkinsville, KY).  On p. 29, from a newspaper sketch by Urban Ewing Kennedy, whose previous column had been about Henry Carpenter:

I closed with old Henry Carpenter, who built his block house and defended it successfully.  Then a half mile up the branch Billy Wallace settled, and planted a large orchard.  This was the first orchard in all this country.  Wallace was of French descent, raised a large family of boys and girls.  He sold his place to Thos. Bryan, and I married one of his daughters in 1822, one of the best women God ever gave to an unworthy man.  This settlement was made about 200 yards southeast of where Bell's Chapel now stands.  Then Peter Thompson, a Dane, was a half mile east of that.  These were the first settlers of the neighborhood.  Then, coming up north were Andrew Mann and John Mann, that many will recollect.  Old John Mann settled where Jack Bell now resides; then further up the creek Davis settled where J.T.C. Moore now lives.  He was the father of William C. Davis, a cousin of the Reeveses who married Ann North and was the father of Joseph and Edmund, Burrus's wife, and of Mrs. Townley.

Nathaniel Burrus is the agent who paid the taxes on Peter's land for Peter and, later, his heirs, 1828-1845.

14.  "Indenture between Nathaniel BURRUS and Nancy BURRUS of Todd Co., KY."  Todd County, Kentucky, Deed Books K-M, 1836-40.  LDA Microfilm No. 355909 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen, 21 Mar 2001):  gives mention of our subject indicating he had to have been deceased by 7 Jun 1837.

Thomas Thompson was a Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) clergyman of some note, who came to California from Missouri in 1849.  In E.B. Ware's (1916) book on the History of the Disciples of Christ in California (see excerpt), Ware mentions that in 1850, Thomas baptized his nephew, "J.N.B. Wyatt," in a "miners' pit" near "Father Thompson's tavern," which was in Coloma, California.  J.N.B. Wyatt is "James Nathaniel Burroughs Wyatt," son of William T. and Rachel (Thompson) Wyatt (he shows up as their son, James N.B., in the 1850 Census).  William and Rachel both died in Spickard, Grundy Co., MO (where Thomas Thompson's wife, Delilah, died).  J.N.B. Wyatt came to California and ultimately settled in Winters, Yolo Co., CA. 

In a biographical sketch of J.N.B. Wyatt in his (1913) History of Yolo County, California (see excerpt), Gregory describes J.N.B.'s trip across the plains to reach California and mentions, "The journey ended in the Sacramento valley September 15, 1850, and soon afterward at Coloma, Eldorado (sic) county, Mr. Wyatt met an uncle, Rev. Thomas Thompson, who was the first Christian preacher in that region."  This meeting is consistent with the known whereabouts of Thomas Thompson in 1850 (i.e., Thomas arrived in Gold Run, Placer Co., in Sep 1849, moved to Coloma, El Dorado Co., in 1850, and moved to the Santa Clara Valley in 1851).  Gregory also mentions that, "In religion he [J.N.B. Wyatt] was connected with the Christian Church." 

Note that Gregory's book was published three years before Ware's book, so one might suspect Ware had simply gleaned the story from Gregory.  However, the E.B. Ware version of the story is more complete, including details not mentioned by Gregory.  It may be that both authors used the same source (the same informant), but if the story came from two different sources, it lends credibility to the story.

In 1829 in Todd Co., KY, Nathaniel Burrus pays 1828 and 1829 taxes as agent for Peter Thompson and for William Wyatt, who are adjacent on the tax list.

In the 1870s, J.N.B. Wyatt was living in Maine Prairie, Solano Co., CA, as was George Washington Thompson, a son of Thomas Thompson.   Also at that time, John A.C. Thompson, another son of Thomas Thompson, and his daughter, Mary Lucinda (Thompson) Marshall, and her family were living in Binghamton, about five miles NW of Maine Prairie.