| Sources:
1. Catherine Lindsay Knorr. 1950. Marriage Bonds
and Ministers' Returns of Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1754-1810.
Self-published (reprinted 1982 by Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC).
On p. 76:
| 20 August 1797 |
James THOMPSON and Sally Baker, widow of Douglas Baker |
Sur. John Hix |
2. 1790/1800 Censuses. The 1790 and 1800 Censuses of Virginia
were destroyed during the War of 1812.
3. 1810 Cenus. James is said to be in Logan Co.,
KY, but I can't find him in the database at GenealogyLibrary.com or on
the Broderbund Census disk (CD-313) or in the AIS database at Ancestry.com.
4. 1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#13 of 19; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen; see 1820
Table):
| 1820 |
KY |
Trigg Co. |
p. 10 |
Ln. 4 |
James Thompson |
130301-20001-0-800 |
1000-0100 |
These data indicate:s
| No., Race, Gender |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 white male |
9 or under |
1810-1820 |
= Cyrus (b. 1819) |
| 3 white male |
10-15 |
1804-1810 |
= Hyrum (b. 1809)
= Moses (b. 1807)
= James (b. 1805) |
| 3 white male |
19-25* |
1794-1801 |
= William (b. 1802/3)
= Thomas (b. ca. 1801)
= John (b. 1799/1800) |
| 1 white male |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1775 |
= James (b. 1770) |
| 2 white females |
9 or under |
1810-1820 |
= Sarah (b. 1815)
= Adaline (b. 1812) |
| 1 white female |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1775 |
= Sarah (b. ca. 1773) |
| 8 |
people engaged in agriculture |
| 1 male slave |
13 and under |
1806-1820 |
= ? |
| 1 female slave |
14-25 |
1794-1806 |
= ? |
| *In the 1820 Census, the third column is
age class 16-18 and the fourth column is age class 16-25; therefore, any
individual in column three is duplicated in column four. By subtracting
the number in column three from the number in column four, you can create
an age class "19-25." |
Either William is in the wrong age class or we have the wrong birthyear
for him, but enumerator error makes more sense.
5. 1830 Census (extracted by A. Robert Matthiesen; see 1830
Table):
| Thompson, James |
010 010 110 - 001 100 010 |
KY |
Trigg Co. |
Cadiz |
p. 9 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
5-9 |
1820-1825 |
= should be Cyrus (b. 1819) |
| 1 male |
20-29 |
1800-1810 |
= most likely Hiram (b. 1809),
possibly Moses (b. 1807) |
| 1 male |
40-49 |
1780-1790 |
= ? |
| 1 male |
50-59 |
1770-1780 |
= James (b. 1770) |
| 1 female |
10-14 |
1815-1820 |
= Sarah (b. 1815) |
| 1 female |
15-19 |
1810-1815 |
= Adaline (b. 1812) |
| 1 female |
50-59 |
1770-1780 |
= Sarah (b. ca. 1773) |
The male age 40-49 is too old to be a son of James and Sarah, so it's hard
to say who he might be. Their four eldest sons are married and gone.
Neither Hiram nor Moses nor Thomas is yet married; I would have expected
all of them to still be at home. Cyrus appears to have been mis-classified.
6. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#18-19 of 67; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| 1840 |
KY |
Trigg Co. |
pp. 285B-286A |
Ln. 16 |
James Thompson |
000 010 001 - 201 000 001 |
110010-100100 |
2100000 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 white male |
20-29 |
1810-1820 |
= son? |
| 1 white male |
60-69 |
1770-1780 |
= James (b. 1770) |
| 2 white females |
4 or under |
1835-1840 |
= granddaughter?
= granddaughter? |
| 1 white female |
10-14 |
1825-1830 |
= granddaughter? |
| 1 white female |
60-69 |
1770-1780 |
= Sarah (b. ca. 1773) |
| 1 male slave |
9 or under |
1830-1840 |
= ? |
| 1 male slave |
10-23 |
1816-1830 |
= ? |
| 1 male slave |
55-99 |
1740-1785 |
= ? |
| 1 female slave |
9 or under |
1830-1840 |
= ? |
| 1 female slave |
36-54 |
1785-1804 |
= ? |
| 2 |
persons employed in mining |
| 1 |
persons employed in agriculture |
It looks like a widowed son has moved home.
7. 1850 Census Index/Microfilm (online at GenealogyLibrary.com):
1st District, Trigg Co., KY, p. 292, 33/33, enumerated 3 Aug 1850 (extracted
by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| Wm. C. Thompson |
47 |
M |
Grocer |
Virginia |
| Sarah Thompson |
77 |
F |
|
same |
| Robert W. Raine |
24 |
M |
Tailor |
No Carolina |
| Emily Raine |
19 |
F |
|
Kentucky |
| Eliza Thompson |
15 |
F |
|
same |
| Lucy Thompson |
13 |
F |
|
same |
Sarah (STEELE) BAKER THOMPSON is living with her widowed son, William
C. THOMPSON. Lucy, Eliza, and Emily appear to be William's daughters
and Robert his son-in-law.
8. Christian County, Kentucky, Tax Rolls,
1797-1816. Heritage Quest, Microfilm No. V20-72 (extracted by
Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| Year |
Persons Names
Chargeable with
the Tax |
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
Acres |
Watercourse |
In Whose Name
Entered |
In Whose Name
Surveyed |
In Whose Name
Patented |
| 1st |
2nd |
3rd |
| 1815 |
Thompson James |
3 |
2 |
8 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
200 |
- |
Little River |
- |
- |
Wm Croghan |
| 1816 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| 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 male horses); G = Rate of Covering (stud fee, in dollars); 1st/2nd/3rd
refer to 1st Rate, 2nd Rate, or 3rd Rate land. |
Comment: between 1815 and 1819, James apparently sells the 200
acres because in 1819 he shows up with just the 150 acres granted him in
1817.
9. A.B. Willhite. [n.d.] Christian Co., Kentucky,
Tax List, 1819-1823. (Self-published; available from author
at 4396 Coopertown Rd., Russellville, KY 42276, or from the Christian County
Genealogical Society, Hopkinsville, KY).
Pg. in
Willhite |
Year |
First
Name |
Last
Name |
A |
B |
C |
D |
Acres |
Watercourse |
| 64 |
1819 |
Jas |
Thompson |
1 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
150 |
M F |
| - |
1820-23 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Legend for numerical data: A = White
Males 21 or over; B = Blacks over 16; C = Total Blacks; D = Horses |
| Abbreviations: M F = Muddy Fork of
the LIttle River, now in NE Trigg Co. |
As expected, James drops off the Christian Co. tax rolls when Trigg Co.
is formed in 1820.
10. Barney Thompson. MS. The Thompson Family of Prince Edward
County, Virginia, Butler and Trigg Counties, Kentucky, and the Florida
Parishes of Louisiana: the Descendants of Thomas Thompson, 1749-1810.
Copies at Western Kentucky University, the Filson Club Library, and the
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis. (Excerpts courtesy of the author,
with my sincere thanks for his generosity in sharing them.)
11a. William Henry Perrin, ed. 1884. Counties of Christian
and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical.
F.A. Battey Publ. Co., Chicago. Partially reprinted in facsimile
as County of Christian, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical by
Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA. On pp. 421-422, a biographical sketch
of George
V. Thompson, son of James Edward Thompson, grandson of our subject.:
| His paternal grandfather, James Thompson, came from Virginia
to Logan County, Ky., being among the earliest settlers of that county;
thence he moved to the town of Cadiz in Trigg County, in which he died.
James
E. Thompson was his second son and was born February 25, 1805. |
11b. William Henry Perrin, ed. 1884. Counties
of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical.
F.A. Battey Publ. Co., Chicago. Partially reprinted, 1994, in facsimile
as History of Trigg County by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.
| p. 26 |
At the August term [of the county court],
1820, James Thompson was appointed jailor. |
| p. 27 |
The county levy at this term was fixed at 75 cents, and the following
allowances for the year entered upon record...
To James Thompson, Jailor, for attending court six days.......$6
00 |
| p. 33 |
Jailors.--James Thompson... |
| p. 87 |
Prominent among those who secured homes in the vicinity of Cadiz
was James Thompson, whose first improvements were made where Robert
Wilford lives, within the town limits. He came about the year 1813. |
| p. 93 |
The early inhabitants of the place [the Town
of Cadiz] were the two brothers Robert and Alexander Baker,
James
Thompson, their stepfather, and his sons... W.P.M. Scott and
Robert Baker were the first merchants... the latter sold goods from the
corner house on Main Street just opposite the grocery house of G.W. Lindsay.
These stores were stocked with miscellaneous assortments of merchandise
and seem to have been extensively patronized by the early inhabitants of
the village and surrounding country. James Thompson kept the
first hotel in a two-story log-house situated on the lot where John L.
Street's large brick storehouse now stands, and if he failed to accumulate
a fortune by plying the occupation of "mine host," we may find a partial
elucidation of the mystery in mentioning the fact that law only allowed
him to charge 12½ cents for a pint of whisky, 25 cents for a quart
of porter, lodging per night 12½ cents, and furnishing a stable
for a horse twenty-four hours with three feeds, including corn, oats or
fodder, 50 cents...
The second board [of Trustees of Cadiz]
was composed of the following gentlemen: James Thompson... |
James did not come to Christian/Trigg Co. until 1815.
12. Trigg County, Kentucky. Will Book B:Will
of James THOMPSON.
13. From The Kentucky Land Grants by Willard Rouse Jillson
(1925, Filson Club Publ., Louisville, KY; reprinted 1994 by Genealogical
Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; also online at Ancestry.com). The
number is the number of acres.
| Thompson, James |
150 |
31 Mar 1817 |
Little River |
Christian Co. |
The Muddy Fork of the Little River was then in Christian Co., but from
1820 onwards in Trigg Co.
14. Query at Christian Co., KY, GenConnect Query board,
posted under the title, "James Thompson." The James Thompson who
was Justice of the Peace in Christian Co., KY, is said to have sold a family
of slaves in 1816. But the tax rolls show that that James Thompson
(the JP) owned no slaves. The James Thompson who sold the slaves
in 1816 is our subject, who came to Christian Co. in 1815 and settled on
Little River, in what later became Trigg Co.
15. Barney Thompson. MS. The Thompson Family of Prince Edward
County, Virginia, Butler and Trigg Counties, Kentucky, and the Florida
Parishes of Louisiana: the Descendants of Thomas Thompson, 1749-1810.
Copies at Western Kentucky University, the Filson Club Library, and the
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis. (Excerpts courtesy of the author.)
16. Barney Thompson, ed. 1996. "Letter
to the Editor of the Kentucky Telephone, December 20, 1889."
Pages 6-10 in Pioneers of Trigg County, Kentucky, As Seen through the
Biographical and Genealogical Articles of Cyrus Thompson in the Kentucky
Telephone and the Cadiz Record, 1889-1899. [MS] (online at the
Trigg County KY GenWeb site). |