Dorothy TOMPSON

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• Fact: Son of Thomas Thompson

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John Thompson, in the year 1626, was living at 'Little Preston,' in the Parish of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England, with his wife Alice, and children. On the sixth day of November in that year, 1626, John Thompson made his will, signing his name to that form; both forms of spelling, with and without the 'h' are, however, used indiscriminately in the body of the will and on the parish register. When the eleventh of April 1627, came around, John Thompson was dead, and at that date his will was probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Alice was probable the second wife of John Thompson. The son Thomas, who is mentioned in his will, was, doubtless, a child of the first wife, and the eldest son, by reason of a better inheritance than the others received. Thomas probably remained in England . We do not know what date the widow with her children came to America, but previous to 1640 she was living at Roxbury, Mass. Probably it was there that the daughter Mary was m. to Rev. Ricard Blinman of Gloucester, Mass. The Tompson family in their English home held position, their social status being next to that of the county families. Mistress Alice must have been a lady of character and refinement. Her success in bringing her children through all their troubles and so well preparing them for the duties of life which they assumed, testifies to this. She m. 2d Robert Park.

John married Alice FREEMAN about 1613. Alice (daughter of Henry FREEMAN and Margaret EDWARDS) was born in 1595 in Preston, England; died after 24 Dec 1658 in Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alice Freeman was born say 1595. She married, first say 1613, JOHN TOMPSON of Little Preston (a village in the parish of Preston Capes), Northamptonshire, who had an earlier wife with whom he had at least one child, a son John born 1 October 1611. John andAlice purchased half of the lands and manor of Saxby in Leicestershire on 1 April 1616. John died between 7n November 1626, the date of his codicil, and 17 December 1626, the date of baptism of his youngest child. Alice and at least two of her daughters emigrated to New England.She was living in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by 2 April 1640, when a complaint was drawn up against "Alice Tompson widdow." She married, second, between 30 May 1644 (when the Massachusetts House of Deputies granted permission) and 28 October 1644 (when Gov. Wyllys of Connecticut mentioned in a letter to his son in England that "Mr. Parke of Weathersfield...married my Cosin Tompson & his sonne Thomas hath married hir Daughter Dorothy Tompson") Robert Parke, as his second wife, son of Robert and Alice (Chaplin) Parke. They moved to New London, Connecticut, by 1651. Alice died after 24 December 1658, probably at New London or Stonington, Connecticut, when she was a witness to a deed. Robert Parke was of Mystic (Stonington), Connecticut, when he made his will on 14 May 1660, in which he named only sons from his first marriage. He died on 4 February 1664/5.