James THOMPSON

                   Historical information in notes.  Revolutionary War Soldier, wounded.

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MILITARY: DAR Application #689260 for Jesse May Anderson Branyon for DAR membership based Alexander Thompson. Alexander Thompson was in the battle of Kings Mountain and was wounded in the head. There is record of his military service in the records of the Georgia Secretary of State. In later life he lived in Pike County, Mississippi.BIRTH-DEATH-CHILDREN-SPOUSE: DAR Application 689260.BURIAL: The Madison County Heritage Foundation, MADISON COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK, 1986, page 136.CHILDREN: Letter from Jan McChesney, 21 Lilly Pond Road, Barrington, New Hampshire 03825 dated 29 May 1996.SPOUSE-BIRTH-CHILDREN: Borderbund World Family Tree CD ROM Collection, Volume 6, Volume 9 File 3529.PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-BIRTH-DEATH-MILITARY: Calvin T. Floyd, THE THOMPSON FAMILY, June 1982, manuscript on file at the Madison County Library. Alexander Thompson and his sister and her husband, William McDavid, moved to Burke County, North Carolina. Alexander Thompson received land grants of 300 acres in North Carolina. In 1788 Alexander and William McDavid moved their families to Wilkes County, Georgia. In 1790 the Thompson family moved to South Broad River, that later became a part of Madison County, Georgia. This settlement was known as Thompson's Mill.BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-SPOUSE-PARENTS-MILITARY: Broderbund World Family Tree CD ROM, Volume 4, file #3752. Alexander Thompson, Sr. fought in the battle of Kings Mountain. A man named Griffith was shot and when Alexander Thompson stopped to help him a ball struck him in the forehead passed over his head under the scalp and came out at the back of his head leaving a scar where hair was prevented from growing. (From: HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1798-1876, by L. W. Conerly). Alexander Thompson and Solomon Strickland (father of his daughter in law) are listed as receiving land warrants as Revolutionary Soldiers. He was given land in Wilkes County, Georgia between 1783 and 1785 (History of Georgia and Georgia's People, by George G. Smith, page 623 & 640). See also DAR #54539.PROBATE: The will of Alexander Thompson is recorded in Book L-F, pages 136-137 records of Elbert County, Georgia.