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William Thompson
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 5×-great-grandfather · Bond line
Marriage & children
Spouse(spouse unknown)
Records behind this page
Library of Virginia, Chancery Records, Westmoreland County, Virginia, cause 1801-002 (index no. 193-1801-002), Richard Thompson &c. v. William Thompson. LVA free scans, images 1-9
Bill of complaint, image 2; copy of the will of William Thompson of Washington Parish, 29 Jan 1785, image 9; probate endorsement, image 8. Will's children clause also read on the recorded copy, FamilySearch DGS 7645868 image 613, ark 3:1:3QS7-89PX-F5W2
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[Read on the images: all nine images 8 Sep 2026 (register K527); the bill, image 2, re-read 11 Oct 2026 (K998); the will's children clause compared with the recorded copy, DGS 7645868 image 613. PARTIAL transcription: the clauses below only; square brackets are summary, not quotation.] (Bill, image 2) your Orator Richard Thompson and Your Oratrix Elizabeth Lovell Thompson and Your Oratrix Maria Thompson by the said Richard Thompson her next friend, that their father William Thompson duly made and published his last will ... (Will, image 9) [William Thompson of Westmoreland County and Washington Parish, 29 January 1785; wife Anne; the estate after her death to be sold and divided] between my children Richard, Betsey Lovel and Maria Thompson [; to his son William a man named Tom] now in the possession of my Mother in law Margaret Thomson [; to his daughter Mary land] that came by her grand father Hiles [; executors Anne Thompson, William Nelson, Lewis Smith, John Berkley and John Thompson]. (Image 8) [Proved 28 June 1785, presented by the executors Anne Thompson and Lewis Smith.] [Answer by William Thompson, image 5; decree 1801 ordering a sale by Daniel Carmichael, William Nelson and Thomas Muse, images 6-7.]
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 11 Oct 2026
AUDITED 11 Oct 2026 - WILLIAM THOMPSON, of Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His will is dated 29 Jan 1785 and was proved 28 Jun 1785, presented by his executors Anne Thompson and Lewis Smith. His wife was Anne. The will names a son William, a daughter Mary, and the children Richard, Betsey Lovel and Maria Thompson, who were to share the estate after Anne's death; it also mentions "my Mother in law Margaret Thomson". The will is known from the copy in LVA chancery cause 193-1801-002, Richard Thompson &c. v. William Thompson (1801), in which Richard, Elizabeth Lovell Thompson and Maria sued as his children and the court ordered a sale (register K527). [758] Richard Thompson is entered as his son on a proof argument (see [758]'s note). His other children are not entered, and his own parents are unknown.
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