Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . ompson, Violette (Thompson) Lamb,widow of General Lamb, president of the Society of the Cincinnati, are, Az. alion passant, or, and the Crest, a lion rampant or. John Thompson, son of John and Ruth (Curtis) Thompson, born 1718,died 1753. He married his cousin, Mehitable, daughter of Joseph Booth, ofStratford, Connecticut. Lieutenant William Thompson, son of John and Mehitable (Booth)Thompson, and grandfather of Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, first abovereferred to, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, Mar

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . ompson, Violette (Thompson) Lamb,widow of General Lamb, president of the Society of the Cincinnati, are, Az. alion passant, or, and the Crest, a lion rampant or. John Thompson, son of John and Ruth (Curtis) Thompson, born 1718,died 1753. He married his cousin, Mehitable, daughter of Joseph Booth, ofStratford, Connecticut. Lieutenant William Thompson, son of John and Mehitable (Booth)Thompson, and grandfather of Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, first abovereferred to, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, March 16, 1742. He was lieu-tenant of a company of Connecticut Militia in the early part of the Revolution-ary struggle. As such he had command of his company (the captain being de-tained at home by a peculiar sickness which was apt in those days to seize uponsome timid patriots when danger was to be met) at Ridgefield, Connecticut,April 2J, 1777. A large force of British soldiers were on the march from Nor-walk to Danbury, pillaging and burning as they went, and Lieutenant Thomp- (- X3. ?!- ^e^pz^ti V ?*. when a handful of intrepid America

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