The English origin of the Tompson brothers of New Haven, Connecticut

 I am pleased to announce that I will have an article published in the Summer 2025 issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register regarding the English origin of the Tompson brothers of New Haven, Connecticut.

I am referring to Anthony, William and John Tompson, who were non-original signers of the "Fundamental Agreement" which was dated 4 Jun 1639 (1).

These brothers were originally thought to have originated from Lenham, Kent, England (2), but this was proven incorrect by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1912 (3).

If you are descendants of these brothers, please get a copy of the Register!

(1) Fundamental Agreement of the Colony of New Haven, Records of the Colony of New Haven, 1 1638-1649, Connecticut State Library

(2) Rev. A. G. Hibbard, History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut (Hartford, CT, Press of The 2 Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1897) 526 

(3) Eliza J. Lines, Marks-Platt Ancestry (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 3 1902) 46-50 

(4) Donald Lines Jacobus “Notes on Thompson Families of Connecticut” The New England 4 Historical and Genealogical Register 66 (1912): 198-199