Brief Life History of Jabez
When Jabez Thompson was born from 1705 to 1713, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Thompson II, was 50 and his mother, Frances Whitmore, was 42. He married Lydia Snow on 13 November 1735, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 10 June 1759, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Jabez Thompson in entry for Kesiah Thompson, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Jabez Thompson in entry for Lydia Thompson, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Jabez Thompson in entry for Esther Thompson, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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