John Tomson
Marian and Agnes Wilder were the daughters of
James Lewellyn Wilder, the son of
Francis L. Wilder, the son of
Hadassah Thompson Wilder, the daughter of
Asaph Thompson the son of
Peter Thomson, the son of
Thomas Thomson, the son of
John Thomson, Jr., the son of
John Tomson, who immigrated from England to Massachusetts about the year 1621.
This link provides information about the immigrant ancestor Jon Tomson, who came to America as a young boy in the early 1620's. He married Mary Cooke, the daughter of Francis Cooke, a Mayflower passenger, and his wife, Hester Mahieu Cooke, who arrived in Plymouth on one of the first ships after the Mayflower.
John Tomson married Mary Cooke, who was the daughter of Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. Here is a link to the Cooke branch of our family history.
A Genealogy of John Tomson, immigrant ancestor of James Lewellyn Wilder, through his grandmother Hadassah Thompson Wilder. This book, by his descendant Ignatius Thompson, is considered one of the definitive books about the Thompson descendants of John Tomson. This book is an important source document in establishing our ancestry to not only the Tomsons, but to the people we are descended from who came to America on the Mayflower.
John Tomson came to Massachusetts as a boy in 1622, on one of the first ships after the Mayflower. He married Mary Cooke, the daughter of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke. Through the Thompsons, we are descended from four Mayflower families: Francis Cooke, Peter Browne, George Soule, and James Chilton, ( we are also descendants of Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower through Asaph Thompson's mother Rebecca Thomas Thompson). We are also descended from several of the Pilgrim families that followed immediately after the Mayflower in the early 1620's.
Dr. Asaph Thompson was the great grandson of John Tomson.
The History of Middleborough, Massachusetts, which John Tomson helped to found in the 1600's, with seach tags for Thompson hits. It may take a few seconds for the hits to load, but it's pretty fast.
History of Middleborough, Massachusetts
Pilgrim Hall, one of America's oldest museums in continuous operation, is a repository for artifacts from the Pilgrim families of early Massachusetts. Within their collection are several items related to our direct Thompson ancestors. Below are some items that are from the John Tomson family of Middleborough and Halifax, Massachusetts. Dr. Asaph Thompson, the great grandfather of James Lewellyn Wilder, may well have known some of these items as a boy in Halifax, as they were then in the possession of his cousin, also from Halifax, which in his time was a small village. I have seen one reference to the "Lobstertail Helmet" as having been John Tomson's, although that attribution is not given here. The Cooke Thompson Bowl shown below comes from the home of John Tomson and his wife Mary Cooke Tomson. Mary Cooke was the daughter of Francis Cooke and Hester Mayhieu Cooke. Francis Cooke was a Mayflower passenger, Hester arrived on one of the earliest subsequent ships from England.