Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Genealogy of John Thompson, Who Landed at Plymouth, in the Month of May, 1622
Halifax, spelt his name in this way; and the records of the town of Mendon, spell the name in the same manner. The letter p was not introduced into the name by any of his descendants, till a century and a half had rolled away. Tradition is silent respecting any incident in his life, till he arrived to manhood. Then it presents him to us in many events interesting and entertaining. It appears from his will, he was a carpenter. Besides building houses for others, he built one for himself in each of the places he selected as a settlement, and one for each of his sons, John and Jacob, in the latter place. Tradition says he built the first framed Meeting-house in Plymouth, and as a compensation for his labor, the town gave him a deed of a piece of land, from the Market-house, back, extend ing to the herring-brook, now called Spring-hill.
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