John Theophilus Henderson

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mc-collough/dna-results McCullough Y dna Project Fnu Ydna IY8599 Lnu Do not merge to Thompson profiles. The Richard Henderson Tax District Henderson male line has the most likely candidate for this profile. The known communals in said district are Glover and Gilliam who were in this line's descendant and lateral community. The sir names prominent in the McCullough Project come from I A 2 Hap group and mutations are in the media section down to the parent ydna of IY8599 being the same as Canady, Henderson, and Mims of MS. . 585444 Canada/Kennedy McCollough, b. 1770? and d. 1836 likely brother and son of John Cannady

Fnu Ydna IY8599 partnered with Alsey (Butt) Thompson, Old Cheraw. Together they had the following children: Henry Butt Thompson, Sr /Chicasaw By Marriage, Enrolled as Cheraw Mt Tabor; Sarah Elizabeth (Thompson) / Old Cheraw of MS; John Thompson, enrolled Mt Tabor as Cheraw.

GEDCOM Note

Note: A number of internet sites and eastern Thompson family members state that John's name was Theophilus and that he was English. However, the Emerett Nicholson Papers and the book the Sharp, Nicholson and Thompson families of East Texas, both state he was an Irish seaman (LDS film 1,698,001) All land records list him only as John and not as Theophilus. He did have a son named Theophilus and this may have been his middle name, or a nick name, but not the name he used on any official papers. This is one reason that those pursuing Theophilus Thompson can go no further back than him. As to his English origins, all papers related to him including some census records of family members state Scot or Irish ancestry. As a merchant seaman married to an English-Scot-Cheraw woman he probably was in England rather often, but clearly from the family bible of his son Daniel, which was purchased in Scotland, this line of Thompson's is Scottish via Ireland.

John originally settled in Albermarle County, Virginia before moving to Norfolk County, Virginia. From there he took his family to Nash County, North Carolina and then into Robeson County, North Carolina. He was a merchant seaman, owning a ship called the Ranger that he sailed from Bristol, England, to Norfolk and then to the Bahamas and Barbados. His ship was captured and he was killed by pirates near Barbados in 1757. Lumbee Indian tradition states he one of the primary progenitors of the Thompson's of the Lumbee (Cheraw) tribe. There are also a number of the Thompson family in Barbados today where it is also believed he had a wife or concubine. All of his proven descendants, however, are through his wife Alsey Butt.

There is also the line claimed through a Nepsy with two children Reuben and Nancy. However Reubens date of birth would indicate he was a grandchild rather than a child as Rueben was born 8 years after John's death. I am including him under what some have listed as his older sister through Nepsy for data purposes. More research will have to be completed before a positive link is accomplished. The possibility of Nancy's being Rueben's mother would make more sense. Nancy married a James Thompson, but I cannot determine who this is. The dates are wrong for it to be her first cousin James, who is Matthew's son. JCT 1/23/00