19TH CENTURY LEDGER OF WILLIAM THOMPSON JUNIATA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
A wonderful store ledger of William Thompson of Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, dating from 1809 to 1813. There are 263 pages of account records.
William Thompson, Sr., was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in January 1752 and died in Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, in January 1813. He was the son of John Thompson (Thomson). William married Jane Mitchell in March 1780. There children included: John "Goshen," James, William, Sarah, Robert, Isaac, Jane, Elizabeth, and Samuel.
William Thompson, Sr., participated in battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Yorktown, and others. Commissioned a lieutenant in Provincial Army May 31, 1775.
William Thompson, Sr., purchased the Quiggle property in 1785 and built a stone dwelling-house below the present residence of Theodore S. Thompson, and a stone grist-mill the same year upon the site of the present mill, and in 1790 built a saw-mill near the grist-mill. In this year he laid out a town on the land. . . . He and James Murray were licensed to keep tavern in Thompsontown in January 1794.
In 1801 William Thompson, Sr., opened a store in the stone house now occupied by Theodore S. Thompson, and kept there until his death. In 1809 he erected a fulling-mill and two distilleries at the place, and in 1812 put in carding-machines. He died about 1813. After his death, William, Jr., with his brother Robert, took the business at Thompsontown and conducted it many years, increasing the business and purchasing much other land in different parts.
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