Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth married Samuel Baker in 1749 in Prince Edward Co., Virginia. Samuel (son of Robert Baker and Susanna Packer) was born between 1711 and 1728 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died on 24 Dec 1757 in Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina; was buried in Centre Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Baker was born between 1749 and 1752 in Salisbury, Rowan Co., North Carolina.
2. Margaret Baker was born between 1750 and 1757 in Rowan Co., North Carolina.
3. Robert Baker was born between 1751 and 1755 in Rowan Co., North Carolina; died in May 1809 in Logan Co., Kentucky.
4. Mary Baker was born between 1753 and 1755.

Elizabeth married Charles Harris after 1758. Charles was born about 1731; died on 4 Jul 1776. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Samuel Harris was born after 1758; died in 1789 in Princeton.
2. Charles Harris was born in 1762.

Notes:

[Tennessee Cousins]

The maternal ancestor of the CROCKETES and the paternal ancestor of the THOMPSONS was that certain distinguished minister and Divine, of History, REV. JOHN THOMSON, who is buried in Baker's Graveyard near Beatty's Ford, in Mecklenburg County N. C.

[The Scotch-Irish, or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America]

The Rev. John Thomson, a Presbyterian minister who had removed from Chestnut Level, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, to the Virginia valley about 1744, was ordered by the Synod in May of that year, to correspond with "many people" of North Carolina, who had petitioned the Synod for supplies. Either before or after that date, a daughter of Mr. Thomson had married Mr. Baker, who was one of the earliest settlers on Davidson's creek, locating about five miles from Beattie's ford, within the bounds of what afterwards became Centre Congregation, in Iredell county. Mr. Thomson visited this settlement in the summer of 1751, probably with the intention of remaining there. He was the first minister of any denomination to preach in that region. It is supposed by his biographer that he went at the solicitation of Moses Winslow, George Davidson, and other settlers in the vicinity of his son-in-law, who had known him in Pennsylvania. In 1751 Mr. Baker lived between the present Centre Church and Statesville. While in North Carolina, Mr. Thomson visited the new settlements within a radius of twenty miles from his home. He had a preaching station at William Morrison's near the present Concord Church, on Third Creek (an affluent of the South Yadkin), six miles northwest from Statesville; another station was within the bounds of what is now Fourth Creek Church; another, in Third Creek Congregation; another at Cathey's Meeting-house, afterwards Thyatira, ten miles from Salisbury; another, at what was then Osborne's Meeting-house; another, just below the present village of Davidson College, in Mecklenburg county. Mr. Thomson may also have had another preaching station farther south, within the bounds of what afterwards became Hopewell and Sugar Creek congregations. He died near Statesville in 1753.

John married Esther Osbourne about 1710 in Ireland. Esther was born about 1693; died between 1733 and 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]