Alexander Sayers

William married Esther Thompson about 1753 in Virginia. Esther (daughter of Rev. John Thompson and Esther Osbourne) was born in 1710 in Northern Ireland; died on 19 Nov 1770 in Wythe Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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[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]