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'''Israel Thompson''' (born [[New Haven County, Connecticut|New Haven County]], [[Connecticut]], March 7, 1742; died [[Pittstown, New York|Pittstown]], [[New York (state)|New York]], November 25, 1805) was an American soldier and politician, an early settler of Pittstown, New York.
==Family==
Thompson was the son of Enos Thompson (died 1806) and his wife Sara Hitchcock Thompson. His younger brother [[Jesse Thompson]] (1749-1834) settled in [[Dutchess County, New York|Dutchess County]], New York and was elected six times to the [[New York State Assembly]]. His much younger sister Abia or Abiah (1762-1846) married George Bliss Throop (1761-1794) and then George Whitefield Hatch and had a number of notable children - [[Enos T. Throop]] (1784-1874), a US Congressman and governor of New York, [[George B. Throop]] (1793-1854), a New York state senator and Michigan state representative, [[Israel T. Hatch|Israel Thompson Hatch]] (1808-1875), a US Congressman, and Eliza Hatch (1800-1885), the wife of first Congressmman [[Gershom Powers]] and later Judge [[William B. Rochester]].
==Life==
Thompson and his brother Jesse were in Dutchess County, New York at the start of the American Revolution, probably in the town of [[North East, New York|North East]]. They both served as officers in the Dutchess County militia. Promoted to major, Thompson commanded several companies of militia fortifying Red Hook near [[Peekskill, New York|Peekskill]] in August-September, 1776.<ref>https://ift.tt/31Qnz5s Letter, General Clinton to George Washington, September 8, 1776 (see note 3)</ref> He was later part of the [[Saratoga Campaign]].<ref>https://ift.tt/3jSUUTN John Rouse Revolutionary War pension application</ref>
Arriving in the early 1780s, Thompson was one of the early settlers in Pittstown, New York, to the northeast of [[Troy, New York|Troy]].<ref>Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York, Volume 1, George Baker Anderson, Higginson Book Co., 1897, p. 469</ref> He served in the [[5th New York State Legislature]] (1781-2) and the [[8th New York State Legislature]] (1784). In 1788 he was elected as an [[Albany County, New York|Albany County]] delegate to the state convention which ratified the United State Constitution, where he voted in the negative.<ref>Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. 2 (Mass., Conn., NH, NY, Penn, Maryland) [1827], p. 412</ref> He was elected supervisor at the first Pittstown town meeting in 1789.<ref>Landmarks..., p. 471</ref> When [[Rensselaer County, New York|Rensselaer County]] was created in 1791, he was made one of the first judges.<ref>Landmarks..., p. 70</ref> In 1797 he was elected to the [[21st New York State Legislature]], which met in 1798, but failed to be elected to the next session.<ref>https://ift.tt/2EWBCxA A New Nation Votes, election returns for Rensselaer County, 1798</ref>
The record of his will records his wife's name as Millicent.<ref>https://ift.tt/3jFFjqf Rensselaer County wills page</ref>
==Legacy==
Israel Thompson appears on a mural of the ratification in the [[United States Post Office (Poughkeepsie, New York)]], painted as a [[Works Progress Administration]] project during the building's construction 1937-9.<ref>https://ift.tt/3bti3sL Teaching American History page on New York's ratification</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:1742 births]]
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[[Category:Members of the New York State Assembly]]
[[Category:New York (state) militiamen in the American Revolution]]
[[Category:18th-century American judges]]
[[Category:County judges in the United States]]
==Family==
Thompson was the son of Enos Thompson (died 1806) and his wife Sara Hitchcock Thompson. His younger brother [[Jesse Thompson]] (1749-1834) settled in [[Dutchess County, New York|Dutchess County]], New York and was elected six times to the [[New York State Assembly]]. His much younger sister Abia or Abiah (1762-1846) married George Bliss Throop (1761-1794) and then George Whitefield Hatch and had a number of notable children - [[Enos T. Throop]] (1784-1874), a US Congressman and governor of New York, [[George B. Throop]] (1793-1854), a New York state senator and Michigan state representative, [[Israel T. Hatch|Israel Thompson Hatch]] (1808-1875), a US Congressman, and Eliza Hatch (1800-1885), the wife of first Congressmman [[Gershom Powers]] and later Judge [[William B. Rochester]].
==Life==
Thompson and his brother Jesse were in Dutchess County, New York at the start of the American Revolution, probably in the town of [[North East, New York|North East]]. They both served as officers in the Dutchess County militia. Promoted to major, Thompson commanded several companies of militia fortifying Red Hook near [[Peekskill, New York|Peekskill]] in August-September, 1776.<ref>https://ift.tt/31Qnz5s Letter, General Clinton to George Washington, September 8, 1776 (see note 3)</ref> He was later part of the [[Saratoga Campaign]].<ref>https://ift.tt/3jSUUTN John Rouse Revolutionary War pension application</ref>
Arriving in the early 1780s, Thompson was one of the early settlers in Pittstown, New York, to the northeast of [[Troy, New York|Troy]].<ref>Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York, Volume 1, George Baker Anderson, Higginson Book Co., 1897, p. 469</ref> He served in the [[5th New York State Legislature]] (1781-2) and the [[8th New York State Legislature]] (1784). In 1788 he was elected as an [[Albany County, New York|Albany County]] delegate to the state convention which ratified the United State Constitution, where he voted in the negative.<ref>Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. 2 (Mass., Conn., NH, NY, Penn, Maryland) [1827], p. 412</ref> He was elected supervisor at the first Pittstown town meeting in 1789.<ref>Landmarks..., p. 471</ref> When [[Rensselaer County, New York|Rensselaer County]] was created in 1791, he was made one of the first judges.<ref>Landmarks..., p. 70</ref> In 1797 he was elected to the [[21st New York State Legislature]], which met in 1798, but failed to be elected to the next session.<ref>https://ift.tt/2EWBCxA A New Nation Votes, election returns for Rensselaer County, 1798</ref>
The record of his will records his wife's name as Millicent.<ref>https://ift.tt/3jFFjqf Rensselaer County wills page</ref>
==Legacy==
Israel Thompson appears on a mural of the ratification in the [[United States Post Office (Poughkeepsie, New York)]], painted as a [[Works Progress Administration]] project during the building's construction 1937-9.<ref>https://ift.tt/3bti3sL Teaching American History page on New York's ratification</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1742 births]]
[[Category:1805 deaths]]
[[Category:Members of the New York State Assembly]]
[[Category:New York (state) militiamen in the American Revolution]]
[[Category:18th-century American judges]]
[[Category:County judges in the United States]]
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