Moved to Kinningly, CT ca. 1722 and settled in a part set off in 1730 as Thompson. Purchased land there "28 Feb 1726 from Thomas Clough of Salisbury, Essex Co., MA, yeoman, for a consideration of 200 pounds for a part of a farm called Gove's Farm - about 100 acres beginning at a stake and heap of stones - thence to John Russels Road and medow and Converse's Meadow - to a white oak tree"24, 2:125