History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 618.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

COL. PRESTON THOMSON, retired, Georgetown; was born in Scott County, Ky.,
in 1815; he is the grandson of Rodes Thomson, a Virginian, who came to
Kentucky very early.  His only son, the father of our subject, was born at
Marysville, then Limestone, Kentucky, in the year 1788, and shortly after
this event the family removed to this county and settled where Rodes
Thomson had entered a large tract of land, on Cane Run; the old man had a
keen sense of the ridiculous, and play many practical jokes on the early
settlers and his servants.  His son served in the war of 1812, in Capt.
Jacob Stucker's Company and Col. R. M. Johnson's Regiment.  He was
captured at the battle of the River Raisin and taken as a prisoner of war
to Canada.  About 1812, he married Miss Sallie, daughter of Gen. John and
Betsey (Johnson) Payne.  Her mother was a sister of Col. R. M. Johnson,
and as a brave girl, molded bullets for the soldiers in fort at Bryant's
Station.  After his marriage to Miss Payne, settled near Georgetown where
he lived and run the Thomson mill, which was built and moved there by a
man named Pitts.  He died in 1852, leaving two sons and one daughter, as
follows: Sidney R., who was born in 1813, and died in 1879, and was a
successful farmer and miller; Mrs. E. P. Worthington, of Mississippi, and
our subject, Col. Preston Thomas, who entered Georgetown College at its
opening, and graduated in 1833, in the second class sent out.  He was
appointed County Clerk by Judge A. K. Wooley in 1839, and served with
distinction in that office until 1856, and was once elected by popular
vote.  He enlisted in 1862, in Gen. Buford's Brigade where he held the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

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