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Thompson traveled to Mississippi in company with Aaron Burr.{{sfnp|”Papers of A. Jackson, Vol. 2”|1984|p=309}} |
Thompson traveled to Mississippi in company with Aaron Burr.{{sfnp|”Papers of A. Jackson, Vol. 2”|1984|p=309}} |
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Spanish confirmed to him in Concordia Parish<ref>{{Cite book |last=Concordia Parish |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100785817 |title=Concordia Parish and |last2= |date= |publisher=Concordia Parish Development Board |location=Baton Rouge}}</ref> |
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He was the second owner of [[Arlington (Natchez, Mississippi)|Arlington]] in Natchez, buying it from Lewis Evans, and selling it to the Whites.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gomez |first=Kelly |date=2019-01-15 |title=National Register Home in Mississippi Left to Crumble – |url=https://theforgottensouth.com/arlington-mansion-natchez-mississippi/ |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=theforgottensouth.com |language=en-US}}</ref> |
He was the second owner of [[Arlington (Natchez, Mississippi)|Arlington]] in Natchez, buying it from Lewis Evans, and selling it to the Whites.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gomez |first=Kelly |date=2019-01-15 |title=National Register Home in Mississippi Left to Crumble – |url=https://theforgottensouth.com/arlington-mansion-natchez-mississippi/ |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=theforgottensouth.com |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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One of his clients was [[Winthrop Sargent]], first governor of Mississippi Territory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winthrop Sargent Papers, |
One of his clients was [[Winthrop Sargent]], first governor of Mississippi Territory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winthrop Sargent Papers, |url=https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0261?terms=civil%20war |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=www.masshist.org}}</ref> |
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andrew Jackson extortion attempts<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mann |first=Barbara Alice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkrEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22jonathan+thompson%22+natchez&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWwOfD7vmPAxUuMEQIHZVcNK84FBDoAXoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=%22jonathan%20thompson%22%20natchez&f=false |title=President by Massacre: Indian-Killing for Political Gain |date=2019-08-27 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-4408-6188-8 |language=en}}</ref> |
andrew Jackson extortion attempts<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mann |first=Barbara Alice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkrEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22jonathan+thompson%22+natchez&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWwOfD7vmPAxUuMEQIHZVcNK84FBDoAXoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=%22jonathan%20thompson%22%20natchez&f=false |title=President by Massacre: Indian-Killing for Political Gain |date=2019-08-27 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-4408-6188-8 |language=en}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 01:11, 16 November 2025
American lawyer (1770–1812)
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Jonathan Thompson |
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| Born | December 1782 (1782-12)
Massachusetts |
| Died | August 1823(1823-08-00) (aged 40)
Mississippi |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Jonathan Thompson was a lawyer and land speculator of the Natchez District in Mississippi in the territorial and early statehood period. He traveled to Mississippi with Aaron Burr in 1805 in the flotilla now associated with the Burr conspiracy. Considered a Natchez nabob, he is best remembered today for his ownership of what are now historic antebellum mansions, for helping his client Harman Blannerhasset attempt to obtain repayment from Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson for expenditures made during the Burr conspiracy, and for dying with his family in the 1823 Natchez yellow fever outbreak.
Thompson traveled to Mississippi in the winter of 1806–07, in company with Aaron Burr as part of what is known as the Burr expedition.
Spanish grants were confirmed to him in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, one on the site of present-day Ferriday.[2]
He was the second owner of Arlington in Natchez, buying it from Lewis Evans, and selling it to the Whites.[3]
One of his clients was Winthrop Sargent, first governor of Mississippi Territory.[4]
andrew Jackson extortion attempts[5]
Allegedly threatened to hang attorney Jonathan Thompson “to the first tree, or highest tree” for pursuing legal action regarding Aaron Burr and/or Harman Blennerhassett‘s debts.[6][7]
Jackson and John Coffee managed to address some unfinished business relating to the Burr conspiracy while on the road under the aegis of the U.S. Army. Harman Blennerhassett was suing Aaron Burr to get back funds invested, and Jackson was listed as a garnishee, and he was threatened with blackmail by Blannerhassett’s lawyer Thompson. According to the editors of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, “While in Mississippi on the Natchez expedition, both Jackson and John Coffee filed depositions with the [Adams County] court on March 25, 1813…The case was continued from the April to the October session, 1813, with Jackson again summoned. Then preparing to leave with his troops for the Creek country and unable to attend, Jackson filed another deposition, supported by a statement from William Eastin.”[8]
He became a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814.[9]
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He may have been responsible for the historically significant Hawthorne—the house was possibly built “as early as 1818. Thompson and his family died of yellow fever in 1825 while they prepared to leave the city to stay at Hawthorne.”[10]
1819 Natchez Academy[11]
episcopal church 1822[12]
death at Green Leaves[13]
1823 – black vomit[14]
estate sale[15]
1826 diseases of the southern states[16]
- ^ Concordia Parish. Concordia Parish Resources and Facilities. Baton Rouge: Concordia Parish Development Board. pp. 10, 94.
- ^ Gomez, Kelly (January 15, 2019). “National Register Home in Mississippi Left to Crumble -“. theforgottensouth.com. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ “Winthrop Sargent Papers, 1771–1948”. www.masshist.org. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Mann, Barbara Alice (August 27, 2019). President by Massacre: Indian-Killing for Political Gain. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-4408-6188-8.
- ^ “A brief and impartial history of the life and actions of Andrew Jackson / By a free man”. HathiTrust. p. 20. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ “The undersigned Commissioners”. Natchez Gazette. April 22, 1826. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ Jackson, Andrew; Moser, Harold D. (1980). The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee press. pp. 308–309. ISBN 978-0-87049-219-8.
- ^ “Jonathan Thompson | American Antiquarian Society”. www.americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Steven, Brooke (1999). The Majesty of Natchez. Pelican Publishing. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-4556-0816-4.
- ^ Mississippi (1824). The Revised Code of the Laws of Mississippi, in which are Comprised All Such Acts of the General Assembly, of a Public Nature, as Were in Force at the End of the Year, 1823; with a General Index. F. Baker.
- ^ The Gospel Advocate. J. W. Ingraham. 1822.
- ^ Van Court, Catharine (1937). In old Natchez. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran.
- ^ Roche, René La (1855). Yellow Fever, Considered in Its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and Therapeutical Relations: Including a Sketch of the Disease as it Has Occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an Examination of the Connections Between it and the Fevers Known Under the Same Name in Other Parts of Temperate, as Well as in Tropical, Regions. Blanchard and Lea.
- ^ Chisolm, J. Julian (1972). History of the First Presbyterian Church of Natchez, Mississippi. McDonald’s Printers & Publishers.
- ^ Colhoun, Samuel (1826). The Medical Recorder. J. Webster.
