NINTH GENERATION

494. Nathan THOMPSON was born on 28 Aug 1762 in , , New Jersey. He died on 10 Oct 1854 in , Jackson Co., North Carolina. He was buried in , Jackson Co., North Carolina. He has reference number 494. A Nathan Thompson enlisted on 20 May 1777 for three years in Major John
Baptista Ashe's Company of the First North Carolina Battalion, commanded by
Colonel Thomas Clark. A Nathan Thompson was aprivate in the 10th Regiment,
Wilsn's company, and was taken prisoner on 14 April 1779. These references may
or may not refer to our Nathan Thompson.
According to Bertha Ida Capell Lowry (1915-), William Charles Myers
(1872-1961) claimed that Nathan Thompson was of English descent and had arrived
in North Carolina as a young man. At the age of twenty-two, he migrated to
Lincoln County, North Carolina. He began his preaching as a Methodist minister
at the age of twenty-four and was ninety-seven when he died (he was, however,
ninety-two when he died as shown in the fmaily Bible). Nathan preached for
seventy-five years and fought in the American Revolution. He was married to Esther BLACK on 19 Aug 1785 in , Lincoln co., North Carolina.

495. Esther BLACK was born on 17 Jan 1769 in , Lincoln co., North Carolina. She died between 1835 and 1840 in , Jackson Co., North Carolina. She has reference number 495. According to Bertha Ida Capell Lowry (1915-), William Charles Myers
(1872-1961) claimed that Esther Black was one-quarter Cherokee and
three-quarters Dutch.

Marie A. Anthony to Thomas Kryssbek, 30 May 1991: "The tradition as stated by
one of the Chambers was that Esther Black was a full-blooded Cherokee. And one
of the Anthonys told us a couple of years ago that when the Cherokees were
rounded up to be sent to Oklahoma that Esther was spared because they convinced
the authorities that she was 'Black dutch.'" During a telephone conversation
on 8 June 1991, Marie A. Anthony said that she did not know who had said that
Esther was Black Dutch or which of the Chambers said that Esther was a
full-blood Cherokee.
During a telephone conversation with Lamon Chambers on 1 November 1991, he
said that when Esther Black died, the people in the Methodist congregation would
not allow her to be buried in the church cemetery because she was a heathen.
Instead she was buried under an oak tree on John McClure's place. The location
of the grave has been lost. Children were:

i. Elizabeth THOMPSON was born on 23 Feb 1786 in , Lincoln co., North Carolina. She died after 26 Jul 1879 in Forney's Creek, Swain Co., North Carolina.
ii. Mary_"Polly" D. THOMPSON was born on 18 Dec 1787 in , Lincoln co., North Carolina. She died on 10 Apr 1832 in , Haywood Co., North Carolina.
iii. Samuel THOMPSON was born on 15 Mar 179 in , Rutherford Co., North Carolina.
iv. Thomas THOMPSON was born on 6 May 1792.
247 v. Esther Eliza THOMPSON.