Buried on the family farm on Ivy’s Creek, seven miles west of Charlottesville.

Will of Waddy Thompson of Albemarle. 76
Dated 6th March, 1801.
Recorded in Albemarle, 1st June, 1801.

Wife, Mary, youngest daughters, Ann Lewis Grafton, Mary Poindexter, Susanna Thomson, Mildred Thomson, and Judith Poindexter; granddaughter, Mary Lewis Slaughter; son, Nelson Thomson, deceased; daughter, Sarah Lewis, wife of John Lewis; daughter, Elizabeth; sons, David Thomson, Anderson Thomson; Waddy Thomson; brother-in-law, Nicholas Lewis; son-in-law, James Poindexter.

Note: No record of Sarah (Thompson?) Lewis in TMSI database.

Waddy Thompson

Of the first known Waddy Thomson, grandson of Robert of New Kent, a fairly complete record is obtainable. He was born in Hanover county, Virginia, about 1725 and died in Albemarle county, of the same state, in 1801. His first wife was Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of Nelson Anderson, of Hanover. In the earliest records of Louisa county we find numerous allusions to this Waddy Thomson, who was a justice of the Peace there, and a member of the Louisa Committee of Safety. On the death of his first wife, he married Mary, daughter of Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane (Meriwether) Lewis, of "Belvoir," Albemarle county, Virginia, and widow of Samuel Cobbs, of Louisa county.

Waddy and Mary (Lewis) Thomson, with their family, removed from Louisa to Albemarle "where he was considered a man of high public esteem and was referred to for his fine judgment and probity, as evinced by the frequency with which his name appears in the family papers of his wide circle of friends and neighbors." [History of Albemarle County] 398

^ISSUE: **From DMT: 593
Nelson, m. Sarah Kerr;
David, b. Louisa Co. VA, d. Woodford Co. KY;
Anderson , m. Ann Anderson;
Waddy, m1. Anderson, VA, m2. Ormsby, VA;
Susanna, d. 1847, Albemarle County, VA, m1. David Rodes, m2. James Kerr;
Elizabeth;
Sarah, m. John Lewis.

^ISSUE: **From STLA: 183
Nelson, b. 1754 Hanover Co. VA, d. 3 Feb 1798 VA;
Anderson b. 4 Sep 1755, d. abt 1835, WD 20 Jan 1834, WP 28 Jun 1835 Bedford County, VA.;
Waddy;
Sarah;
David, Rev., b. 1759, d. aft 1786;
Elizabeth;
Susan;
Lucy.

^ISSUE: From DMR:594
Rev. David (1745),
Elizabeth (1747),
Sarah (1749),
Anderson (1753),
Nelson (1753),
Waddy (1757)

History of Albemarle County
Nelson
Anderson
David
Waddy
Susan
Lucy

“[Nelson] married his cousin, Ann Waddy and these left an only child, Mary Garland Thomson, who married William Nelson." 391

Birth
Birth dates for Mary range from 1730 to 1735. She was not mentioned in the 27 Apr 1734 gift of slaves from her father, so the Society is tentatively accepting a date of about 1735.

See DAR 1507 for another son, John

A since-deleted Findagrave Memorial states she was born 1735 d. 31 May 1813 in Albemarle County.

Mary Lewis, wife, first, of Samuel Cobbs and second of Waddy Thomson, died in Albemarle County in 1813. Her Cobbs children were Robert Cobbs, who married Ann Poindexter, descendant of whom were numerous in Virginia and the South; Judith Cobbs, who died young; and Jane Cobbs, wife of John Waddy, the only child of whom was Samuel Waddy, who was reared in the household of his maternal grandmother.

^MARR2 **From ?; JBC has May 1767.

Marriage contract, 12th December, 1766, between Waddy Thompson of Louisa; Mary Cobbs of Albemarle, and William Lewis, both been formerly married. Recorded in Albemarle, May, 1767.

DMT
Ann,
Mary,
Waddy d. bef 6 Feb 1832;
Robert Lewis.

GCD 391
1. Ann
2, Susanna
3. Judith
4. Mary
5. Mildred b. 22 Sep 1775 d. 9 Oct 1829 m. 1897 ZDr. James Scott.