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Tompkins #1 family of New York

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  Jonathan Griffin Tompkins (1736-1823) — also known as Jonathan G. Tompkins — of Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Eastchester, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., June 8, 1736. Member of New York state assembly from Westchester County, 1780-82, 1785-88, 1790-92. Died in White Plains, Westchester County, N.Y., May 22, 1823 (age 86 years, 348 days). Interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, White Plains, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Joshua Tompkins and Sarah (Ogden) Tompkins; married 1758 to Sarah Ann Hyatt; father of Caleb Tompkins and Daniel D. Tompkins (who married Hannah Tompkins); grandfather of Mangle Minthorne Tompkins; second great-grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry.
  Political family: Tompkins #1 family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Caleb Tompkins (1759-1846) — of Westchester County, N.Y. Born in White Plains, Westchester County, N.Y., December 22, 1759. Member of New York state assembly from Westchester County, 1804-06; U.S. Representative from New York 3rd District, 1817-21. Slaveowner. Died in Scarsdale, Westchester County, N.Y., January 1, 1846 (age 86 years, 10 days). Interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, White Plains, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Jonathan Griffin Tompkins and Sarah Ann (Hyatt) Tompkins; brother of Daniel D. Tompkins (who married Hannah Tompkins); married to Elizabeth P. Moore; uncle of Mangle Minthorne Tompkins; great-granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry; fourth cousin of Martin Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen Hiram Keeler and Erastus DeWitt Benedict.
  Political family: Tompkins #1 family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
Daniel D. Tompkins Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825) — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Scarsdale, Westchester County, N.Y., June 21, 1774. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1802-03; U.S. Representative from New York 3rd District, 1805; Governor of New York, 1807-17; Vice President of the United States, 1817-25; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1821. Presbyterian or Christian Reformed. Member, Freemasons. Died in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., June 11, 1825 (age 50 years, 355 days). Entombed at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Jonathan Griffin Tompkins and Sarah Ann (Hyatt) Tompkins; brother of Caleb Tompkins; married, February 20, 1798, to Hannah Minthorne; father of Arietta Minthorne Tompkins (who married Gilbert Livingston Thompson) and Mangle Minthorne Tompkins; grandfather of Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (who married Theodore Chardavoyne Vermilye); great-grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry; fourth cousin of Martin Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen Hiram Keeler and Erastus DeWitt Benedict.
  Political families: Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York; Tompkins #1 family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Tompkins County, N.Y. is named for him.
  Tompkins Square Park, in Manhattan, New York, is named for him.
  Politician named for him: Daniel D. T. Farnsworth
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: New York Red Book 1896
  Hannah Tompkins (1781-1829) — also known as Hannah Minthorne — Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., August 28, 1781. First Lady of New York, 1807-17; Second Lady of the United States, 1817-25. Female. Died in Tompkinsville (now part of Staten Island), Richmond County, N.Y., February 18, 1829 (age 47 years, 174 days). Interment at St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Relatives: Daughter of Mangle Minthorne and Aryet (Constable) Minthorne; married, February 20, 1798, to Daniel D. Tompkins (son of Jonathan Griffin Tompkins; brother of Caleb Tompkins); mother of Arietta Minthorne Tompkins (who married Gilbert Livingston Thompson) and Mangle Minthorne Tompkins; grandmother of Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (who married Theodore Chardavoyne Vermilye); great-grandmother of Guy Vernor Henry.
  Political families: Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York; Tompkins #1 family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Gilbert Livingston Thompson (1796-1874) — also known as Gilbert L. Thompson — Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 20, 1796. U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1821; Mexico, 1844. Died July 4, 1874 (age 78 years, 14 days). Interment at St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Smith Thompson and Sarah (Livingston) Thompson; married, June 17, 1818, to Arietta Minthorne (Tompkins) Tompkins (daughter of Daniel D. Tompkins and Hannah Tompkins); married, February 23, 1839, to Mary Ann Tolley Worthington Dorsey (daughter of Thomas Beale Dorsey); grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry; great-grandson of Henry Gilbert Livingston; great-grandnephew of Robert Gilbert Livingston; second great-grandson of Gilbert Livingston; second great-grandnephew of John Livingston and Robert Livingston (1688-1775); third great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder; third great-grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin of Jacob Livingston Sutherland; first cousin twice removed of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin five times removed of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Enos Thompson Throop, George Bliss Throop, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) and Israel Thompson Hatch; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin thrice removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; third cousin of Israel Dodd Condit, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin once removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); third cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, James Parker, Eugene Lamb Richards Jr., Mary Mather Hooker, Montgomery Schuyler Jr. and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; fourth cousin of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II and John Jacob Astor III; fourth cousin once removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker, Philip N. Schuyler, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Jacob Clark Pike, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870).
  Political families: Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York; Tompkins #1 family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Mangle Minthorne Tompkins (1807-1881) — also known as Minthorne Tompkins — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Westchester County, N.Y., December 26, 1807. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1833-34; member of New York state senate 1st District, 1840-41; resigned 1841; Free Soil Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, 1852; Presidential Elector for New York, 1856; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 5, 1881 (age 73 years, 161 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel D. Tompkins and Hannah Tompkins; married to Susan Montgomery Lawson; nephew of Caleb Tompkins; grandson of Jonathan Griffin Tompkins; granduncle of Guy Vernor Henry; fourth cousin once removed of Martin Keeler.
  Political families: Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York; Tompkins #1 family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Minthorne Street, in Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Theodore Chardavoyne Vermilye (1824-1879) — also known as Theodore C. Vermilye — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in New York, December 18, 1824. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Richmond County, 1860. Killed, when he was thrown from a horsedrawn carriage, which had collided with another vehicle, in Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., November 13, 1879 (age 54 years, 330 days). Interment at Silver Mount Cemetery, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Mary (Hoagland) Vermilye and Thomas B. Vermilye; married, May 24, 1848, to Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (granddaughter of Daniel D. Tompkins and Hannah Tompkins).
  Political family: Tompkins #1 family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Guy Vernor Henry (1839-1899) — also known as Guy V. Henry — Born in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Ark., March 9, 1839. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal of Honor in 1893 for action at the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of Puerto Rico. Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., October 27, 1899 (age 60 years, 232 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Seton Henry and Arietta Livingston (Thompson) Henry; married 1864 to Frances Wharton; married to Julia McNair; grandson of John Vernon Henry and Gilbert Livingston Thompson; grandnephew of Mangle Minthorne Tompkins; great-grandson of Smith Thompson, Daniel D. Tompkins and Hannah Tompkins; great-grandnephew of Caleb Tompkins; second great-grandson of Jonathan Griffin Tompkins; third great-grandson of Henry Gilbert Livingston; third great-grandnephew of Robert Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John Livingston and Robert Livingston (1688-1775); fifth great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin twice removed of Jacob Livingston Sutherland; first cousin four times removed of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Enos Thompson Throop, George Bliss Throop, Hamilton Fish and Israel Thompson Hatch; second cousin four times removed of Peter Robert Livingston, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Israel Dodd Condit, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay and Charles Ludlow Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991).
  Political families: Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York; Tompkins #1 family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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