Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Tompson, Edward

clergyman, was born April 20, 1665, in Boston, Mass. He taught for several years at Newbury, and from 1696 until his death was pastor of the church at Marshfield, Mass. His last sermons, entitled Heaven the Best Country, were published in 1712. He died March 10, 1715, in Marshfield, Mass.

TONE, WILLIAM THEOBALD WOLFE, soldier, author, was born April 29, 1791, in Ireland. After serving in the French army he came to America in 1816 and was in the artillery service of the United States for ten years. He died Oct. 10, 1828, in New York city.

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