original board including John Thomson. The Newark Academy would eventually become the University of Delaware. John Thomson may have also contributed to the founding of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Apparently while a missionary at the Buffalo Settlement in Virginia, he began a school for young men. Some argue that this is the school from which Hampden-Sydney sprang. John Thomson's son-in-law, Richard Sankey (sometimes written Zanchey) sat on the original board. This may give credence to the claims that John Thomson's efforts and school led to the founding of the college. Works The following are known works by John Thomson An Examination and Refutation of Mr. Tennet's Remarks Upon A Protestation The Doctrine of Convictions Set in a Clear Light The Explication of the Shorter Catechism The Government of the Church of Christ One anonymous work is now usually credited to John Thomson The Poor Orphans Legacy References 1690 births 1753 deaths American Presbyterian ministers 18th-century Presbyterian ministers Virginia colonial people People of colonial North Carolina Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) People of colonial Pennsylvania American people of Scotch-Irish descent 18th-century American clergy