INFORMATION: (R) 977.4D4/B9cj 1819-1892 Court & Other Records by C. Burton, page 125. Bradley H. Thompson arrested - 1850 for driving a horse faster than 6 miles per hour. July 16, 1850. Mayor's court. (R) 977.4D4/P18/c: Early Days in Detroit by General Friend Palmer of Detroit, 1906. The Jail in front of which Simmons was hanged, was an imposing stone structure, with a papola containing a bell. This jail has often been described: it occupied the present site of the public library. I was inside of this jail quite often, visiting my chum and schoolmate, Brad Thompson, son of Sheriff Thompson, the then keeper, who, with his family, used the living rooms. Over these were two rooms used to confine delinquent debtors. I used to be quite interested in these two rooms. In one of them an inmate had cut his throat, the blood from the wound bespatering the walls and leaving a stain which, it seems, was never gotten rid of. In this room was a large coffee mill, fastened securely to a wooden bench so that it would not wobble. Brad Thompson used to say that the mill went like fun every night, operated by the spirit of the suicide I have mentioned. (Sheriff John M. Wilson succeeded Sherriff Thompson) Nego riot occured Jun 1833.

MARRIAGE:Ste.Anne parish records 1842-1874 microfilm roll from Det Archdiocese held at Detroit Public Library Burton Collection - page 18. From DSGR Book Ste Anne du Detroit page 152 record #1827. Bradley H. Thomson age 25 yrs. son of Danielis Thomson and Susannae Bradley married 14 Mar 1844 Eleanora St. Amour age 22 yrs. daughter of Joannis St. Amour and Josephinae Leduque. Bride and Groom from Detroit. A dispensation was granted from the impediament caused by one of the couple not being Catholic (acatholicum & catholicam).

OBITUARY:Det Free Press 26 Sep 1879, 1819-1879 Death of Bradley Thompson. Bradley Thompson for many years a well known citizen of Detroit, died Wednesday nite in the asylum for insane at Pontiac, where, and at Kalamazoo, he had spent the last two or three yrs. hopelessly insane. Mr. Thompson came to Detroit in 1824, then a child of 5 yrs. Afterward his father, Daniel Thompson was sheriff. A few years ago he filled a like position under the administration of John Patton. He was a member of the Brady Guards, and during his long residence here he was a popular and well esteemed citizen. He was 61 yrs old at the time of his death. His family were with him in his last hours, and it is believed that he recognized them and realized that death had come to release him from his bondage.
BAPTISM: As Adult SS Peter & Paul Catholic Church (Name Henry Hemmingway Thompson b:1816 (month of July) Was buried in Cath Cem so would have been bpt. Date of Bpt 20 Oct 1877 Sponsores to Baptism: Phillippas Van Dyk and Rosa Maria Thompson.