Entry Personal Name

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 14831

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20200604172800.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 790913n| azannaabn a aaa

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: n 79081377
• Canceled/invalid LC control number: nr 93039436

024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER

• Standard number or code: 3270753
• Source: viaf

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca00313919

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: DLC
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: PP
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: CSmH
• Modifying agency: OCoLC
• Modifying agency: DeU
• Modifying agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: HU

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Birth date: 1729-11-29
• Death date: 1824-08-16
• Source of date scheme: edtf

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Thomson, Charles,
• Dates associated with a name: 1729-1824

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of birth: Maghera (Londonderry, Northern Ireland)
• Place of death: Philadelphia (Pa.)
• Associated country: United States
• Associated country: Northern Ireland
• Place of residence/headquarters: New Castle (Del.)
• Place of residence/headquarters: Philadelphia (Pa.)
• Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Politics
• Field of activity: Legislature
• Field of activity: Government

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Delaware Indians
• Field of activity: Translating and interpreting
• Field of activity: Latin language--Study and teaching
• Field of activity: Classical philology
• Source of term: lcsh

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Friends' Public School (Philadelphia, Pa.)

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: American Philosophical Society
• Associated group: Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania
• Associated group: Sons of Liberty
• Associated group: United States. Continental Congress
• Source of term: naf

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Classicists
• Source of term: lcdgt

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Congressional secretaries
• Occupation: Latin teachers
• Occupation: Translators
• Occupation: Merchants
• Occupation: Founding Fathers of the United States
• Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

• Gender: Males
• Source of term: lcdgt

377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE

• Language code: eng
• Language code: lat
• Language code: grc

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Thompson, Charles,
• Dates associated with a name: 1729-1824

500 1# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Colleague:
• Personal name: Dickinson, John,
• Dates associated with a name: 1732-1808

500 3# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Family:
• Personal name: Thomson (Family : Thomson, Charles,
• Dates associated with a name: 1729-1824)

510 1# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME

• Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: United States.
• Subordinate unit: Continental Congress.
• Subordinate unit: Secretary

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: His An enquiry into the cause of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians, 1759

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: The septuagint Bible, 1954:
• Information found: surrogate t.p. (Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress of the United States of America, 1774-1789)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: United States. Continental Congress. Rules and articles, for the better government of the troops raised, or to be raised, and kept in pay by and at the joint expence of the twelve united English colonies of North-America, 1775:
• Information found: p. 16 (Charles Thompson, Secretary)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Dict. of Amer. biogr.
• Information found: (Thomson, Charles; b. Nov. 29, 1729, d. Aug. 16, 1824; secretary of the Continental Congress; b. County Derry, Ireland; came to America with siblings as an orphan at age 10)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Natl. cycl. of Amer. biogr.
• Information found: (Thomson, Charles)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Who's who in the Amer. Revolution
• Information found: (Thomson, Charles; 1729-1824; Congressional secretary, merchant; served as secretary of the Continental and Confederation congresses throughout their existences, 1774-1789)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: VIAF, July 19, 2016
• Information found: (VIAF ID=3270753: Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: American National Biography Online, May 6, 2016
• Information found: (Charles Thomson, Philadelphia revolutionary leader and secretary of the Continental Congress; born in Gorteade, parish of Maghera, County Londonderry, Ireland; son of John Thomson; upon the death of his mother in 1739, Charles emigrated with his father and siblings; his father died at sea, and the children were dispersed upon reaching New Castle, Delaware; around 1743, Charles entered Francis Alison's academy at New London, Pa; 1750, became Latin tutor at Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Academy; 1755 became head of Latin at the Friends' Public School in Philadelphia; served as secretary to the Delaware Indians in their meetings with colonial officials at Easton in 1757 and 1758; a leader of Philadelphia's Sons of Liberty; aligned self politically and personally with John Dickinson; worked briefly in manufacturing in New Jersey but returned to Philadelphia by 1772 and was a leader of resistance to the landing of the East India Company; 1774-1780 was secretary to the First and Second Continental Congresses and the Confederation Congress; left public life in 1789 and translated the Septuagint and New Testament; died at his estate, "Harriton" near Philadelphia)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: The life of Charles Thomson: secretary of the Continental congress and translator of the Bible from Greek, 1900:
• Information found: page 18 (John Thomson having been left a widower with six small children, William, Matthew, Alexander, Charles, John and Mary ... set sail from Ireland to America in 1739, the father died before they landed and they were left to the mercy of the ship's captain) page 20 (On landing at New Castle, the Thomson children were separated; William drifted to South Carolina, Alexander became a prosperous farmer near New Castle, and a number of descendents of his son, John Thomson, are still living in Newark, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Charles resided for a time with the family of a blacksmith at New Castle, Delaware)

942 ## - KOHA INTERNAL USE

• Koha auth type: PERSO_NAME