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Major Jabez Thompson:
Major Jabez Thompson was the highest ranking officer of the group which marched from the old Town of Derby. Thompson appears to have lived in the Oxford area, as there are several records which indicate an early Oxford residence.
There is a record of Jabez Thompson being admitted to the Oxford Congregational Church on March 25, 1750. In addition, he is believed to have been buried in the Hawkins Cemetery.
Thompson held the highest position among the Lexington Alarm contingent from the town of Derby, with three captains and 29 other men who ranked below him.
He also served in First Regiment later in 1775, under General David Wooster, of Derby. On December 11, 1775, the Derby Town meeting named Col. Jabez Thompson to the Committee of Inspection. Apparently Thompson had come to the area at least for the winter, and he served on the committee which oversaw the movements of any suspected Tories in the area.
However, he again returned to active military service, and his name appears on the rolls of those killed in retreat from New York. The list cites Lt. Colonel Jabez Thompson of Derby as killed in New York on September 15, 1776.Captain Thomas Clark:
Captain Thomas Clark commanded one of the three units which went from Derby to the relief of Boston. Clark is also believed to have resided in the area which later became Oxford. He is buried in the Oxford Congregational Cemetery on Governor's Hill Road. Other Oxford records indicate he was married three times in Oxford, first to Susannah, and following her death to Eunice Riggs on February 14,1769. The second marriage ended upon the death of Eunice, and he again married, this time to Mrs. Hannah Curtiss on January 28,1795, who applied for admission to the Oxford Congregational Church on January 16, 1757, and died on October 3, 1803.
Thus, at the time of Clark's death in Oxford on April 5, 18l1, at the age of 82, he had outlived three wives, despite his active military service in the American Revolution. When he died, he had been a member of the Oxford church
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