The Count Rumford birthplace in Woburn, MassachusettsThis is the second blog post on a Loyalist ancestor I have written this year for the 250th anniversary of the United States. Benjamin Thompson is my first cousin, six generations removed. His mother, Ruth Simonds (b. 1730) is the sister of my 5th great grandfather, Caleb Simonds (1720 - 1811). Benjamin Thompson was born 26 March 1753 in Woburn, Massachusetts in the house of his grandfather, Captain Ebenezer Thompson. He attended the local schools until he was eleven years old, when he was sent (along with his young friend and neighbor Loammi Baldwin)...