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From: "Anita Schmidt" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Thomas
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:43:21 -0800
References: <000001c2b5fc$54e36550$158844c8@Worth>


You are right about the Welsh in VA. We had Minor Winn, Wrights, and Minors
all Welsh in Fauquier and Culpeper.

Anita Schmidt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Worth S. Anderson" <>
To: <>
Sent: 06 January, 2003 7:24 PM
Subject: RE: [GERMANNA] Thomas


> Evan Thomas is an awfully Welsh name. There was heavy Welsh Quaker
> settlement in Pennsylvania, and Henshaw in his introduction to the
> section on Hopewell Monthly Meeting states, "In about the year 1730
> Alexander Ross, Morgan Bryan, and other Friends, secured a grant of land
> (a tract of 100,000 acres) on the Opeckon River and its vicinity to be
> settled by a large number of Friends from Pennsylvania, some of whom had
> already migrated to the Valley of the Monocacy, in Maryland."
>
> Furthermore, Cecil O'Dell, "Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia"
> (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Pub. Co., 1995), p. 161 states, "Evan
> Thomas was born (1685 c.) in Wales and came to Philadelphia County,
> Pennsylvania about 1719. Evan and his wife Catherine moved to Goshen
> Monthly Meeting in Chester County, Pennsylvania (present-day Delaware
> County). . . . Sometime after 1726 and before 18 October 1734, Evan
> moved to Virginia when he had "1,040 acres on west side of Opechon"
> surveyed. . . ."
>
> There is plenty more on the Frederick Co. Thomases -- too much to retype
> here. I suggest ordering the book through interlibrary loan. But, to
> answer your query, the Frederick Co. Thomases you found in the Quaker
> records probably are not connected to the Germanna family.
>
> Worth S. Anderson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marsha H. Moses [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:33 PM
> To:
> Subject: [GERMANNA] Thomas
>
> John, I have spent a little time this morning looking at information
> connected with your below message.
>
> In your note 104 it is stated: Michael Thomas, youngest son of the 1717
> immigrants, John and Anna Maria Thomas, is said to have married, as his
> second wife, Eve Susannah Margaret Hart. Among the later Harts was
> Valentine Hart, probably a German name.
>
> >From this I assume that John Thomas was one of the original 1717
> immigrants. Correct? I do not seem to be able to find a list of the
> 1717 immigrants.
>
> My sudden new burning interest is a Thomas family who seems to have been
> Quaker or have married into Quaker families in the Frederick Co/
> Rockingham Co area.
>
> For example: 1770, 4, 2 Alice Thomas (formerly Hiat/Hyatt) reportedly
> married contrary to faith to John Thomas; disowned; reinstated 5-5-1777.
> From Henshaw's Volume VI (Hopewell Monthly Meeting)
>
> or: Mary, daughter of Evan Thomas, of Opeckon, Frederick Co, Va.
> Married John Hiatt
>
> or: Abel Thomas reportedly married to Mary Heaton (Abel is later
> disowned for marrying out of union)
>
> Is there reason to believe that these Thomas family members were
> descendents of the John and Anna Maria THomas that you mention? Marsha
> in WV
>
> John Blankenbaker wrote:
>
> >
> > Elizabeth Railsback was a Thomas, the daughter of John Thomas. Notice
> the
> > sponsors at the baptism. Jacob Blankenbaker had married a sister of
> > Elizabeth Railsback. Dorothea's mother was a sister-in-law of Anna
> > Margaret Thomas. Maria Zimmerman was probably the daughter of John
> > Zimmerman and Ursula Blankenbaker. All of the Thomases have a
> Blankenbaker
> > ancestor, Anna Maria Blankenbaker.
> >
> > John Blankenbaker
> > www.germanna.com
>
>
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