Jack Bathrick wrote: > Mary, > > Didn't know whether you had this passage from Bagg's "The Pioneers of > Utica"(1877): > > Page 132 > "A border resident of this era was Levi Thomas, who succeed- > ed Thomas Norton in the tavern on the New Hartford road > situated where Mrs. Butterficld now lives. There he kept public: > house for many years, occasionally letting it to other parties. > About 1826 he moved into the village, exchanging his property > with Justin Cooley, for the lot whereon once stood the Central > Hotel, and where now stands the Parker Block. He afterwards > lived on Breese street in a part of the house that had previously > been the Methodist meeting house of the New Hartford road, > and which he put in motion toward its new resting place. He > was latterly a brickmaker and farmer. Of his five sons, George > was the last who retained a home in Utica." > > Regards,JB Thanks so very much. Yes, it's I think the one piece of printed evidence about Levi. I have been trying for years to find the evidence to link him up with the family of Lovewell Thomas in Russell (Westfield) Mass., but Levi called himself 'of Paris' from the very first land deeds he was involved in. I think he ran away from home ... we all love the story of the Methodist Meeting House, which in fact we had as a family story as well. Many thanks for looking that up for me. Mary