Hi Natalie - There are Scads of Thomas lines in the Chester/Delaware county area! That is what makes it so aggravating. There are a couple of Davids in my tree, too. My Thomases did not take David or Davis as their last names, we are all still Thomases. And they are not in the Berks Thomas line, either. But I have seen a lot of info on them online. Also - did you ever consider that maybe Nancy remarried David Davis and adopted David Thomas' children? Providence Township was in Chester County back in the 1700s - Chester County and Delaware County were one county - now it is part of Delaware County, but back then it was eventually either Upper and Lower, or Upper and Nether. (Hence the list is "Old" Chester!) Where did you get your info? I have record of a David Thomas in Philadelphia who was an executor of a will in 1717. What kind of record did you find and where did you find it? BTW we can take this off list if y'all think it isn't helping anyone, lol. Lynn On 6/20/06, Natalie Burrows <ndburrows@verizon.net> wrote: > > Lynn -- I, too, am interested in Thomases. What dates are you looking > for? > I have two possible Thomas families: one would be relatives (brothers, > etc.) > of the David (ap) Thomas who died in Philadephia county in 1717/1718, > leaving sons Thomas (kept the Thomas surname but had no children), Samson > David, Richard David and John David as well as daughters. These children > changed the surname to David/Davis. They most likely lived in the > Providence > area and probably came from Chester County before that. > The other Thomas family is that connected to Nancy Thomas who married > David Davis in late 1700's in either Berks or Northumberland County. She > died between 1830 and 1840 in what was then Mercer county. > Thanks for any connection that you may find to your own family! > Natalie > ndburrows@verizon.net > >