Sorry, I meant the below to be personal to Sue.....It is so easy to not realize that the reply function goes back to the list rather than the person one thinks that one is addressing! I have mail lists that do different things and I just sometimes forget to double check....at least I was saying all good things. I was so surprised when I got a copy of my note to Sue....and then I realized! marsha moses wrote: > Thanks, Sue....I am slowly going through my Newberry "stuff"....And > the books with the land platts are really wonderful! Remind me of who > your people are...Wait I have it in my "stuff" > Cook, Hollinsworth, Lewis, Henderson, Wells and Wright. So some of > your people would have been right there with these Thomas men! And > your Cooks are likely to have been near my McKinseys near > Waynesville. Did you meet Mr. Cook from Waynesville, Ohio at the > reunion? I got his business card and hope to to to buy tomatoes from > him in July or August. He still lives on the orginal Cook farm---I am > thinking that he is 5th generation on the farm. He does organic > gardening there. Do you remember him? I will point him out in the > photo if you don't. I think that my good buddy Phil Hawkins who > descends from a Hawkins family from SC that moved to Ohio is going to > invite him to his Hawkins reunion this summer. The reunion is going > to reap great dividends in the end! It is so much more fun to e-mail > someone you grew to be really fond of in the short time that we were > all together. > > I am really hoping to go and stay in the B&B before the lady sells it > one time. I would like to take photos of where the land of the > McKinseys was and do some more research in the courthouse and > library. It was a really fun trip, huh? > > Wyatt, Susan D. wrote: > >>Good job, Marsha! This is so interesting. Thanks for sharing. >> >>Thanks, >>Sue Wyatt >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marsha >>moses >>Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:56 PM >>To: bush river mail list >>Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Thomas families who moved to Miami >>County,Ohio >> >>I had asked a question yesterday on a couple of mail lists...some of you >> >>did not hear the original question. But it had to do with the Thomas >>family that is found in Newberry County, SC before the mass migration of >> >>the Quaker families out of the south and into Indiana and Ohio in the >>first decade of the 1800's. >>Well, I managed to answer my own question today. I did not find >>Thomastown, Ohio on the map. But I did figure out where the Thomas >>families from Bush River moved in the early 1800's in Ohio. So I am >>guessing that Thomastown would have been somewhere in the western part >>of Miami County, Ohio. On page 351 of the Newberry Annals book the >>author says: >> >> >> >>>Of the Thomases who emigrated, several are not mentioned. They were >>>Abel, Isaac, John, William and Nehemiah.....the same may be said of >>>the Duncans who came here with them..... >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >>The 1810 census of Ohio is lost for most of the counties. So I did my >>looking on the 1820 census. All of these Thomas men are found in >>Randoph Township in Miami County, Ohio in the census. I feel that this >>is the right location because the only Nehemiah in all of Ohio is found >>in Randolph Township in Miami County, Ohio. >> >>Randolph Township does not still exist. But I was also able to solve >>that mystery: >> >> >> >>>The western part of the county, known as Randolph Township, lost its >>>name when it was broken up into townships. >>> >>> >> >> >> >>The Duncans seem to have been Isaac, Jesse, and Samuel Duncan and they >>settled in Union township according to the census of 1820. >> >>Union Township does exist today and it is the southern corner of the >>county on the west side. So it would have been just the southern part >>of what was originally Randolph Township. To see a map that explains >>that go to: >> >>http://www.tdn-net.com/genealogy/townships.htm >> >> >>By the way, Harriet was kind enough to correct my misinterpretation of >>who wrote this information in the Newberry Annals book. It was Mr. >>David Jones of Ohio who had been requested by Mr. John Chapman to write >>of the Newberry transplants in Ohio. The information was not from John >>Chapman who seemed to have remained in SC. >> >>I will write another e-mail or two sharing what I have found in >>information about Miami county Newberry transplants while trying to >>solve the mystery of Thomastown. >> >>Marsha Moses >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >>

Marsha Moses Been reading about the reunion wish I could have been there. Have been reading about Thomas but thought no relation until I read your messege about Mr Cook from Ohio. My Cooks went to Ohio Clinton ,County and if there is a Cook still there I would like to know more, Thanks Joyce, Indiana ----- Original Message ----- From: "marsha moses" <[email protected]> To: "bush river mail list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Thomas families who moved to Miami County, Ohio > Sorry, I meant the below to be personal to Sue.....It is so easy to not > realize that the reply function goes back to the list rather than the > person one thinks that one is addressing! I have mail lists that do > different things and I just sometimes forget to double check....at least > I was saying all good things. I was so surprised when I got a copy of > my note to Sue....and then I realized! > > marsha moses wrote: > >> Thanks, Sue....I am slowly going through my Newberry "stuff"....And >> the books with the land platts are really wonderful! Remind me of who >> your people are...Wait I have it in my "stuff" >> Cook, Hollinsworth, Lewis, Henderson, Wells and Wright. So some of >> your people would have been right there with these Thomas men! And >> your Cooks are likely to have been near my McKinseys near >> Waynesville. Did you meet Mr. Cook from Waynesville, Ohio at the >> reunion? I got his business card and hope to to to buy tomatoes from >> him in July or August. He still lives on the orginal Cook farm---I am >> thinking that he is 5th generation on the farm. He does organic >> gardening there. Do you remember him? I will point him out in the >> photo if you don't. I think that my good buddy Phil Hawkins who >> descends from a Hawkins family from SC that moved to Ohio is going to >> invite him to his Hawkins reunion this summer. The reunion is going >> to reap great dividends in the end! It is so much more fun to e-mail >> someone you grew to be really fond of in the short time that we were >> all together. >> >> I am really hoping to go and stay in the B&B before the lady sells it >> one time. I would like to take photos of where the land of the >> McKinseys was and do some more research in the courthouse and >> library. It was a really fun trip, huh? >> >> Wyatt, Susan D. wrote: >> >>>Good job, Marsha! This is so interesting. Thanks for sharing. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Sue Wyatt >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [email protected] >>>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marsha >>>moses >>>Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:56 PM >>>To: bush river mail list >>>Subject: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Thomas families who moved to Miami >>>County,Ohio >>> >>>I had asked a question yesterday on a couple of mail lists...some of you >>> >>>did not hear the original question. But it had to do with the Thomas >>>family that is found in Newberry County, SC before the mass migration of >>> >>>the Quaker families out of the south and into Indiana and Ohio in the >>>first decade of the 1800's. >>>Well, I managed to answer my own question today. I did not find >>>Thomastown, Ohio on the map. But I did figure out where the Thomas >>>families from Bush River moved in the early 1800's in Ohio. So I am >>>guessing that Thomastown would have been somewhere in the western part >>>of Miami County, Ohio. On page 351 of the Newberry Annals book the >>>author says: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Of the Thomases who emigrated, several are not mentioned. They were >>>>Abel, Isaac, John, William and Nehemiah.....the same may be said of >>>>the Duncans who came here with them..... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>The 1810 census of Ohio is lost for most of the counties. So I did my >>>looking on the 1820 census. All of these Thomas men are found in >>>Randoph Township in Miami County, Ohio in the census. I feel that this >>>is the right location because the only Nehemiah in all of Ohio is found >>>in Randolph Township in Miami County, Ohio. >>> >>>Randolph Township does not still exist. But I was also able to solve >>>that mystery: >>> >>> >>> >>>>The western part of the county, known as Randolph Township, lost its >>>>name when it was broken up into townships. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>The Duncans seem to have been Isaac, Jesse, and Samuel Duncan and they >>>settled in Union township according to the census of 1820. >>> >>>Union Township does exist today and it is the southern corner of the >>>county on the west side. So it would have been just the southern part >>>of what was originally Randolph Township. To see a map that explains >>>that go to: >>> >>>http://www.tdn-net.com/genealogy/townships.htm >>> >>> >>>By the way, Harriet was kind enough to correct my misinterpretation of >>>who wrote this information in the Newberry Annals book. It was Mr. >>>David Jones of Ohio who had been requested by Mr. John Chapman to write >>>of the Newberry transplants in Ohio. The information was not from John >>>Chapman who seemed to have remained in SC. >>> >>>I will write another e-mail or two sharing what I have found in >>>information about Miami county Newberry transplants while trying to >>>solve the mystery of Thomastown. >>> >>>Marsha Moses >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message