Marsha et al My information about my Thomas family (Isaac and Mary Davies Thomas) through their daughter Elizabeth who married William Cox is that Isaac died in 1805 (I have a copy of his will dated 1802 and it was proved in June 1805). In about March of 1806, William and Elizabeth Cox and four of their children were granted a certificate to Miami Monthly Meeting along with Mary Davies Thomas and some of Elizabeth's siblings. I have never heard of Thomastown. William and Elizabeth were later in West Branch MM and then later in Indiana. At least some of their descendants moved across Indiana and then on to Iowa, in areas with lots of Quakers, although my direct line was no longer Quaker. I am tantalized by all of the Thomas info you have and would love to have the time to really study it and compare it to my notes. William and Elizabeth Thomas Coxes's eighth child was Phoebe, b. 1807 in Montgomery Co, Ohio, and she was my grandmother's grandmother. Phoebe is the one who told my grandmother stories about the Quaker family roots, about the Thomas' being from Wales (altho I don't know when), about coming from Newberry to Ohio, and more. My grandmother would have been 130 years old last Friday, so she got to know her grandmother Phoebe quite well (Phoebe died in 1899 at age 92). Phoebe was disowned for mou, and "never regretted it from the time she saw the man she was to marry at a funeral- and knew he was the one!". Kathie Johnston [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) In a message dated 6/9/2008 4:57:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: 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 **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)