Thanks very much for your response on the Thomas Family. I see several Theophilus Thomas's mentioned in the book "Old Albemarle & it's Absentee Landlords" by Worth S. Ray. In fact, one of Tillie Thomas's brother's was a Theophilus Thomas. The Thomas family is listed in this book also has connections to Cottens & Godwins. John Thomas married a daughter of Major Barnaby Kearney, who was burgess 1684 from Nansemond County, but this, however, is not established as a fact. There are one or two items that indicate it. He appears to have had only three sons, John Thomas, Richard Thomas and Robert Thomas. John Thomas was Capt John Thomas, son in law of John COTTEN and his wife Martha GODWIN. Elizabeth GODWIN married Capt. Barnaby Kearney, sister of Elizabeth Kearny, whom we think was the mother of Capt. John Thomas. Micajah Thomas, Jr. grandson of Richard Thomas, brother of Capt. John Thomas married Elizabeth Crafford, a grand-daughter of Capt Barnaby Kearney. I hope this will help you & everyone at Thomas-L Mailing List. There are A LOT more Thomas's listed in the book -- but far too many to list here! Thanks, Lori Godwin GodwinGA@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 100. John Thomas & his family 200. John Thomas 201. Richard Thomas 202. William Thomas 203. Joseph Thomas 204. Phillip Thomas 205. Barnaby Thomas 206. Elizabeth Thomas 200. JOHN THOMAS m. Elizabeth Kearney & had: 300. John Thomas m (1) Anne COTTEN (2) Anna 301. Richard Thomas m. Barsheba Wills 302. Robert Thomas 202. WILLIAM THOMAS m. Martha Robinson 324. John Thomas m. Christiana Roberts 325. Michael Thomas m. Ann. 326. Lewis Thomas 327. William Thomas 328. Samuel Thomas m. Elizabeth Sanders 329. Elizabeth Thomas 206. Elizabeth Thomas m. (1) John Boddie, (2) John Dawson 341 William Boddie m. Mary Bennett 342 John Boddie m. Elizabeth Jeffreys 343. Henry Dawson 344. Thomas Dawson 345. Elizabeth Dawson m. William Kinchen Jr. After Elizabeth Dawson's death her second husband Col John Dawson married Charity Alston and had: 346. John Dawson Jr. *324. John Thomas married Christiana Roberts b. 1704/5. Children: >>>>>404 John Thomas<<<<<< (lived near William Godwin of Edgecombe) 405 Jonathan Thomas 406 Obedience Thomas >>>>>407 Theophilus Thomas 408 Millicent Thomas 409 Teresa thomas m. Theophilus Hill 404. John Thomas m. perhaps 3 times & had: 520. Millicent Thomas 521. Tillie Thomas<<<<< married a GODWIN 522. Roberts Thomas 523. John Thomas 524. William Thomas 525. Joseph Thomas >>>> 526. THEOPHILUS Thomas 527. Benjamin I. Thomas 528. James Thomas 529. Whitfield Thomas 530. Petton Thomas 531. John G. Thomas 532. Tracy Hill Thomas 533. Polly A. McKinnie Thomas 534. Mariah Johnston Thomas 535. Frederick G. Thomas 536. Jonathan Thomas 537. Nancy Thomas 538. Patience Thomas 539. Patsy Thomas 540. Sally Thomas 541. _________ Thomas 405. JONATHAN THOMAS m. Mary Hilliard Newsom and had: 542. Jonathan Thomas, Jr. 543. Elizabeth Thomas 544. Sarah Thomas 545. Charity Thomas 545. Mourning Thomas 407. Theophilus Thomas m. Mary Rogers and had: 546. Obedience Thomas (b. 1771) 547. Millicent Thomas 548. Ichabod Thomas 549. Benjamin Thomas 550. Tabitha Thomas 551. Theresa Thomas 552. Micajah Thomas 553. John Rogert Thomas >>>> 554. Theophilus Thomas, Jr. 556. Elizabeth Thomas 557. Nancy Thomas ~~~~~~~ 527. Benjamin I. Thomas This name will be found on the chart of 324 John Thomas and his family, and he was one of the 22 children of Rev. John Thomas, Jr., who after spending many years of his life in the ministry moved to Hancock Co. Georgia and settled between Sparta and Greensboro on Shoulderbone Creek, and died about 1807. 527. Benjamin I. Thomas settled in Alabama, coming there from Gerogia as soon as the lands were opened up for settlement. Before 1820 he had settled in Texas. He has two sons: 640. Benjamin Thomas 641. Theophilus Thomas 640 Benjamin Thomas married Martha Engledow at Nacogdouches, Texas, Jun 17, 1839. He served in the Texas revolution in Captain Kimbrough's Compnay. He died at San Antonio in 1891. 641. Theophilus Thomas was a Methodist Minister who served all but about five years of his life in Texas. He died in 1882 in his seventy-sixth year. The wife of 641. Theophilus Thomas was Susan Winn?, daughter of Peter Winn? who probably lived in South Carolina before emigrating to Texas which he did. They had nine children. ~~~~~~~ Miscellaneous Notes on Cotten's: John Cotten about whom much has been heretofore said in these notes, married as his second wife, Martha, a daughter of Col Frederick Jones (His first wife was Martha GODWIN, from Isle of Wight County). Arthur Williams & John Dew Jr married sisters and that Sarah Dew, daughter of John Dew, Jr married a brother of John COTTEN, father in law of 300. John Thomas. This writer has many abstracts from the Isle of Wight records, but space will not permit their use in this sketch. In 1690 Henry West and John Portis - father in law of John Thomas - patented 900 acres of land in Isle of Wight, and the same year William West, WILL GODWIN (father in law of John COTTEN) and Walter and Jeremiah________ are all mentioned together. It occurred to the compiler that the wife of Henry Lawrence may have been an Isabella Purcell, sister of Arthur Purcell, and also sister of Susannah Pursell who married William Exum. >>>>In 1710 Arthur Whitehead married MARY GODWIN, a sister of MARTHA GODWIN who married John COTTEN, and after her death, he appears to have married second Isabella Purcell, whose sister Patience became the wife of the third William Exum. Richard Exum and THOMAS GODWIN, in 1650 patented 550 acres of land in what is now (it is said) Essex County, Virginia using the headrights of eleven persons, among them being Morgan Thomas, Richard Exum and William COTTEN. WILLIAM GODWIN, of the Lower Parrish, acknowledges receipt of legacies left to Elizabeth Wright by the will of her father, Thomas Wright, September 6, 1666. Witnesses, John Marshall and Barnett Cruddup. The WILLIAM GODWIN of the above note was the father of Martha Godwin, who married John Cotten, who died in Bertie County, NC in 1728.