Alma, I don't know if anyone else answered you on this. I just returned to my computer after 2 weeks of vacation and am still more than a 1000 e-mails behind. The answer to your question about Germanna can be found at: http://www.germanna.com/Germanna.htm and http://www.germanna.org/ There seem to have been some Thomas family members among the 1717 Germanna . I subscribe to the Germanna mail list and thoroughly enjoy the posts even though I am yet to find a real honest to goodness Germanna ancestor. I thought that I had some, but they have proved to be not true Germanna. The area that one finds them in is Orange/Culpeper Counties in Virginia. My guess is that your Isaac Thomas was either among the Thomas family that seems to have been in the Marlborough County area or part of the Thomas family that lived in Newberry County among the Quakers there. I believe that the Marlborough area THomas's had moved there from Maryland. I believe that the Newberry County Thomas's had moved there from Pennsylvania>Hopewell MM near Fredericksburg>North Carolina and South Carolina. I think that the two lines are probably unrelated. Other researchers have indicated that they believe the Pennsyvania Thomas's to have been Welsh while other researchers indicate that they believe the Maryland Thomas line to have come from England. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe your Isaac and Mary to be the well documented family in Hinshaw who have a son that they name Evan along with a son born 1777 that they name Nehemiah....and then twins named Prudence and Sarah who are born in 1781. This family keeps me dreaming that I will be able to connect my Sarah Thomas McKinsey with the Evan Thomas who we find with Alexander Ross at Hopewell MM in the first half of the 1700's. Sarah died before the mass exodus of the Quaker families from the South to Ohio and Indiana and she is buried in the graveyard adjoining the Bush River MM. The rest of her family moved to Warren County, Ohio during the first decade of the 1800's. Abigail Thomas, the widow of Nehemiah Thomas, lived on part of the McKinsey farm and remained close to the McKinsey family further cementing my gut feelings that Sarah was a daughter/niece/sibling of the THomas men who lived first in Newberry County and then later in the southwestern part of Ohio. I do not believe that these people are Germanna. Marsha in WV Alma Robertson wrote: > > Hello, list. > > What is Germanna, or the Germanna colonies, mentioned in recent posts? I've > been researching various lines for about 40 years and have never run across > the term before. My Thomases (ancestor Isaac Thomas b ca 1730, married Mary > Davies/Davy/Davis) lived in South Carolina, but I do have another ancestor > who lived on a Ten Mile Creek in what is now Greene County, Pennsylvania. > Is this the same Ten Mile Creek recently mentioned? If so, was it an area > where the Germanna culture thrived? No one knows the parents or siblings of > my Pennsylvania ancestor, and I'm wondering whether this could be a clue to > his ancestry. He moved to Warren County, Ohio in 1805 and died there in > 1807. His name was William Lee. > > Thanks, > Alma