Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island
Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island

Author: Hollis A. Thomas, MD

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-01-24

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1475965710

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In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.

Fifth Biographical Record of the Class of Fifty-Eight, Yale University
Fifth Biographical Record of the Class of Fifty-Eight, Yale University

Author: William Plumb Bacon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780267432134

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Excerpt from Fifth Biographical Record of the Class of Fifty-Eight, Yale University: 1858 1908 The Secretary was officially floating idly upon a sea of contentment, believing that '58 was gorged and would call for no more class records, when he awoke and found it all a dream. In 1865, in the first class record, he included the non-graduates. He then concluded that the duties of a Secretary, especially because the numbers graduating were larger and increasing, could not be properly done if non-graduates were included. He therefore omitted them in the next three records. In July, 1908, he yielded to a second earnest appeal from the Secre tary of the University to secure for him the addresses of the living non graduates and secured them all. When the class in June, 1908, asked the Secretary to issue a record supplementary to that of 1897, he concluded to supplement also the non graduate part of the record of 1865. The result is before you. In brief, the whole non-graduate record is in the 1865 and the 1908 records, and the whole graduate record is in the 1897 and the 1908 records. Thus practically closes a class secretarial career of fifty years, which has probably been unequalled in duration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.