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- (1) Tracey, Grace L. & Dern, John P., Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987, p. 87:
John Willson, Nathaniel Thomas, John Haitt, Jr., John Peteate, George Robinson, Robert Luna, Luke Emelen, Francis Pincher, John Frost, George Hobson and John Calvert were other Quakers who moved through Maryland to Pennsylvania. [Note: Should th is read "from Pennsylvania through Maryland."?]
(2) O?Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, pp. 249-250:
Thomas
Nathaniel Thomas (b. 1710 c.) received a patent from the Colony on 12 November 1735 for a 380-acre tract of land. This land, located on a branch of Redbud Run (a branch of Opequon Creek), had been surveyed on 3 November 1734 by Robert Brooke. Th e tract is located at the north edge of present-day Winchester, Virginia, with the east property line being U.S. Highway 11, close to and north of Commercial Street. The land continues northwest from U.S. Highway 11 across U.S. Highway 522, the n running on both sides of 522 to near Apple Pie Ridge Road (County Highway 739). . . . On 212 November 1740, Thomas sold the 380 acres to John Hardin for 42 pounds.
Nathaniel bought 200 acres from Thomas Branson for six pounds, 10 shillings on 13 January 1741/42; this land was part of a 12 November 1735 850-acre patent. . . . This land is located near the head of Opequon Creek, west of Winchester, Virgini a on Cedar Creek Grade Road/Frederick County Highway 622, extending northwest of the Opequon community. He sold this property on 7 May 1747 to Nathaniel Cartmell for 60 pounds with his wife Anne releasing her dower rights to this land.
Thomas purchased 100 acres of land from John Hite for 20 pounds on 23 November 1742. . . . This land (formerly sold to Jost Hite by Richard Pendall) is located southeast of Charlestown, West Virginia on Cattail Run, a branch of Shenandoah River . This sale was re-registered in the Frederick County Deed Books on 5 June 1753. On 20 July 1753, Nathaniel had a 240-acre tract surveyed adjacent north of the 100 acres; he received a Fairfax grant for it on 24 March 1761. This land is locate d adjacent east of Charlestown, West Virginia, with U.S. Highway 340 (Jost Hite Road) at the northwest corner between the Charlestown racetrack and downtown. Nathaniel sold 40 acres of the 240-acre tract to Gershom Keyes for 50 pounds on 29 Augu st 1761. He sold the remaining 200 acres, and the 100-acre tract, to Magnus Tate on 30 August 1762 for 500 pounds.
Nathaniel Thomas was deceased by 1 March 1763 when his will (dated 13 October 1760) was proved in Frederick County Court. He willed 10 pounds to Ann Morgan (daughter of Morgan Morgan) contingent upon her acquiring a legal and sufficient ?quit? c laim against any other right to real estate or personal estate. The will states, ?the said Ann Morgan lived with me for many years past and sometimes pretended to be my wife (Dower Release, 1747), and by whom I suppose to have begotten sundry so ns and daughters.? Nathaniel bequeathed personal property to his sons Isaac and Jonathan, and daughters Catherine Emrey, Rachel Thomas, Elizabeth Thomas and Mary Thomas. Jonathan, Rachel, Elizabeth and Mary were underage at the time of the will . He instructed executors Robert Harper and Thomas Hart to sell all real and personal property.
(3) Frederick County, Virginia, Hopewell Friends History [database online], Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997:
In the State Land Office at Richmond are to be found recorded in Book 16, pages 315-415, inclusive, the patents issued to the settlers who came to the Shenandoah Valley under authority of the Orders in Council made to Alexander Ross and Morgan B ryan. All bear date of November 12, 1735, and recite that the grantee is one of the seventy families brought in by them, and excepting location and acreage, are alike in wording and conditions, and are signed by William Gooch, Lieutenant-Governo r of the Colony at that time. . . .
These patents were issued under the seal of the colony and were grants from the Crown, free of any obligation of feudal services to the Fairfax family, who claimed the land as lords proprietors of the Northern Neck of Virginia. The sixth Lord Fa irfax, who later established his home at Greenway Court near Winchester, instituted many suits against early settlers in the Shenandoah Valley, but it does not appear that any Friend who claimed under Ross and Bryan was ever ejected from his lan d.
Although it is specifically stated that seventy families have been "by them brought in to our said Colony and settled upon the Lands in the said Order mentioned," only thirty-six patents issued to thirty-four grantees have been found. The name s of these grantees are here given, together with sundry information gathered from the minutes of various Friends' meetings, from the records of the counties of Orange and Frederick in Virginia, and Chester County, Pennsylvania. . . .
Nathaniel Thomas, 850 acres. This land is described as being "at the head of the South Branch of Opeckon," and lies along the eastern foot of Little North Mountain. In 1747 Nathaniel Thomas sold 200 acres of this land to Nathaniel Cartmell, "Beg inning at Joist Hite's corner," and "adjoining Cartmell's other land." Martin Cartmell, Wm. Glover, and Joseph Lupton were the witnesses.
The will of Nathaniel Thomas was probated March 1, 1763. He makes bequests to Ann, daughter of Morgan ap Morgan, to his sons Isaac and Jonathan, and to his daughters Catherine Emery, Rachel, Elizabeth, and Mary Thomas. The executors named are Ro bert Harper and Thomas Hart. Witnesses, Mary Magnus, Perrygren MackNess, William McKee, and John Smith.
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Abt 1710 - Bef 1763 (~ 53 years)
