Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LKSX-CJF

Llywelyn married verch Leuan, Mawd in 1362 in Parc Letis, Lngtwgdyfrynwysg, Monmouthshire, Wales. Mawd was born in 1329 in Elfael (Historical), Radnorshire, Wales; died in 1424 in Parc Letis, Lngtwgdyfrynwysg, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Knight
• FSID: 937C-P8Y
• Name: Dafydd " Gam" ap Llewelyn

Family/Spouse: verch Gwilym, Gwenllian. Gwenllian was born in 1355 in Abercrai, Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales; died in 1455 in Peuten, Llanddew, Breconshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: verch Hywel, Mali. Mali was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LZ6B-G7Y

Notes:

From LifeSketch

Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam (died 1454) was a Welsh noblewoman, the daughter of Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel, otherwise known as Dafydd Gam, who was killed at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Gwladys was named "the star of Abergavenny" (Welsh: Seren-y-fenni) —"Gwladys the happy and the faultless" by Welsh poet Lewys Glyn Cothi. He describes the lady of Raglan Castle, which she became upon her second marriage, as a brilliant being, "like the sun—the pavilion of light." She has been compared to the legendary Queen Marcia for her discretion and influence.

Gwladys married Herbert, Howel ap Thomas in 1421 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. Howel was born in 1392 in Raglan Castle, Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales; died in 1446 in Raglan Castle, Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in 1446 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9H86-NF9

Notes:

Richard Herbert of Coldbrook

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Richard Herbert (d. 1469) of Coldbrook Park, near Abergavenny was a 15th-century Welsh knight, and the lineal ancestor of the Herberts of Chirbury.

He was the son of William ap Thomas of Raglan Castle and Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, and the brother of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. He married Margaret, sister of Sir Rhys ap Thomas. They had two sons: Sir William Herbert of Coldbrook, and Sir Richard Herbert of Powys. His great-grandson, Edward Herbert, was raised to the peerage in 1629.

Like his brother, he was a supporter of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses. He fought alongside his brother at the Battle of Edgecote Moor (a Lancastrian victory), where he was captured and executed. He is interred with his wife at Abergavenny Priory, near other members of his family.

References
Dwnn & p. 293.
Wilkins & p.99.
Coxe & p. 172.

Bibliography
Coxe, William (1801). A Historical Tour Through Monmouthshire. Hereford: Davies & Co.
Dwnn, Lewys (1613). Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches Between 1586 and 1613. Llandovery: Welsh MSS. Society.
Wilkins, Charles (1884). The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales (vol. 5). Cardiff: Daniel Owen & Co.

Richard married verch Thomas, Lady Margaret in 1454 in Coldbrook, Monmouthshire, Wales. Margaret (daughter of ap Gruffydd, Thomas and Griffith, Mrs Elizabeth) was born in 1444 in Manordeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died on 26 Mar 1499 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Mar 1499 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LR9B-QJC

Notes:

Richard and Margaret had three sons, one of whom was William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, who became the 1st Earl of Pembroke (2nd Creation) on 11 October 1551. Existing Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, and of Carnarvon, of the Duke of Powis, of Pool Castle (extinct 1747), descend from Sir Richard Herbert. Through the female line, of the Marquis of Bute, derives his Glamorganshire estates. William married Anne Parr, sister of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII. William served Henry VIII in many capacities, including Chief Gentleman on the Privy Chamber and the Privy Council and Receiver of the King's revenues. He was knighted in 1544 and later elected to the Knights of the Garter. The other son was Sir George Herbert of Swansea was ancestor to the Herberts of Swansea, Cogan, Cookham and the White Friars, extinct in 1739. Candleston Castle passed from Richard and Margaret to George.

From the Annals and Antiquites of the Counties and County families of Wales
Herberts of Crickhowel.

The beginning of the Herberts of Crickhowel was with William Herbert, illegitimate son (as Jones, Hist. Brec, and the St. Mark's Coll. MS., say) of Sir Richard Herbert, of Colebrook, near Abergavenny, 2nd brother of William, 1st Earl of Pembroke. William married Anne, daughter of Jenkin Walbeoffe, and in part through the lands obtained by this marriage, but principally in the capacity of steward of Lord Herbert's large possessions in these parts, he came to reside at Crickhowel. His son, Watkin Herbert, Esq., married Margaret, daughter of Morgan Thomas. [Watkin Herbert was Sheriff 1540.]

Edward Herbert, his son, in. Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Lewis of Van, Esq.: "sa. a lion rampant, arg. in a bordure gabonated, or, gu." His son and heir,—
William Herbert, Esq. [of Crickhowel, Sheriff 1546], m. Mary, daughter of Dr. William Awbrey, LL.D.: az. a chevron between 3 eagles' heads, erased, or. Note.—Herbert of Crughowel's Arms are bordered, vert, bezanted. William Herbert had three sons :—

1. Edward Herbert, Esq. [of Crickhowel, Sheriff 1566], m. [Anne,] daughter of John Jeffreys [of Abercynrig], and had a son Walter [living when St. Mark's Coll. MS. was written].

2. Sir John Herbert, Kt, 2nd son, »»....

3. Henry Herbert, 3rd son, m. a daughter of Edward Williams, of Llangattwg, and had a son Edward, who m. a daughter and a co-h. of Edward Games, of Buckland [living when the St. Mark's Coll. MS. was written].

So far the MS. The days of the Herberts of Crughowel were now nearly passing away; twice or thrice more the name appears in the list of Breconshire Sheriffs:—" John Herbert" in 1634, and again two years running, 1640, 1641; and "Sir John Herbert, of Crickhowel, Kt.," probably the same person, in 1662, and then disappears finally from that list. Sir John Herbert died A.d. 1666, leaving but a daughter, who m. William de Hunt, Esq., Sergeant at Law.

The castellated mansion of the Herberts at Crickhowel must have been one of some magnificence. No part of the house now remains, but its site is ascertained by the old gateway, of decorated Gothic, at the entrance to the quadrangle, which still stands uninjured, and goes under the appropriate name of Porthmawr—the Great Gate. This beautiful archway is a puzzle to the passer by and to many writers of guide-books, for its expression is undeniably antique, while the house to which it is now attached, and which has been baptized with the name of the Old Gateway, is modern, and out of character with the style. Jones tells us that in his time the archway was called Cwrt Garu>, or more correctly, as he thought, Cwrt y Carw, or the Stag's Court; but for neither the one nor the other does he give a reason. Porthmawr, therefore, must be a very recent name.

Family/Spouse: Walbeoffe, Anne. Anne (daughter of Walbeoffe, Jenkin and Walbeoffe, Mrs Jenkin) was born in 1508 in Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales; died in DECEASED in Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Sir Knight
• Nickname: Walter
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1541 and 1542; High Sherriff of Breconshire
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1547 and 1548; High Sheriff of Breconshire
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1551 and 1552; High Sheriff of Monmouthshire
• Will: 9 Mar 1551
• Appointments / Titles: 1558; Member of Parliment for Breconshire

Notes:

From the History of Parliment

ConstituencyDates
BRECONSHIRE
1558
Family and Education
b. by 1517, s. of William Thomas Herbert of Crickhowel by a da. of Jenkin Melyf. m. Margaret, da. of Morgan Thomas Hir, at least 1s.1

Offices Held
Sheriff, Brec. 1541-2, 1547-8, Mon. 1551-2; commr. subsidy, Brec. 1543, relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; j.p. 1555, q. 1558/59-64.2

Biography
The Herbert family of Crickhowel was of illegitimate descent from Sir Richard Herbert (d.1469) of Coldbrook, Monmouthshire, brother of the then Earl of Pembroke. Walter Herbert, who was also known by the diminutive Watkin, is to be distinguished from a namesake of Brecon who was a justice in 1543 and commissioner in 1550, with Herbert, for the collection of the third part of the relief. It is clear from later evidence that it was Walter Herbert of Crickhowel who in March 1538 leased for £42 a year all the mills in the lordship of Brecon and fishery rights in the Neath and Tawe rivers. As Watkin Herbert he became the second sheriff of the new county of Brecon: he was to serve a second term there and one in Monmouthshire. He sued out a general pardon at the accession of Mary and was involved in litigation for debt at the great sessions in 1554. Of the circumstances of his return to the last Parliament of the reign, or of the part which he played in it, nothing has been discovered.3

At Elizabeth’s accession Herbert again secured a general pardon, and his dependability was shown by his being put on the quorum of the Breconshire bench. After 1564 nothing more is heard of him, no will or inquisition surviving.4

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: P. S. Edwards
Notes
1. Date of birth estimated from first reference. Dwnn. Vis. Wales, ii. 37; Harl. ch. 111 B26; Cat. Mss Wales (Cymmrod. rec. ser. iv), 588.
2. E179/219/29; CPR, 1553, pp. 364419; 1563-6, p. 29; SP11/5/6.
3. G. T. Clark, Limbus Patrum Morganiae, 301; C193/12/1; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xix; CPR, CPR, 1553, p. 364; 1555-7, p. 484; NLW ms Wales 17/5.
4.CPR, 1558-60, p. 193.

Watkin Herbert
From GENi

Watkin Herbert
Birthdate: 1525
Birthplace: Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Death: (Date and location unknown)

Immediate Family:
Father:
Charles Herbert
Mother:
Elizabeth Herbert
Spouse:
Catrin verch Thomas
Children:
Gwenllian Thomas;
Alice Herbert;
Blanche Herbert;
Catherine Herbert;
Charles Herbert;
3 others
Siblings:
Blanche Herbert;
Joan Herbert:
John Herbert

Occupation:
Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1552

Watkin married Thomas, Margaret in 1557 in Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales. Margaret (daughter of Thomas, Morgan) was born in 1536 in Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales; died in 1580 in Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L6KX-N2L

Notes:

Gwenllian Thomas
From GENi

Gwenllian Thomas (Herbert)
Birthdate: 1558 (26)
Birthplace: Monmouth, Wales
Death: Died 1584 in England, United Kingdom

Immediate Family:
Father:
Watkin Herbert;
Catrin verch Thomas
Spouse:
John ap Philip Thomas
Children:
Rice Thomas;
Evan Thomas
Siblings:
Alice Herbert;
Blanche Herbert;
Catherine Herbert;
Charles Herbert;
Elizabeth Herbert;
Mary Herbert;
Maud Herbert

Born in 1558 - Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales Deceased (Unknown)
Parents
Watkin Herbert ca 1522-1555/ Catrin verch Thomas ca 1526-
Spouses and children
Married to John Philip ap Thomas 1554- with M Evan Thomas 1580-

Gwenllian married Thomas, John Phillip in 1578 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. John (son of ap Gruffydd, Thomas and Scudamore, Sybill) was born in 1554 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales; died in 1584 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales; was buried in 1584 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Evan Thomas
From GENi

Evan Thomas
Birthdate: circa 1580 (70)
Birthplace: Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Death: Died 1650 in Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Immediate Family:
Father:
John ap Philip Thomas
Mother:
Gwenllian Thomas
Spouse:
Sarah Thomas
Children:
Evan Thomas, Jr.;
Rhys Thomas;
Lt. Philip Thomas;
Evan Thomas;
William Thomas;
Philip Thomas;
Penelope Thomas
Dora Emily Thomas
Sibling:
Rice Thomas

About Evan Thomas
BEWARE of assuming that a major seaport is a birth/death place for an immigrant or his/her immediate ancestors!

http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2617.htm#i78639
Evan Thomas
b. circa 1580
d. 1650
Father
John ap Philip Thomas b. c 1554
Mother
Gwenllian Herbert b. c 1558
'Evan Thomas was born circa 1580 at of Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. He married Sarah circa 1619. Evan Thomas died in 1650 at MD.
'Family Sarah b. c 1598
Child
◦Philip Thomas+ b. c 1620, d. 1674

Evan married Thomas, Mrs Sarah in 1619 in Wales. Sarah was born in 1598 in Wales; died on 10 Nov 1628 in Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: High Commissioner of the Provincial Court
• Occupation: Mercantile house of Thomas & Devonshire, at Bristol, England
• Religion: Quaker
• Departure: 1651, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

Lt. Philip Thomas
From GENi

Philip Thomas
Birthdate: circa 1620 (54)
Birthplace: Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Death: Died 1674 in West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States

Immediate Family:
Father:
Evan Thomas
Mother:
Sarah Thomas
Spouse:
Sarah Thomas
Children:
Martha Arnell / Arnold;
Philip Thomas, II;
Sarah Mears;
Elizabeth Harrison Cole
Samuel Thomas, Sr.
Siblings:
Evan Thomas, Jr.;
Rhys Thomas;
Evan Thomas;
William Thomas;
Philip Thomas;
Penelope Thomas
Dora Emily Thomas

About Lt. Philip Thomas
Just because he immigrated from Bristol does NOT mean that he was born there. He may actually have been born in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales.

http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2617.htm#i78635
'Philip Thomas
'M, b. circa 1620, d. 1674
Father Evan Thomas b. c 1580, d. 1650
Mother Sarah b. c 1598
' Philip Thomas was born circa 1620 at of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. He married Sarah Harrison, daughter of Edmund Harrison and Jane Godfrey, circa 1651 at England. Philip Thomas died in 1674 at Anne Arundel, MD.
'Family Sarah Harrison b. c 1628, d. 25 Nov 1687
Child
◦Elizabeth Thomas+ b. c 1654
__________________
Sources

Genealogical Records and Sketches of the Descendants of William Thomas of Hardwick, Mass. ... (Google eBook) Amos Russell Thomas F. A. Davis, 1891 - 221 pages. Page 5. Philip Thomas, the progenitor of the Maryland branch of the family, came from Wales in 1651. Soon after arriving in the country he joined the Friends, and many of his descendants are still members of that body. He was a man of much influence in the colonies, and his descendants are not only numerous, but have been influential in the State, and by intermarriage have become related to many prominent families in that and adjoining States. "26th. John Philip THOMAS,t who inherited the lands of his father, and left a son. 27th. Evan Thomas, b. about 1580. He d. in 1650. leaving three sons,—Captain Evan Thomas, Philip, and Eice. Philip Thomas came to the Province of Maryland in 1651, with his wife, Sarah Harrison, and three children. Captain Evan may have been the same Evan Thomas who came to Boston, in 1635, as master of the ship "William and Francis," and settled in that place in 1639 or 1640, with a wife and four children, and is believed to have been the ancestor of William of Hardwick. Any claim that might be made for the identity of these two persons rests, however, solely upon the correspondence in names and dates.

From Americans of Royal Descent

Philip Thomas, who was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Bristol, England, and in 1651 left there with his wife, Sarah Harrison and three Children, Philip, Sarah, and Elizabeth, and came to Lord Baltimore's province in Maryland, and had a grant 19th February 1651-2 of 500 acres of land, called "Beckley," on the west side of the Chesapeake Bay in 1758 and 1661 he had granted him 100 acres, called "Thomas Towne," and in 16665 a grant of 120 acres, called "Fuller's Point," and afterwards many other grants lying mostly in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He died 1675, having by his wife who died in 1687; 1 Samuel Thomas and 2) Elizabeth Thomas

From the Thomas Book

PHILIP THOMAS, of the mercantile house of Thomas & Devonshire, at Bristol, England, son of Evan Thomas of Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, who died in 1650, is the earliest ancestor of this family of whom we have legal and documentary proof, although I have little doubt that the descent given in this genealogy is accurately taken from Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., and will be confirmed by further investigations. A curious old tradition in the family derived them from Thomas de Douvre 1 (
Further research satisfied me that the descent was to be taken directly from Sir Rhys through one of his sons by Gwenllian (a. v.), sister of his friend and counsellor, Robert ap Gwylim Harry ap Jevan Gwyn of Mydhifinych, Abbot of Talley. Referring then to the genealogy of Sir Rhys ap Thomas for its earlier history, we begin the present family with this THOMAS AP RHYS, b. after 1478, whose son Philip ap Thomas m. Sybell, daughter of Philip and Joan (Warnecombe) Scudamore, and dying before 1585 left a son and heir, John Philip Thomas, who appears to have inherited from his mother the demesne lands of Grosmount Manor, Monmouthshire, and a grist-mill near by, before 1585, when he held them "in right of Philip Skidamore," and in 1591 was Queen's lessee of mills at Kentchurch in the same shire. He married Gwenllian, fourth daughter of Walter Herbert, Esq. (q. v.), of Skenfrith, Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1552, and had issue: Evan Thomas, b. 1580, whose name begins the pedigree compiled by the late Philip E. Thomas, Esq., of Baltimore. I find notices, of Evan Thomas ap Evan, Under Sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1615; Evan Thomas, who was one of the Awennydion, or College of Bards, of Glamorgan in 1620; Major Evan Thomas, killed on the part of the King, at the battle of St. Fagans, near Cardiff, May 8, 1648; Evan ap Thomas of Eglwysilan, Wales, b. 1581, d. 1666; E. (probably Edward) Thomas, printer of Deacon's "History of James Naylor," at "his house in Green Arbor, London, 1657 ;" and Evan Thomas, of Pembrokeshire, who was fined for absence from church as a Quaker, but whether any of these are Evan of Swansea I cannot say. His wife's name is unknown. Philip, his son, was b. about 1600, and may have been the Philip Thomas in the East India Company's service who petitioned for unpaid wages in 1621, but his behaviour was complained of and he was discharged their service on December 17th. Another Philip Thomas, with Thomas Lawrence and Martin Saunders, gives information about a Romish plot April 1, 1628; and there was a Philip Thomas called to account for saying at the Castle Tavern in St. Clement's parish, London, January 20, 1638, that" the punishment of Prynne, Bastwick and Burton, the Puritans, by ear-cropping, etc., was not more than they deserved." Before 1638 a Philip Thomas was messenger of the Chamber for charitable uses, and August 13, 1638, he suggested a new commission. Philip Thomas, the emigrant, before 1650, formed a business partnership with one Devonshire at Bristol, and some time in the year 1651, only seventeen years after Leonard Calvert and Lord Baltimore's first colonists landed at St. Mary's, removed to the province of Maryland. The earliest land patent in his name, dated February 19, 1651-2, conveys to him 500 acres of land called " Beakely " or " Beckley " on the west side of Chesapeake Bay, "in consideration that he hath in the year 1651 transported himself, Sarah, his wife, Philip, Sarah, and Elizabeth his children, into this our province."

He would appear to have come directly from Bristol to Maryland. An examination of the land records of the colony of Virginia, made by the well-known genealogist, R. A. Brock, Esq., of Richmond, fails to show any grant to a Philip Thomas in the seventeenth century, and there would seem to be no reason to suppose that he was in America before coming to Maryland, or, as some have thought, was a member of the Puritan Colony in Virginia and removed thence along with them, when in 1649 and 1650 about seventy families of Puritans from Colonel Richard Bennett's plantation at Nansemond, Va., emigrated to Maryland and settled first on Greenbury's Point, at the mouth of the Severn River, principally on 250 acres surveyed in 15-acre lots, and called the "Town lands of Severn." The first meetinghouse was erected on land adjoining that of Elder Durand, their minister. Mr. Philip Thomas is said to have lived on the premises and guarded the sanctuary. About five years later the settlers transferred their lands to Bennett, and moved away. Between 1658 and 1661 Philip Thomas had patented to him 100 acres called *• Thomas Towne ; " in 1665 a patent of 120 acres called "Fuller's Poynt;" in 1668, of 300 acres called "The Planes ;" in 1672, of 200 acres called "Phillip's Addicion," and numerous other patents 1 of unnamed tracts. This land lay mostly in Anne Arundel County, near what is now known as West River. "Fuller's Poynt," between the Severn and South Rivers, is now called Thomas Point, and is the site of a light-house. A man of character and resolution, the emigrant soon acquired influence amongst his neighbours, and, affiliating himself with the Puritan party, he became one of its leaders in the conflict with Lord Baltimore, the Proprietary, and his representatives in the province. When Cromwell and the Parliamentary party were supreme in England, their sympathizers in Maryland broke out in open rebellion under Colonel Richard Bennett, and Philip Thomas, holding a military commission as lieutenant, was of their muster in Anne Arundel County, Md. Governor Stone immediately summoned the militia of the province, and with a little army of 250 men, after seizing a magazine of arms collected by the Puritans, set out for Providence on the Severn, the head-quarters of Bennett's partisans. Part of his men were transported in small vessels, and part marched along the Bay shore. As they drew near Providence, Stone sent forward a messenger to the enemy, summoning them to surrender; but the messenger did not return; and on the evening of the same day, March 24, 1654-5, the Governor's little fleet, with all his army now on board, made its appearance in the Severn.

Captain Fuller, the commander at Providence, put some men on board a ship lying in the harbour, who fired on Stone's boats as he landed his forces, but did no damage. On the next morning, which was Sunday, Governor Stone and his force came marching up to the attack, under the black and yellow flag of the colony, while over Fuller's men, 107 in number, drawn up in order of battle, floated the blue cross on a crimson field, the standard of the Commonwealth of England. The battle was short, but sharp; about fifty of the Governor's men were killed or wounded, and Stone himself, with nearly all his force, compelled to surrender, under a promise that their lives should be spared.

The Puritan annalist writes: "After the battle our men were so tired with watching and anxiety (before the attack) that the guards set over the prisoners fell asleep at their posts; yet the Catholics were so disheartened by their defeat, that no one of them attempted to escape." "Hammond against Heamans," a contemporary pamphlet1 by one of the Governor's party, notes that "three days after the battle Captain Fuller, Win, Burgees, Richard Evans, Leo Strong, Wm. Durand, Roger Heamans, John Brown, John Cuts, Richard Smith, one Thomas (Philip Thomas), one Bestone, Sampson Warren, Thomas Meares, and one Crouch, sat as a Council of War, condemned a number of the prisoners to die, and executed four of them."

March 20, 1656-7, Lieutenant Philip Thomas was appointed one of the six High Commissioners of the Provincial Court, the father of his son - in - law, John Mears, being another* When Oliver Cromwell ordered the revolutionists to return the province to the Proprietary he was one of the commissioners to make the surrender, which was effected on March 24, 1658-9, when the articles of surrender were signed, sealed, and delivered. After this he does not seem to have taken an active part in the political affairs of the province, the notices of his name upon the colonial records having to do with transfers of land, etc., the number of which were considerable.

From a petition to the Colonial Assembly, dated April 16, 1666, we learn that he had returned from a voyage to England in the preceding month. Tuesday, October 17, 1671, the Upper House of Assembly consents to a bill for ferries, among them being one " over Potapsco River, from Philip Thomas point in Anne Arundel Co. to Kent Co."

In April, 1672, George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends or Quakers, arrived in Maryland, landing at the Patuxent just in time to reach a " general meeting for all the Friends in the Province of Maryland," which had been appointed by John Burnyeat to be held at West River. He describes it1 as a " very large meeting," and held four days, " to which, besides Friends, came many other people, divers of whom were of considerable quality in the world's account." Immediately after this meeting Fox appears to have continued his labours by preaching his doctrines and establishing meetings for discipline at various places in the province. He remained in America until after the " general meeting " at West River, which commenced on the 17th of 3d month (May), 1673, and lasted four days. The next day, being the 21st, he set sail for England. In describing this meeting he says, "divers of considerable account in the government and many others were present, who were generally satisfied, and many of them reached, for it was a wonderful glorious meeting." It is possible, from the language of his will, that Philip Thomas himself was one of those " reached " by George Fox, and there can be no doubt that during his missionary tour his preaching brought a number of the family under the influence of Quakerism, as we find their names enrolled upon the early records of the Society immediately afterward. In point of fact, an examination of those records shows that, for the generation then living and their children, in Maryland at least, George Fox, John Burnyeat, Samuel Bownas, and the other preachers of Quakerism, did very much the same work as was done a century later by John Wesley and the Methodists. Such religion as they had was formal and lifeless; many, indeed, had cast off all restraint, and were living in utter neglect of the ordinances of religion and common morality. The Quaker missionaries coming amongst them with their fervid zeal, and speaking, as they thought, messages direct from heaven, aroused the slumbering souls of their hearers, and reaped a large harvest of converts to what was in fact the first presentation of a spiritual religion they had known.

As a result of this, the Quaker Registers of the end of the seventeenth century are a veritable Libro d'oro in Maryland, containing as they do the names of so many of the leading families of the province. Whether Philip Thomas became a Quaker or not, his widow certainly was one, and probably a preacher of the sect. September 9, 1674, he made his will, which was proved August 10, 1675. A copy, apparently made by one of his sons-in-law, is still preserved at the family seat, "Lebanon," West River, Md. From this he appears to have disposed of much of the land granted him, only mentioning "Beckley," "Fuller's Poynt," and the "Playns," and his two houses in Bristol, England. The clause in the will making "the body of Quakers" a final Court of Appeal in the event of any dispute arising under its provisions, was a common one amongst the Society of Friends, and in this case recourse was had to it. After the death of his widow, Sarah Thomas, his son Samuel claimed all her estates by virtue of a verbal will which he alleged she had made in his favour. This claim was resisted by his brother-in-law, Edward Talbot, and the West River Meeting of Friends was appealed to, to decide the question. The Meeting decided that although she had expressed a wish that Samuel Thomas should be her sole heir, she had not given legal effect to it, and that the estate should be equally divided between her several heirs. The two houses in Bristol were sold before September 13, 1690, when John Talbot claimed an interest in the proceeds of the sale in right of his wife, the granddaughter of Philip Thomas, to the extent of £\o, and £,%o, as her share of the whole landed estate.

PHILIP THOMAS, the Emigrant, m. in England, SARAH HARRISON, {[Sarah Harrison was possibly daughter of Edmund Harrison, Embrotherer to King Charles the First, and Jane his wife, daughter of Thomas Godfrey, and granddaughter of Christopher Harrison, merchant tailor, of London, who married E'iza, daughter of Thomas Cooke, of Wakefield. Visitation of London, 1634, 353. From a Herring Creek Meeting, November 25, 1687, " Sarah Thomas is taken away by death." Will proved May 25th, Liber 2, /. 72. "Bequeathed to Samuel Thomas my silver tobacco- box and suite of cloathes made me lately by Richard Arnold."] who survived him, dying early in 1687.3 Issue:
Born in England before 1651:
i. PHILIP, probably d. s. p. before 168S, as his name does not appear among Sarah Thomas's heirs at that date, though it is to be noted that his father is spoken of as Philip Thomas, Senior.
ii. SARAH, /«., in 1672, JOHN, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mears, who d. in 1675." His wife d. in the same year. Issue (surname Mears): An only dan., SARAH, *. August 4, 1673 ; m., before 1690, JOHN TALBOT (y.p.).
iii. ELIZABETH, »/., as his 3d wife, WILLIAM COALE (g. v.); he d.

Phillip married Harrison, Sarah in 1646 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Sarah (daughter of Harrison, Edmund and Godfrey, Jane) was born in 1628 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died on 25 Nov 1687 in West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA; was buried after 25 Nov 1687 in Quaker Burying Ground, Galesville, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

Elizabeth Thomas Haslap Cole Talbott
From GENi

Elizabeth Harrison Cole (Thomas)
Also Known As: "Cole;Coale;harrison;", "Cole;Coale;", "Coale", "Talbot"
Birthdate: circa 1654 (71)
Birthplace: Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland
Death: Died February 24, 1725 in Galesville, Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland
Place of Burial: Maryland, United States

Immediate Family:
Father:
Lt. Philip Thomas
Mother:
Sarah Thomas
Spouses:
Capt. Henry Haslap;
William Cole, ll
Edward Talbott, Sr.
Children:
Elizabeth Chew;
Susannah Gassaway;
Joseph Haslap, Hanslap;
Sarah Coale;
Elizabeth Smith;
Cassandra Giles;
Philip Coale;
Samuel Talbot;
Edward Talbott, Jr.
John Talbott
Siblings:
Martha Arnell/Arnold;
Philip Thomas, II;
Sarah Mears
Samuel Thomas, Sr.

William Cole ll Married three times:

Hester (before 1655) Hannah Elizabeth (circa 1666) Elizabeth Thomas (circa 1670)

He was a farmer. He was a Quaker minister. He resided circa 1651 at West River, Anne Arundel Co., MD.

William Cole II was born in 1633 in the Puritan area near Jamestown, VA to William and Sarah Cole. He grew up there, then moved with his father to St. Mary's Co., MD in 1650. In 1655 he married Hester ____ at Severn, MD and was established in Severn by 1656. His first child, William Cole III was born on 9/26/1655. In 1657 two influential visitors, Thomas Thurston and Josiah Coale came and preached to a growing group of Friends (Quakers). William started writing his name Coale after this. At this time William II associated with older relative, Thomas Cole. In 1658 William refused to bear arms in the militia and was subjected to land penalties. In 1660 William moved his family to the West River in Anne Arundal Co., MD. West River is 30 miles south of Baltimore on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. He owned 150 acres called "Great Bonnerston". Hester evidently died because in 1666 he married Hannah Galloway, the widow of Richard Galloway, in Anne Arundal Co., MD. They had a son, William Cole, IV born on 10/20/1667 at West River, Anne Arundal Co., MD. Jack Cole of Huntsville, AL believes they also had a son John born in 1669. Hannah probably died in childbirth because her date of death is November, 1669. In 1670 he married a third time to Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Philip and Sarah Harrison Thomas. William II bought 500 acres on the Patuxent River called "Portland Manor" and another 100 acre tract called "Hickory Hills". In 1672 a dynamic English Founder of Society of Friends visited William. In 1676 William II moved from "Great Bonnerston" to "Portland Manor". William III took over the old homestead "Great Bonnerston" and William IV took over "Hickory Hills". William II died in 1678.

Elizabeth married Coale, William II in 1670 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA. William (son of Coale, William I and Beck, Sarah) was born between 1632 and 1633 in Jamestown, James, Virginia, USA; died on 30 Oct 1678 in West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA; was buried in Nov 1678 in West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Talbott, Edward in May 1679 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA. Edward was born on 6 Nov 1658 in West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA; died before 6 Jan 1692 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA; was buried before 6 Jan 1692 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L7N5-M1Z
• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

Elizabeth Smith
From GENi

Elizabeth Smith (Coale)
Birthdate: August 30, 1671 (48)
Birthplace: Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Death: Died October 3, 1719 in md, usa

Immediate Family:
Father:
William Cole, ll
Mother:
Elizabeth Harrison Cole
Spouse:
Nathaniel Smith
Children:
Joseph Smith;
Philip Smith;
William Coale Smith;
Elizabeth Smith;
Thomas Smith
and 7 others
Siblings:
Sarah Coale;
Cassandra Giles
Philip Coale
Half Siblings
William Coale, lll;
William Coale, lV;
Thomas Cole;
Elizabeth Chew;
Susannah Gassaway;
Joseph Haslap, Hanslap;
Samuel Talbot;
Edward Talbott, Jr.;
John Talbott

Elizabeth married Smith, Nathan in 1692 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA. Nathan (son of Smith, Thomas and Acton, Elizabeth) was born in 1656 in Calvert, Maryland, USA; died on 23 Nov 1710 in Calvert, Maryland, USA; was buried on 23 Nov 1710 in Calvert, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L6TT-D4Y
• Alternate Birth: 1684, Prince George's, Maryland, USA

Notes:

Elizabeth Selby
From GENi

Elizabeth Selby (Smith)
Birthdate: 1684 (49)
Birthplace: Prince George, , Maryland, USA
Death: Died August 1733 in Prince George, , Maryland, USA
Immediate Family:
Father:
Nathan Smith
Mother:
Elizabeth Coale
Spouse:
William Selby
Children:
Samuel Selby;
Thomas Selby, Sr.;
John SELBY;
Joseph SELBY;
Sarah SELBY;
Susannah SELBY

Elizabeth married Selby, William Jr in UNKNOWN in Maryland, USA. William (son of Selby, William Sr and Steward Parker, Mary) was born in 1680 in Prince George's, Maryland, USA; died on 1 Aug 1733 in Prince George's, Maryland, USA; was buried after 1 Aug 1733 in Frederick, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]