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Notes and Bibliography

Chapter I

  1. Jester, Annie Lash and Hiden, Martha Woodroof, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1606-1625. Princeton, N.J., 1956.
  2. Wertenbaker, Thomas J., The Planters of Colonial Virginia. Russell and Russell, New York, 1922. Reprinted by Princeton University Press, 1955.
  3. Smith, Annie L.W., The Quit Rents of Virginia: 1704. Tucson, Arizona, 1957.
  4. Nugent, Nell Marion, Cavaliers and Pioneers. Richmond, Virginia, 1934.
  5. Bodie, John Bennett, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Chicago, 1938.
  6. Cross, Mrs. Evelyn Hurff, Nansemond Chronicles, 1606-1800.
  7. Data on the family of Richard Thomas are from: Land Grant Book, Virginia Department of Archives; and from the Will and Deed Books, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. (Sources examined by Mr. Hugh B. Johnston, Jr., of Wilson, North Carolina and data furnished by him.)

Chapter II

  1. Wertenbaker, Thomas J., The Golden Age of Colonial Culture. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1967.
  2. Turner, J. Kelley, and Bridgers, John Jr., History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Edwards and Broughton Publishing Company, Raleigh, N.C., 1920.
  3. Lumpkin, William M., Baptist Foundations in the South, Broadman Press. Nashville, Tennessee, 1961.
  4. Gewehr, Wesley M., The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790. Gloucester, Mass., 1965 (Copyrighted in 1930).
  5. All land sales are based on the work of Mr. Hugh B. Johnston, Jr., of Wilson, N.C. who has extensively reviewed the Court House documents in Wilson, Edgecombe, and Halifax Counties, and at the State Archives in Raleigh.
  6. Merrens, Harry Roy, Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Historical Geography. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1964.
  7. Lefler, Hugh T. and Powell, Wm. S., Colonial North Carolina, a History. Charles Scribner, New York, 1973.
  8. Edwards, Morgan. His extensive notes taken in the 1770's were never published. His notes are now on file in the Furman University Library in South Carolina. Copies are in possession of Mr. Hugh Johnston, Jr., of Wilson, N.C.
  9. Ahlstrom, Sidney E., A Religious History of the American People, Vol. I. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1975.
  10. Burkitt, Lemuel, and Read, Jesse, A Concise History of the Kehukee Association. Halifax, N.C., 1803.
  11. Williams, Ruth Smith, and Griffin, Margarette Glenn, Abstracts of the Wills of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1733-1856. Dixie Letter Service, Rocky Mount, N.C., 1956.

Chapter III

  1. Clark, Thomas D., Frontier America: The Story of the Westward Movement. Scribner, New York, 1969.
  2. Record, James, A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County. John Hicklin Printing Company, Huntsville, Alabama, 1970.
  3. Census Report inspected at Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery. The original report, first published in 1917 and now out of print, was reprinted in 1955 by the Broken Arrow Chapter of the DAR, with an index.
  4. Johnson, Dorothy Scott (Compiler), Madison County, Alabama Deed Books A, B, C, D, E, 1810-1819. A Johnson Historical Publication, Huntsville, Alabama, 1976. (The foreword says this includes every deed transaction in the County during the Territorial Days, i.e., through November 1819. Alabama was admitted as a State on December 14, 1819.)
  5. The U.S. Census for Alabama was compiled by the Alabama Historical Association and published in Vol. VI, No. 3 of the Alabama Historical Quarterly. This original report, which is also in book form, does not include the data for Lawrence County. Later, however, the data for Lawrence County were located and are now available in the separate report at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
  6. Alabama Records. A compilation, published in nearly 200 volumes, of miscellaneous records of early Alabama, including marriages and births, probate records, etc. On file in the Alabama Department of Archives and History; most are in the Dallas Public Library.
  7. Dorian, Edith and Tilson, W. N. (Eds.) Trails West and the Men Who Made Them. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York City, 1955.
  8. Conveyances Book 12, p. 84. (Information provided by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mills, a certified genealogical researcher, now living in Gadsen, Alabama. She has her own copy of the microfilms of these early records.)
  9. Crocket, George L., Two Centuries in East Texas, A History of San Augustine County and Surrounding Territory. First published in 1932, reprinted by the Southwest Press, Dallas, Texas, 1962. (A gold mine of information for any family that lived in San Augustine County.)
  10. Hogan, William Hanson, The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla., 1946.
  11. Tinch, Helen Pearl, Days of Colonial Texas. American Museum Society of Houston Baptist College, Houston, Texas. No date given.
  12. Existing copies of the Courier have been microfilmed, and are available at the Library of Congress. The films have been reviewed for the author by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mills of Gadsen, Alabama.
  13. deCordova, J., Texas: Her Resources and Her Public Men, 1858. 404 pp. (Reprinted by Texian Press, Waco, 1969.)
  14. Richardson, Rupert H., Texas: The Lone Star State (2nd edition). Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1958.
  15. General Land Office of Texas, Abstract of Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office. Pemberton Press, Austin, Texas, 1964.
  16. Texas State Legislature, Abstract of Land Claims, Compiled from Records of the General Land Office. Published in 1852 by Civilian Book Shop, Galveston, Texas, at the direction of the State Legislature.
  17. Taylor, Virginia H., The Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas. Lone Star Press, Austin, 1955.
  18. Miller, Thomas L., Bounty and Donation Land Grants, 1845-1888. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1967.
  19. Mullins, Marion Day, First Census of Texas, 1829-1836, to which are Added Texas Citizenship Lists, 1821-1845 and other Early Records of the Republic of Texas. Reprinted from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Washington, D.C., 1959.
  20. White, Gifford (Editor), 1840 Census of Republic of Texas, Pemberton Press, Austin, 1966.
  21. Records of the General Land Office, Austin, Texas.
  22. San Augustine County probate records.

Chapter IV

  1. These stories were published in a Beaumont newspaper in 1924 when Victoria (Thomas) Polk died; and in a San Augustine newspaper in 1933 when Penelope (Thomas) Crouch died.
  2. Newton, Lewis W. and Gambrell, Herbert P., A Social and Political History of Texas. Turner Company, Dallas, Texas, 1935.
  3. Murrie, Pauline (Compiler), Marriage Records of Nacogdoches County, 1824-1881. Houston, Texas, 1968.
  4. Roberts, Emily Griffith, Four Families: Ancestral Study of Roberts, Griffith, Cartwright, and Simpson Families. Privately printed in Dallas, 1948, 2 volumes. (These volumes contain a tremendous amount of data on early San Augustine families. Much of the material, however, is based on family tradition which sometimes is in contradiction.)
  5. Published in the Houston Post, in a two-part series in the Sunday Supplement, on May 13 and 20, 1934. (The reporter got his data from Lou Kemp, a well-known historian of early Texas.)
  6. Red, William Stuart, The Texas Colonists and Religion, 1821-1836. E. S. Shuttles, Austin, Texas, 1924.
  7. Devereaux, Linda Ericson, Tales from the Old Stone Fort, Piney Wood Printing Co., Lufkin, Texas, 1976. 110 pp.
  8. Kemp, Louis and Dixon, Samuel H., The Heroes of San Jacinto. Anson Jones Press, Houston, 1932.
  9. Archives of the State of Texas, Austin.
  10. Raymond, Mary (Thomas), Texas Heritage. Unpublished manuscript, 200 pages. (Written about 1930 by a daughter of I.D. Thomas's youngest son. Manuscript in possession of the author.)
  11. Tax rolls of San Augustine County. Originals in State Archives; microfilm copy in Dallas Public Library.
  12. Journal and Advertiser and The Redlander. Only scattered copies survive. They are on microfilm in the Dallas Public Library.
  13. Probate records, Office of San Augustine County Clerk.
  14. Wooster, Ralph A., "East of the Trinity: Glimpses of Life in East Texas in the early 1850's", Journal of East Texas Society. Vol. XIII, No. 2, Fall, 1975.
  15. Mullins, Marion Day (Compiler), Republic of Texas Poll Lists for 1846. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1974.
  16. "Marriage Records of San Augustine, Texas, 1837-1843", Dallas Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, June 1977.
  17. Thrall, Homer S., A Brief History of Methodism in Texas. Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Nashville, Tenn., 1889.
  18. Sweet, William Warren, Religion on the American Frontier, 1783-1840. (Volume IV relates solely to the Methodist denomination; pages 567-571 reproduce the minutes of the San Augustine Conference from 1837 to 1852.)
  19. The Federal Census of 1850, State of Texas. (Compiled, with index, by Mrs. V.K. Carpenter, Greenville, Miss.) Complete set in the Dallas Public Library.
  20. Fehrenbach, T.R., Lone Star State: A History of Texas and the Texans. The Macmillan Company, Toronto, Canada, 1968.
  21. The original diary is in the possession of Richard Thomas Raymond (grandson of James E. Thomas), Gotham Street Road, Watertown, N.Y., 13601.
  22. San Augustine County Probate Records.

Chapter V

  1. Early Records of Nacogdoches County, Abstracted and compiled by Pauline Shirley Murrie, Waco, Texas, 1965. (Compiled from original documents in State Archives, Austin, Texas.)
  2. Hopkins County Tax Rolls, 1847-1910. On microfilm, Dallas Public Library.
  3. Orren, G.G., The History of Hopkins County. M.A. Thesis, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, 1938.
  4. Sulphur Springs News Telegram, Centennial Edition, July 4, 1954. (Most of the historical articles were written by Kenneth and Sidney Brice.)
  5. _____, Issue of December 2, 1971, which was the centennial observance of the closure of the post office at Tarrant, the first county seat of Hopkins County.
  6. deCordova, J., Texas: Her Resources and Her Public Men, 1858, 404 pages. (Reprinted by Texian Press, Waco, Texas, 1969.)
  7. Office of the County Clerk, Hopkins County.
  8. County Clerk, Morris County. Deed Book, Vol. C, p. 309.
  9. Archives of the United States, Confederate military records.
  10. The Buck Thomas family Bible is now in the possession of the Jim Thomas heirs in Sulphur Springs. Someone apparently made an error in listing the names of "Little I.D." and "the second little I.D." As already noted, the grandfather of these children was known almost exclusively by his initials. Whoever made the entry did not know, or had forgotten, what his middle initial stood for.
  11. Thomas, H.Bascom, Hopkins County, 1895, 52 pp. (Edited and published by the Sulphur Springs Gazette while Bascom Thomas was its editor and publisher.)
  12. Phelan, Marcum, A History of Early Methodism in Texas, 1817-1866., 1924. (Copy in Perkins School of Theology Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.)
  13. McTyeire, Holland N., A History of Methodism, 1884. (Copy at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Dallas.)
  14. Flanagan, Sue, Sam Houston's Texas. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1964.
  15. Texas Almanac, 1904 and 1911 editions.
  16. Edwards, John A., Leisure Activities of Texas During Reconstruction. East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas. M.A. Thesis, 1970.
  17. Fleming, E.B., Early History of Hopkins County, 1902. (Reprinted in 1976 by the Hopkins County Historical Society.)

Chapter VI

  1. Letters written by Mack Thomas between 1895 and 1905 now in the possession of Mrs. Madeline (Thomas) Nolen.
  2. Office of the County Superintendent of Schools, Hopkins County.
  3. Catalogue for Eastman College, 1895. In the possession of Mrs. Jean Tuck, Hopkins County Historical Association.
  4. Letters written by E.M. Thomas between 1895 and 1905 now in the possession of Rose (Thomas) Phillips, his daughter.
  5. Holderness, Marvin E., History and Genealogy of the Holderness Family. Privately printed in New York, 1958.
  6. Criminal Court Minutes, Hopkins County Court House.
  7. Dallas Morning News. On microfilm, Dallas Public Library.
  8. Minutes of the City Commissioners, Sulphur Springs City Hall.
  9. County Clerk's office, Hopkins County. Probate Record.
  10. Alexander, Charles C., The Ku Klux Klan in Texas, 1920-1930. Texas Gulf Historical Association, Vol. VI, No. 1, August 1962.
  11. Minutes of the City Commissioners, Ennis, Texas.
  12. Benton, Minnie King, Boomtown, A Portrait of Burkburnett. 1972.