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The records and published accounts that the write-ups on this site are built on, from the 1790 census to the 20th century. Each one has its scans, at full size, with a citation and a transcription where there is one. Filter them by type, person or period, or search the transcriptions.
1790 census: Theophilus Thomas
Theophilus Thomas's household in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, in the first United States census.
1800 census: Theophilus Thomas
Theophilus Thomas, still in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, three years before his death.
1810 census: Benjamin Thomas
Benjamin Thomas as head of his own household in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, before the move to Alabama.
1816 Alabama list: Benjamin Thomas
Benjamin Thomas in Madison County, in the 1816 count of the Mississippi Territory, as the DAR printed it in 1955.
Shadrach Thomas's petition for land, 1835
Shadrach D. Thomas asks to be admitted as a colonist of Vehlein's colony, having come to Texas with his wife and four children.
1850 census: Shadrach Thomas
Shadrach Thomas's household in San Augustine County, Texas, in the first census to name everyone in the house.
1852 California census: probably Samuel Brown Thomas
A young miner from Texas in Mariposa County during the gold rush, who is probably Samuel Brown Thomas.
1860 census: Samuel Brown Thomas
Samuel Brown Thomas, still in the California gold country, the year before the Civil War brought him home.
1860 census: Shadrach Thomas
Shadrach Thomas's household in San Augustine County, Texas, in 1860.
Samuel Brown Thomas's officer's card
A card recording his captaincy of Company F, 13th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted), from 27 August 1863.
1880 census: Samuel Brown Thomas
Samuel Brown Thomas and his family at Chireno, in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
The Thomas Book (1896)
Lawrence Buckley Thomas's genealogy of Sir Rhys ap Thomas and his descendants, photographed at the British Library: the title page, the coats of arms, and two appendix pages naming John Thomases of Virginia.
1900 census: Samuel Brown and William Clayborn Thomas
Samuel Brown Thomas and his son William Clayborn, each heading a household in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Samuel Brown Thomas's Confederate pension application
His 1909 application to the State of Texas for a Confederate pension, filled out in his own hand.
Obituary of Capt. Samuel Brown Thomas
His obituary in the Confederate Veteran, from his birth under the Mexican flag to the gold fields and the 13th Texas Cavalry.
Photograph of Samuel Brown Thomas
Samuel Brown Thomas as an old man, white-bearded and in shirtsleeves.
"Major Theophilus Thomas, Esquire" (1956)
Hugh Buckner Johnston's biography of Theophilus Thomas, revolutionary patriot of North Carolina, in the DAR Magazine.
Thomas Cemetery historical marker
The Texas Historical Commission's marker at the Thomas Cemetery, near where Benjamin Thomas's plantation home stood in San Augustine County.
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