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| Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, p. 322. William Traverse Colston was the son of Captain William Colston (1744- 1777) and his wife, Lucy Landon Carter who were married in 1775. Lucy Landon Carter was the daughter of Colonel Landon Carter (1710- 1778) and his wife, Elizabeth Beal. Colonel Landon Carter assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of enrolling the militia to defend the colony. The source for this is Schraaf’s History and Archives of Maryland, note no. 86727. Joshua Howard Thomas was born March 10, 1804, the son of Samuel Thomas (1776-n.d.) and Mary Howard. He was a doctor, practicing from 1825 to 1839 in Frederick County, Virginia, near Winchester, and then in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. In 1851 Dr. Thomas represented Breckinridge County in the Kentucky legislature. He took the side of the Union in the Civil War. In 1873 he moved to Elizabethtown and joined his brother, Samuel B. Thomas, in private banking. He died September 10, 1886 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Samuel Thomas was born November 13, 1776, the son of Samuel Thomas (1753-n.d.) who settled in Montgomery County, Maryland, and who married Mary Cowman, daughter of John Cowman, on October 31, 1775. Samuel Thomas was born December 2, 1753, the son of Richard Thomas (1728-n.d.) and Sarah, daughter of Skipwith and Margaret Holland Coale. Richard Thomas was born about 1728, the son of John Thomas (1697-1749 or 50) and Elizabeth Snowden, daughter of Richard and Mary Snowden. John Thomas was born April 15, 1697, the son of Samuel Thomas and Mary Hutchins, and married Elizabeth in April of 1727. He died in February of 1749 or 50. Samuel Thomas was born in about 1655, the son of Philip and Sarah Harrison. He was probably a minister of the Society of Friends as early as August 4, 1686, when Herring Creek quarterly meeting approved of his proposal to attend the yearly meeting at Philadelphia. On April 13, 1688, he was appointed to a Committee on "drowsiness" by the West River meeting. He held 72 acres of Talbot's ridge, north side of West River, surveyed in 1674, and after 1698, at a rental of 6s.8d., 200 acres of Lordship's manor on the Ridge. He married on May 15, 1688, at his own house in Anne Arundel County, Mary, daughter of Francis Hutchins of Calvert County. Philip Thomas was born in England before 1651 and there married Sarah Harrison who survived him, dying early in 1687. 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, KG, and will be confirmed by further investigations. 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, "inconsideration 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. The source for this is The Thomas Book, by Lawrence Buckley Thomas, DD, published in New York City by The Henry T. Thomas Company, 1896, pp. 27-55. Mary Howard was the daughter of Joshua Howard and Rebecca Owings. Joshua Howard was the son of Sir Henry Howard, born in England and came to the Province of Maryland in 1706, and married to Sarah Dorsey, daughter of John and Honor Elder. The Howards, Dukes of Norfolk, stand next to the blood royal at the head of the peerage of England, and are undoubtedly of Saxon origin. Howard, or Hereward, was living in the reign of King Edgar (957-973) and was a kinsman of Duke Oslac. His son, Leofric, was the father of Hereward, who was banished by William the Conqueror. Hereward's grandson, Hereward, or Howard, was granted land in Norfolk by Henry II. Sir William Howard (1297-1308) was Chief Justice of Common Pleas. It would be useless, however, to follow the intricate genealogy of the Howards. John Howard was created Duke of Norfolk in 1483, and his direct descendants have retained that honor until the present day. Catherine, the niece of the second Duke, was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. The son of the third Duke, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was a famous poet. The house of Howard is divided into numerous branches, the Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, of Carlisle, of Effingham, of Wicklow, Barons of Lanerton and many others. The third son of Sir Henry Howard married a Miss Rebecca Owings, immigrated to America and became the progenitor of the Howards of Maryland and Washington. To this family belongs Colonel John Eager Howard, who rose to distinction in the Revolutionary War, was Governor of Maryland for three terms and member of the first Senate of the United States. His son, George, was also Governor of Maryland and a friend of Henry Clay. (The source of this is The Thomas Book, by Lawrence Buckley Thomas, DD, published in New York City by The Henry T. Thomas Company, 1896, panda newspaper clipping contained therein regarding the Howards of England) William Traverse Colston was the son of Capt. William Colston (1744-1777) and Lucy Landon Carter who were married in 1775. Lucy Landon Carter was the daughter of Col. Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his wife, Elizabeth Beal. Col. Landon Carter assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of Enrolling the Militia to defend the colony. The source for this is Schraaf's History & Archives of Maryland. See Nat. Nv. 8 to 727. Download 1.62 Mb. Share with your friends:
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