Researching Nathaniel Thomas
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 123582 people with the Thomas surname? In that year Thomas was ranked number 9 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Nathaniel means "gift of God" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Nathaniel Thomas on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Nathaniel Thomas and the Thomas Family Tree
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Nathaniel Thomas (Massachusetts judge)
Nathaniel Thomas (1643 - 22 October 1718) was an English colonial magistrate, politician, and militia officer. Born in Marshfield, then in the Plymouth Colony, he represented the town in the colonial assembly during the 1670s, and was active in its militia during King Philip's War. In 1689, he served as clerk of the local court, and, following the combining of Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony into the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from 1702 to 1707 he was a Plymouth County probate judge. From 1692 to 1712 he also served as a magistrate in the court of common pleas. In 1712, he was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature (the province's highest court), a position he held until his death in 1718.
He was twice married, with nine children by his first wife.
Source: Nathaniel Thomas (Massachusetts judge), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaNathaniel Phillips Smith Thomas
Nathaniel Phillips Smith Thomas (November 17, 1844 – May 12, 1890) was an American politician.
Thomas, son of Allen M. and Charlotte P. (Smith) Thomas, was born in Wickford, Rhode Island, November 17, 1844. Before entering Yale College he served as Commodore's Aid in the United States Navy. After graduation in 1868 he began the study of law in Providence, but soon went to the Law School of Columbia College, where he completed the course in May, 1870. His professional career began in Minneapolis, but in 1873 he returned to Wickford to reside, and opened the same year a law-office in Providence, where he continued until his death. He built up a good law business, and also took a prominent part in State politics. He was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1874, and again in 1875, and from 1874 to 1879 was Clerk of the Rhode Island State Senate ; he was also for many years Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee. From 1879 to 1889 he was one of the State Commissioners of Shell Fisheries, and gave much time and study to that work. For more than two years he had been a sufferer from angina pectoris, and during a visit to Europe last January he was seriously ill with la grippe and pneumonia, from which he never fully recovered. He died suddenly at his home in Providence, May 12, 1890, in his 46th year. He was unmarried.
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