Rees Thomas and Martha Aubrey

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Husband Rees Thomas ¹

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           Born:  - Wales
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           Died: 1743 2
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       Marriage: 18 Jun 1690 - Haverford Meeting, Chester Co, PA 1

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Wife Martha Aubrey ²

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           Born:  - Wales
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           Died: 7 Mar 1727
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         Father: William Aubrey (Abt 1626-1716) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M [Unk] Thomas

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General Notes: Husband - Rees Thomas

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He was the founder of the Thomas family in Pennsylvania.
He came to Pennsylvania from Wales sometime prior to his marriage, June 18, 1690. He became a very prominent man in his section, serving as member of the Colonial Assembly and justice of Philadelphia County, several terms in each office between 1702 and his death in 1743.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Aubrey

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She was a woman much loved and respected in her community for her benevolence and charities. She was for many years an elder of Haverford meeting, Society of Friends, a real "mother in Israel." A quaint little volume of her poems, with a poetical memorial of her, published in 1727, still in existence in the early twentieth century, showed her to have been possessed of considerable poetic and literary ability.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were the parents of five sons and one daughter.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 136.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 137.