Family/Spouse: John Budd. John and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michael married Hannah Anderson in 1815 in Cochecton Falls. Hannah (daughter of William Stephen Anderson and Charity Thomas) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William + Charity Thomas. Charity (daughter of Aaron Thomas, Sr. and Alice Chichester) was born in 1755 in Fairfield Co., CT; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Bradeley 1927 newspaper article, Wayne Independent
Source: Ruth Molloy & Penelope Branning, Skinner file, Census, History books.

m. Matthew or Mathias Calkins per Calkin file.
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Source: Bradley 1927newspaper Article Wayne Independent
Source:Ruth Molloy & Penelope Branning
Skinner file,Census,History bks.
m. Matthew or Mathias Calkins per Calkin file

per The Thomas Saga: p.77 During the beginning years when searching for information about the early Thomas family members I kept running into one name that people would mention with a lifted eyebrow - Charity -Aaron Thomas' fifth daughter. It appears that Charity had been greatly maligned these many years with a scandalous story of three of four different husbands. This had even been found in print and naturally accepted as truth. Charity Thomas married Jonathan Dexter, and was the mother of Jonathan Dexter II, born in 1774. Now it is patently impossible that she would be the mother of two more babies born that same year; Oliver Calkins, born 1774, who was supposed to have married Hannah Thomas, daughter of Moses II, and Hannah Anderson also born in 1774, who they say married Michael Branning. Obviously Oliver Calkins and Hannah Anderson do not belong to Charity.
Jonathan and Charity had two known children, Jonathan II (born 1774) and his sister Louise, and no doubt several more. A bit of family lore was the fact that their grandson, Aaron Dexter, born June 9, 1796, married Mary Thomas in 1817, the daughter of his great-uncle Joseph Thomas, his grandmother Charity's brother, They lived in Tyler Hill, Pennsylvania and had four boys and five girls. Some time after 1850 they moved west along with a Calkin family.
Charity may have married a second time after Jonathan died or was divorced, to a Mr. Anderson, but she never married an Oliver Calkins for they are all identified, with proof of wives and dates. Charity's descendants are found in the back of this book.

"The Thomas Saga" by Marjorie T. Anderson, 1991 @ Equinunk Historical Society in 1997, Boonville Graphics Inc.

Notes:

There is a conflict in my notes from Beverly Branning.
One report from the WFT gives Aaron's wife as Zipporah Button b. abt. 1759.
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Aaron and his brother Moses of Fairfield Co., CT had settled about 1657 at Cushetunk, now Milanville, on the PA bank of the Delaware River. This was a daring move as it was made during the hostilities of the French and Indian War. They built a small fort at Milanville and engaged in farming. Moses lived in the fort, while Aaron settled about one half mi. north. In 1763 Delaware Indians attacked the fort, killing Moses and Jedediah Willis. Aaron Thomas had moved his family to safety before the attack but returned after the war ended. Aaron continued to live near Milanville until his death between 1800 and 1810. He is alleged to have been buried in the Overlook Cemetery at Damascus. (Popielarz).
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Aaron married Alice Chichester on 14 Apr 1747 in Suffield, Hartford Co., CT. Alice (daughter of William Chidester and Eunice Hollister) was born on 17 Jun 1728 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., CT; died before 1810 in Milanville, Wayne Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]