Charity Thomas^[1]

1755 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Charity Thomas  [2, 3]
  Birth	1755	Fairfield Co., CT   [4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I6534	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Aaron Thomas, Sr.,   b. 1 Oct 1723, Somers, Tolland Co., CT d. Between 1800 and 1810, Milanville, Wayne Co., PA (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Alice Chichester,   b. 17 Jun 1728, Wallingford, New Haven Co., CT d. Bef 1810, Milanville, Wayne Co., PA (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F66496	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	William Stephen Anderson   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Phebe Anderson   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Rodney Anderson   d. Yes, date unknown   3. William Anderson, Jr.   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Martha Anderson   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Hannah Anderson   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F56146	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mathias Calkins   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Oliver Calkins
  Family ID	F23693	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

  Family 3	Jonathan Dexter, Sr.,   b. 20 Aug 1753, Litchfield Co., CT d. Bef 1790, Prob. Narrowsburg, NY (Age 36 years)
  Children	1. Jonathan Dexter, Jr.,   b. 1774, Connecticut, USA d. Between 1824 and 1830 (Age 50 years)   2. Louisa Dexter,   b. Abt 1776   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F66486	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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

  
  

• Sources

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