MR. THOMAS (RICHARD) THOMAS, REMSEN, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
About the year 1800 the family of Thomas Thomas, settled in the town of Steuben. He had been a sailor and was a victim of the British press gangs. He afterwards lost his right leg in an engagement with a Frech ship; this occurred in 1796, and he was taken to Halifax, thence to Greenwich Hospital, and finally married and returned to America.He died at the age of eighty-seven years, and was the last survivor of the Welsh pioneers of this town.
His sons, William H., Charles M., Didymus and John T., became prominent citizens of Remsen.
Daniel Thomas, brother of Thomas Thomas, became a settler in the town in 1806. He was a stone cutter and hid son T. D. Thomas was a well known farmer in the town.