Legal and Financial Records, 1793-1816

This series consists of six documents covering the years 1793 to 1816 relating to various members of the Thomas family.

The first document is a letter dated 1806 containing a copy of the 17 May 1793 will between Ann Thomas (mother of Philip Thomas Esquire) and her daughter Ann Pemberton. The will appears to be the primary issue discussed in the 1807 letter by Charles Wharton to Philip Thomas Senior that mentions the "claim set up against you [Philip Thomas Senior] by the Pembertons" over Thomas's mother's estate. The records to not indicate how the matter was resolved. The attached letter written in 1806 declared that the 1793 will did not specify an executor and that the position was assigned to Philip Thomas by Cecil County.

The five additional documents in this series include a bond between Philip Thomas Senior and his mother Ann Thomas for 3000 Pounds Sterling dated July 1794; the will of Philip Thomas Esquire dated April 1809; an 1808 land indenture between Philip and his wife Frances Mary with Jeremiah Millar for lands in New London, Connecticut; and an 1816 document from the state of Maryland appointing Philip Thomas [Junior] as Brigade Major and Brigade Inspector of the first brigade of the Maryland Militia. In addition there is an 1808 Bill of Sale in which Philip Thomas Senior sold all people he enslaved, goods, and chattels on "Claybourns Island commonly known by the name of Sharps Island in Talbot County" to his son Philip Junior.

Arrangement is chronological.