In a letter addressed to the secretary of that society, Oct. 18th, 1724, he says, "Good sir, give my humble duty to the Honorable Society, and assure them of my utmost fidelity, as far as lame limbs and a decrepit state of health will permit. My heart is warm and sound, though lodged, God knows, in a crazy, broken carcase; nay, more, pray tell them that Epaminondas like, I shall fight upon the stumps for that purest and best of Churches, as long as God indulges me with the least ability do it." "After this," continues Dr. Carmichael, "we find no more letters from Mr. Thomas to the Society, whose distinguished ornament he was, and presume from other circumstances, that he died near about that time ; but, in the Society's Annual Report, printed in London, Feb. 16th, 1827, we have discovered the following touching memento, viz., a gratuity of ^50, to Mrs. Thomas, is voted, the widow of the late Rev. Mr. Thomas, missionary at Hempstead, in New York, in consideration of his long and faithful services, upwards of twenty years."*1

His eldest son, was the Hon. John Thomas, (already alluded to) first Judge of the county of Westchester, and for many years a representative in the general assembly of the province. This distinguished gentleman was a warm whig, and took an active part in the scenes that preceded the Revolution, on which account he was particularly obnoxious to the enemy. Judge Thomas was seized in his bed by a party of British troops, at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, March 22d, 1777, and conveyed to New York where he was committed to the provost. Here he lingered until the 2d of May, 1777, when (between four and five o'clock in the morning of that day,) death released him from his sufferings.