Here are a number of memorials inscribed as follows:

Sacred to the memory of

Major General THOMAS THOMAS, who died on the 29th May,

A. D. 1824, in the 79th year of his age. As a soldier of the devolution of 1776, he aided in achieving the independence of the Uuited States : as a member of the Legislature of the State of New York, he assisted in laying the foundation of those institutions that are intended to perpetuate the

. Republic.

o Simcoe'a Military Journal, Bartlett & Welford, N. Y., p. 92, 93.

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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Sacred

Sacred to the inemery of Charles Floyd Thomas son of Thomas Thomas, and Catharine Thomas, who died on the 2d of January, A.D. 1802, in the 24th year of his age.

to the memory of Catharine Thomas,

•widow of

Thomas Thomas,

who died the 15th day of

January, A.D. 1825,

in the 79th year of her age.

Sacred to the memory

of

Nancy Thomas,

daughter of Thomas Thomas, and Catharine Thomas, who died in February, 1795, aged 19 years.

Also of Gloriana Thomas, daughter of Thomas Thomas,

and Catharine Thomas, who died Dec. 19, A.D. 1779, aged 7 years.

Any. one who is familiar with the origin of family names in England must know that there are many persons with such patronymics as Field, Wood, Hill, &c, who are in no way related to each other. Apparently the former of these has been hereditary in the Flushing family since the conquest," indicating a (so-called) Norman descent. Lancashire seems to have been the English cradle of this race. It is stated in i4 Burke's Commoners," under the head of Delafield, that Hubertusde la Feld held lands there, (presumibly for military services) in the Third of William I. and that others of the name were proprietors in the same bounty during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.