Thomas Minor

Our Thomas Minor may not have descended from the Conn. Thomas Minor. There were other Minor lines that settled in Va. and Md. from England and Holland. Another Minor family is known to have settled in or around Chester Co. in eastern Pa. that came from Ireland. They are known to have had a Thomas who was heir in the Chester Co. property when the father, Thomas and a son and a daughter died in some epidemic that happened in the mid 1770's. Son Thomas was said to be living "out west". That Thomas may have been the one living in Cumberland Co., Pa. at that time. Another Thomas Minor died in Lancaster Co. in 1749 and he had a son named Thomas who was a child at the time. There is no proof where the Lancaster Co. Thomas came from, but many Scotch-Irish settlers came to that area of Pa. from about the 1730's on and many moved on down to Va. and N. C. Some German settlers came to Pa. from as early as 1730 with names that evolved into Miner or Minor.