“When Revolutionary war broke out, Thomas was living in Bedford Co PA. While living on marsh Creek he married Isabella Quate whose father was an Englishman and a Tory, an estrangement ensued between him and his son-in-law, Thomas Paxton, who was a zealous patriot. Reconcilliation after war and the old man visited his children. This I had from my father’s oldest sister Aunt Maria Jane Madison of Marshall IL”

Commissioned Captain in First Battalion of PA Militia commanded by Colonel Geo Wood

Md again after death of Isabella in PA. Md in KY. Left his family in Bedford Co PA and went to KY in 1780, his family followed in 1790. 184