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Samuel Thomas was the first generation in this country and founder of the Thomas family of S .C. In England his home was in Ballydon, near Sudbury, on the border of Essex and Suffolk counties. He an d his wife Elizabeth had five children. In 1702 he was appointed appointed by the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts as its first missionary to the Province of Carolina, and third to America. His assigned mission was to convert the Yemasee Indians. But the Rev. Thomas ended up ministering to the settlers at Goose Creek and on the Cooper River near Charles Town because the governor, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, determined that the Yemassee Nation was too hostile to allow the missionary to go among them. For a while the Rev. Samuel Thomas made his home with the Governor at his plantation, Silk Hope.
Not long after Rev. Thomas arrived in Carolina, a Rev. Marston of Charles Town began a campaign to discredit him with the officials in the Province and the Society which sent him to Carolina, charging that the Rev. Thomas made no effort to accomplish his mission to Christianize the Indians, but preferred the easy life of a colonial gentleman in Charles Town. In order to clear himself, Rev. Thomas returned to England in 1705, where he contended the Rev. Marston was an ardent Jacobite and possibly a Papist, and that he was openly hostile to King William. He defended his actions in Carolina on the basis that the Indians spoke a barbarous tongue which was incapable of expressing and conveying the truths of Christianity. The Society accepted his explanation and returned him to Carolina to become Governor Johnson's Chaplain. He returned to Carolina in October, 1705 but lived only one year before he was stricken with " the fever" and died. His son Edward came afterward to claim his estate which included 300 acres on the eastern branch of the Cooper River, granted to Rev. Thomas in 1702. His will was recorded at Somerset House on April 19, 1708.
A tablet at St. James Church in Goose Creek reads: "In memory of the Rev. Samuel Thomas of Ballydon, England, 1672-1706. First missionary sent to South Carolina by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. His ministry to the people on Cooper River and at Goose Creek, 1702-1706, invigorated the Infant Church in this part of the Colony and established its foundation. Erected 1905, mainly by the Churches of the Diocese of South Carolina , Laus Deo.
From the "History of the Broun Family and Related Families" compiled by Robert J. Broun, 1971, pages 103-105
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