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Thomas Amis (b. 1645, d. Aft. 1697)

Thomas Amis (son of Thomas Amis I and Unknown Unknown)^{137, 138} was born 1645 in France¹³⁹, and died Aft. 1697 in Manakin, Goochland Co, Virginia^{139, 140}. He married Lucy Hayes, daughter of Francis Hayes and Ann Bythell.

Notes for Thomas Amis:
This information is from the Tennessee & North Carolina Archives and has been authenticated/certified It is also contained in a book; Sketches of the Owens, Goodwin, Amis..(etc) Families.

Regards,

Vernon

THE AMIS FAMILY

"AMIS.--Thomas Amis, or Amy, was a Cacique in the Colony of South Carolina in the year 1682; he was a Landgrave in the same Colony in the year 1697.
"The nobility of the Colony were composed first of Landgaves, and second of the Caciques.
" The Charter Granted by the Crown to the proprietors authorized the establishment of a nobility in the Province or Colony, but required that those composing it should be selected from the inhabitants of the Colony.
"The famous 'Fundamental Constitution' of the Colony, written by the philospher Locke, provided for this nobility in Article IX as follows: 'There shall be just as many and no more. These should be hereditary nobility of the provinces, &C; The requirements that the nobility be selected from the inhabitants of the Colony was not always observed, for some of those selected were residents of England or of other Colonies."
The above is from "South Carolina Under Proprietary Government," by Edward McCrady.

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More About Thomas Amis:
Property: 1678, Gloucester Co, Virginia.^{141, 142}

Children of Thomas Amis and Lucy Hayes are:

+Louis Amis, b. 1670, Middlesex, Virginia^{143, 144}, d. 1750, Manakin, Goochland Co, Virginia^{145, 146}.