Notes on Aaron Thomas
There is an account that Moses & Aaron Thomas brothers were sent to this section to look after the interests of the Penn Brothers but they bought their land under the CT claim. Another statement is that in 1750 Moses came to Cushetunk and located
on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware almost directly across from where in modern times the New York Transit Company had a Pump Station. The farm is yet spoken of as the Thomas farm. As one of the older generations of Rosses married a Thomas.
The farm was then called the Ross Farm. Although but little is said of Aaron Thomas he must have filled in his chapter in local affairs. He located below the Cochecton Falls, the same farm being in the possession of the Hockers for a number of
years, supposedly 1 1/2 mi. from his brother Moses. Their first cabins were within the stockade.
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