Thomas WILLIAMS

  General Notes:

Of Bay Bull?

http://ngb.chebucto.org/Wills/1pcc-wills-idx.shtml
Will probated 1749, Thomas Williams

http://www.swvp.ca/Walesnames.pdf

William Vaughan
There is growing interest, as evidenced by the Sir William Vaughan Project, in the early modern Welsh presence in Newfoundland, and in particular, the settlement enterprises (plantations) of William Vaughan. He was a Welsh gentleman, writer, lawyer, functionary, and businessman; born to a rich and influential Welsh family in 1577, Vaughan was knighted late in life and died in 1642. He published one of the seminal Discourses on Newfoundland's virtues as a generator of English enterprise, as a base for international defences, and as a rich natural resources repository - The Golden Fleece .
Vaughan was supposedly in New Cambriol (now Trepassey Harbour) about 1625 and perhaps spent a couple of years organizing and managing his settlement's affairs; there is no evidence as yet discovered to support this assertion. The Trepassey effort was Vaughan's third, two failed attempts in the Aquaforte and Renews area, further north along the Southern Avalon's eastern coast, dated between 1616 and 1618. 1
Historicity
Only one Welsh Newfoundland name has a traditional link to Vaughan 9. A Williams family of Bay Bulls claims descent from Vaughan's settlement, having moving northwards along the coast from Trepassey to Bay Bulls, and recorded there in 1675 .

Thomas married.