Marin-San Francisco-Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Roy, Thomas B. 1840 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Thomas B. Roy. Born in Caledonia county, Vermont, November 22, 1840. In 1861
he came to California, arriving in San Francisco in the month of October of that
year, and there remained one year, and on October 1, 1862, removed to Marin
county, where he located on the tract of land known as the White Ranch. In the
Fall of 1865 Mr. Roy proceeded to Contra Costa county where he sojourned for
three years; we next find him relocated, and in 1868, in company with his
brother, James Roy, bought their present farm of four hundred and twenty acres.
Married November 21, 1871, Mary E. Somers, also of Caledonia county, Vermont.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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