Marin County Biographies

THOMAS B. ROY

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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           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.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880