Samuel Thomas 

Samuel Thomas (d. 1807) was a Dissenting minister at Newland Church, Sherborne, Dorset, 1764-72, a village situated between Milborne Port and Yeovil, before removing to a church in the Frenchay, Bristol, 1772-1803, where he also operated a school and where Russell Scott would work for a time after his dismissal from Daventry. Revd Thomas’s wife was a cousin of Mrs. Scott.  See Surman Index, Dr. Williams’s Library, London; Isabella and Catherine Scott, A Family Biography A Family Biography 1662 to 1908 (London: James Nesbet & Co., 1908), 44.