Research Notes:
1664 Thomas Curtys [Curtis,Curties] was listed as a graduate in the Derby School Register with headmaster Mr. Hill. Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., 1676. Thomas Curtys was a benefactor of Unstone, in co. Derby, in 1701. [1]
1684 Thomas Curtis [Curtice], perhaps this Thomas Curtis, was named on the list of proprieters and freeholders (the tax assessment list) in the First Tenth for Burlington County, New Jersey as owning 300 acres. [2]
1685 Thomas Curtis purchased 150 acres on the south branch of Birch Creek, adjoining Peter Harvey. [3]
This Thomas Curtis of Derbyshire is different from the family of Thomas and Jane Curtis [4] of Bugbrook. The relationship to Thomas Curtis, woolen draper of Reading and friend of George Fox, if any, is unknown to us.
Clarification: There is another Thomas Curtis (perhaps born 1635), woolen draper of Reading who was married in 1651. The relationship; if any; of Thomas Curtis, draper of Reading,to either Thomas Curtis, baptized 1 March 1597/98 at North Wingfield, Derbyshire, married to Joane Clay, or to their son, Thomas, baptized 1642, is unknown to us. We are researching the line of Thomas Curtis of Derbyshire at this website. Several researchers link facts about Thomas Curtis of Bugbrooke, Thomas Curtis of Reading, and Thomas Curtis of Derbyshire, although there appears to be no evidence to support such a link.
[1] B Tacchella, The Derby School Register 1570-1901 (1902), 5, of 4-5, [GoogleBooks].
[2] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 31.
[3] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 359, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Thomas Curtis of Bugbrooke, [JRWolfeGenealogy].