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Thomas NELSON Jr #55244

26 DEC 1738 - 4 JAN 1789

Personal Information

  • BIRTH: 26 DEC 1738, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA
  • DEATH: 4 JAN 1789, Hanover, Virginia, USA

Notes

Thomas Nelson Jr. was a Founding Father of the United States, general in the Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, and a Virginia planter. In addition to serving many terms in the Virginia General Assembly, he twice represented Virginia in the Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Fellow Virginia legislators elected him to serve as the commonwealth's governor in 1781, the same year he fought as a brigadier general in the siege of Yorktown, the final battle of the war.

Parents

Father: William NELSON #51245

Mother: Elizabeth BURWELL #51246

Family 1 :

Wife: Lucy GRYMES

  • MARRIAGE: 29 JUL 1762, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA
Note:

Children:

  1.  +Francis NELSON #55245
  2.  +Hugh NELSON #55253
  3.  +Mary NELSON #55254
  4.  +Judith NELSON #55255
  5.  +Susanna NELSON #55256
 
 
                                             _Hugh NELSON _______________+
                                            | (1658 - 1708) m 1672       
                       _Thomas NELSON ______|
                      | (1676 - 1745) m 1711|
                      |                     |_Sarah JACKSON _____________
                      |                       (1653 - 1745) m 1672       
 _William NELSON _____|
| (1711 - 1772) m 1737|
|                     |                      _Robert READE ______________+
|                     |                     | (1644 - 1712) m 1681       
|                     |_Margaret READE _____|
|                       (1681 - 1720) m 1711|
|                                           |_Mary LILLY ________________
|                                              m 1681                    
|
|--Thomas NELSON Jr
|  (1738 - 1789)
|                                            _Lewis Fairfield BURWELL II_
|                                           | (1652 - 1710)              
|                      _Nathaniel BURWELL __|
|                     | (1680 - 1721) m 1709|
|                     |                     |_Abigail SMITH _____________
|                     |                       (1655 - 1692)              
|_Elizabeth BURWELL __|
  (1717 - 1798) m 1737|
                      |                      ____________________________
                      |                     |                            
                      |_Elizabeth CARTER ___|
                         m 1709             |
                                            |____________________________

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