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Thomas Todd (January 23, 1765 – February 7, 1826) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia , he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky , where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice.
Local court records revealed, that he was the brother of Andrew Stone and Captain John Stone, who had been trading, on the Eastern Shore, since 1626. By 1634, William Stone had become a commissioner of the county court. Sometime, prior to February 1636, he married Verlinda Graves, the daughter of Captain Thomas Graves. William went on to become ...
Berkeley Hundred was a Virginia Colony, founded in 1619, which comprised about eight thousand acres (32 km 2) on the north bank of the James River. It was near Herring Creek in an area which is now known as Charles City County, Virginia. It was the site of an early documented Thanksgiving when the settlers landed in what later was the United States
Captain Thomas Townsend was in Rhode Island after the Dutch and English war, and engaged in trading. Later he went to Oyster Bay where he obtained land and built a house around 1673. He was named a patentee securing title to land in 1677. Records indicate Thomas resided in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1686, where he was chosen sheriff in 1696.
On June 20, 1619, he was elected to represent Kecoughtan for the first General Assembly of Virginia. [8] He was a member of the Colony of Virginia in 1620. [7] In 1623 and 1634, Tucker was a member of the House of Burgesses. Called Captain William Tucker, he was an envoy to the Pamunkey Native Americans for the colony. [7] [9]
Thomas Dale, Ralph Hamor, and Thomas Savage ask for the hand of Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas. In May 1614, Thomas Savage was sent with Ralph Hamor to setup an arranged marriage between Thomas Dale and Powhatan's youngest daughter, but the endeavor failed. [7] By 1619, Savage lived at Martin's Brandon plantation.
Liddell was born in 1578. [1] He was the son of Thomas Liddell (d. 1619) by the same's wife Margaret Watson, who was daughter of John Watson Alderman of Newcastle. [2] His paternal grandfather Thomas Liddell of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d. 1577) was a merchant adventurer who had served as Sheriff of Newcastle in 1563-64 and as Mayor of Newcastle in 1572–3.
Sir Thomas Dale (c. 1570 – 19 August 1619) was an English soldier and colonial administrator who served as deputy-governor of the Colony of Virginia in 1611 and again from 1614 to 1616. Dale is best remembered for the energy and the extreme rigour of his administration in Virginia, which established order and in various ways seems to have ...