Thomas Swann
Member of the House of Burgesses for Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia
In office
1703-1704
Preceded byThomas Milner
Succeeded byDaniel Sullivan
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for Surry County, Colony of Virginia
In office
1693-1699
Preceded bySamuel Swann
Succeeded byThomas Holt
In office
1679-April 1682
Preceded bySamuel Swann
Succeeded byArthur Allen II
Personal details
BornOctober 1659
Swann's Point Plantation, Surry County, Colony of Virginia
DiedNansemond County, Virginia
SpouseEliza Thompson
ChildrenSamuel Swann, Thomas Swann Jr. and three others
Parent(s)Thomas Swann, Mary Mansfield
RelativesSamuel Swann (burgess) (brother)
Occupationtavernkeeper, militia officer, planter, politician

Thomas Swannn Jr. (ca.1650-1704) was a planter, militia officer and politician in the Colony of Virginia who represented first his native Surry County and later Nansemond County in the House of Burgesses.[1][2]

Early and family life

Born to the widowed Mary Mansfield and her planter and politician husband Thomas Swann, he had an elder half-brother Samuel Swann who administered his father's estate with his stepmother.

Career

He was elected sheriff of Surry county in 1697.[3] Surry County voters elected him as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses in 1695, re-elected him in 1696 and again elected him in 1698.[4] Both times he won election to the House (but of course not when he won re-election), Swann succeeded his elder half brother Samuel Swann, who eventually moved to North Carolina.

Personal life

He married Elizabeth (Eliza), the daughter of William Thompson of Nansemond county, and their eldest son Thompson Swann, became clerk of Cumberland County, serving from 1754 until 1781.[3]

Death and legacy

He died in 1704 or 1705.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. I. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 334.
  2. ↑ McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. OCLC 812189309.
  3. 1 2 3 Tyler 1915
  4. ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp.44, 46, 54, 57, 58, 62
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