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Thomas West

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Richard Byrd — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 50 
  • Father:
  • John West 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Seaton   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • West Point, King William, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Campbell County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Blair Bolling
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1780 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Martha West

  Eliza Bolling West (Ahnentafel No:25 )

• Sources for Thomas West

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A011830.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 26.
  • ³ Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 75.
  • ⁴ Robertson, Wyndham and R. A. Brock, Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614 . . ., Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph and English (1887), 35.
  • ⁵ Stone, Letta Brock, The West Family Register: Important Lines Traced 1326-1928, Washington, D.C.: W. F. Roberts Company, Inc. (1928), 46.