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Thomas Nelson

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Thomas Nelson

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Nelson

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 26 Dec 1738 
    • Birth Location:
    • Yorktown, York, Virginia 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 4 Jan 1789 
    • Death Location:
    • Hanover County, Virginia 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Grace Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia 
    • Notes: 

    • Signer of the Declaration of Independence

      Governor of Virginia

  • Marriages for Thomas Nelson

    • Spouse:
    • Lucy Grymes
    • Marriage Date:
    • 29 Jul 1762

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  • Sources for Thomas Nelson

    • 1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 27.
    • 2 Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 197-201.
    • 3 Keith, Charles P., The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America 1889-1893 . . ., Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 37.
    • 4 Lee, Edmund Jennings, Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee . . ., Philadelphia: (1895), 508.
    • 6 Watson, Annah Robinson, Of Sceptred Race, Memphis, TN: Early Printing and Publishing Company (1910), 84.