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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Jackson
Given Name:
Thomas
Soundex Code:
J500
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1663
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
about 1680
Place of Indenture
County:
Surry
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"Att a Cort held at Southwarke for the County of Surry July 6th. 1680. ... Tho. Jackson Servant to William Edwards is Adjudged seaventeene yeares of Age & ordered to serve according to Law." (1)
Headright:
"July 6th. 1680. Exit. Certificate is granted Wm. Edwards to the Secretarys Office for Three hundred Acres of Land due for the Importac[i]on into this Collony of himselfe, Fra Everist, Isabella Smith, Tho. Jackson, Joan & Betty Negroes he haveing made oath there never was any Land taken up for any of them." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Weynette Parks Haun, Surry County, Virginia Court Records 1672-1682, Book III (Durham, North Carolina: W.P. Haun, 1989), 124-125, quoting Surry County, Virginia Order Book 1671-1691, Part I, 301-302.