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My line:
Thomas Jefferson (1653-1687) m. Mary Branch (b. 1657)
Thomas Jefferson (1679-1730) m. Mary Field (1679-1715)
Martha Jefferson (1712-1796) m. Bennett Goode (d. 1771)
Lucy Goode (1760-1826) m. William Marshall (1757-1811)
Elizabeth Marshall (1790-1852) m. Thomas Puryear (d. 1838)
Mary Puryear (1829-1856) m. Thomas L. Jones (1822-1895)
Elizabeth Jones (1855-1925) m. John N. Cole
(1852-1915)
Lucy Cole (1882-1958) m. Plato Tracy
Durham (1873-1930)
Lucy Cole Durham (b. 1925) m. Roscoe
Lee Strickland, Jr. (1917-1997)
Roscoe Lee Strickland III
(b. 1952) --yours truly
According to "Virginia
Cousins," by George Brown Goode, Thomas was the son of John Jefferson from Mt.
Snowden, Wales, who came to Virginia in 1619 on the ship "Bonahara" as one of
three commissioners sent over from England to look into the affairs of the
colony. He was almost immediately made a Burgess, representing Flower de Hundred
in the first Colonial Assembly called by Sir George Yeardley as Governor of
Virginia in 1619. In 1626, he patented land at Archer's Hope, Virginia.
According to "Adventurers of Purse and Person," Thomas is the first certain
Jefferson ancestor of Thomas Jefferson, the president. The John Jefferson who
came in the "Bona Nova" and was in Elizabeth City, 1623/4, and at James City,
1624/5, went to the West Indies by 1628 (MCGC, p. 172) and left no descendants
in Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson was living at Osbornes, on the James River in Henrico County,
Virginia, in 1677. Christopher Branch, of Kingsland on the James River, in his
will dated June 20, 1678, proved February 20, 1681, made a bequest to his
granddaughter, Martha, wife of Thomas Jefferson, and appointed Thomas Jefferson
one of the executors.
Martha petitioned for probate of Thomas's will, now lost, on December 7, 1697.
His estate accounts, mentioning his children Thomas and Martha, were returned
October 1, 1698 (Henrico County Wills & Deeds 1697-1704, p. 114).
Thomas Jefferson, son of above Thomas and grandfather of President Thomas Jefferson, was one of the founders of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1695. He married Mary Field in 1698, and they had six or seven children. In 1704, he owned 492 acres in Henrico County. He was a Justice of Henrico County in 1706, a Sheriff in 1718-19, and he served as a captain in the colonial militia. His will, dated March 15, 1723, was proved in Henrico County, Virginia, in April, 1731. It named his children Peter, Field, Mary, Martha, and Judith.
Martha Jefferson Goode was an aunt of President Thomas Jeffeson. Her will, dated January 11, 1791, was proved in Powhatan County, Virginia, on October 20, 1796.
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