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Personal data Thomas Jefferson 

• He was born in the year 1656 in St. Christopher Island, British West Indies.Source 3
• He died on December 1, 1697 in Osborne's Plantation, James River, Henrico Co., Virginia, he was 41 years old.Source 3
• A child of Captain Samuel Jefferson and Elizabeth Deeley

Household of Thomas Jefferson

He is married to Mary Branch.

They got married in the year 1678 at Henrico County, Virginia, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Captain Thomas Jefferson  1677-1731 
2. Mary "Martha" Jefferson  1679-1745 
3. Martha Jefferson  1682-1752

Notes about Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (son of Samuel Jeafferson III) was born 1656 in St. Christopher's Island, West Indies, and died Bef. December 01, 1697 in Charles City Co. Virginia. He married Mary Branch on Abt. 1677 in Henrico Co. Virginia.

Parents: Samuel & (Elizabeth.) Or - Thomas's father may have been a John Jefferson who arrived in 1619 aboard the ship Bonahora ("Thomas Jefferson," by William Eleroy Curtis).

He married Mary Branch in 1677/8. She survived him and married Joseph Mattox second.

Children

Thomas Jefferson (1677 - 1731)
Mary (Jefferson) Harris (1680 - 1745)

notes

From http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/y/Lyndall-J-Mayes/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0115.html

Thomas Jefferson I, the son of Samuel Jefferson III (his mother's identity is unknown), was born in 1656 on St. Christopher's Island in the British West Indies where his father had owned a tobacco plantation since 1624. The family (plus Thomas's two brothers) moved to Antigua in the Leeward Islands about 1669 when Thomas was about 15. As a young adult Thomas moved from the West Indies to Henrico Co., Virginia. He settled at Osborne's, across the James River from Farrar's Island, where Mount Malada had once stood below present day Richmond. Before 1678 Thomas Jefferson I married Mary Branch, the daughter of Christopher Branch, Jr. and Sarah Almond neighbors at "Kingland." Mary's identity was proven from her grandfather Christopher Branch's will of 1681 in which he named her "my granddaughter Mary Branch, wife of Thomas Jefferson." Thomas also benefited from receiving one fifth of his father-in-laws estate left to Mary Branch in 1668 when she was about ten years old.

"He went forward on the road to fortune and a genteel station..." Thomas Jefferson I's name appears with some frequency in the archives of Henrico County. He was a surveyor *"one of ye surveyors of ye highways" (a profession in which his descendants dutifully followed him); as a man of recognized integrity he appeared on the roll of jurors several times, appraised estates and served as executor of wills; he paid taxes for the maintanence of soldiers; and he was evidently an excellent shot, for he collected a good many bounties which the colony offered for the extermination of wolves. The enterprising Thomas Jefferson entered as a squatter on some virgin forest land further up the James River near the falls, only to discover that it had already been granted to that prince of speculators, William Byrd. The defect in the title was cured in 1682, however, by the purchase of the 167 acres in question on the southside of the James River in the Curles of William Byrd.

"Kingsland" home of the Branch family, just west of Farrar's Island, was also near Osborne, home of the Jefferson's. They were all neighbors of the Fields, Randolphs and Eppes and closely associated as justices, burgesses and officers of the militia, etc. Thomas Jefferson I owned several slaves, enough to produce nearly two tons of tobacco a year. Even after accumulating a modest fortune, Jefferson was nevertheless referred to as "mister," rather that "esquire," indicating he was less than prominent in the colony.

When Thomas Jefferson I died in 1697 he left a fairly adequate estate for the benefit of his wife and two children. Exclusive of Negro slaves and crops, it came to a valuation of some 97 pounds, a respectable total for the period. His will included such hints of luxury as "an old silver dram cup, buttons and shoe buckles." Mary Branch Jefferson served as executrix of the estate as decreed in Henrico Court on December 1, 1697 when it ordered the division of the estate as specified in the will between wife Mary Jefferson, son Thomas Jefferson II (age 20) and daughter Martha Jefferson. The date of Thomas Jefferson I's death is estimated as prior to this court record date. Three years later, April 1, 1701, Mary Jefferson, relict of Thomas Jefferson, married Joseph Mattox of Charles City County, by which time the Jefferson children were all grown.
sources

Branchiana: being a partial account of the Branch family in Virginia by James Branch Cabell. Published 1907 by Printed by Whittet & Shepperson in Richmond, Va . Written in English. Page 32. Mary Branch married first [before 1678] Thomas Jefferson of Henrico (grandfather of the President) and second, Joseph Maddox.
"Some Farrar's Island Descendants" by Alvahn Holmes.
"Thomas Jefferson A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall.
"Thomas Jefferson A Biography" by Nathan Schachner
Cavaliers and Pioneers
"Jefferson The Virginian" by Dumas Malone

more notes

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BRANCH/2002-05/1022771200

Some believe Mary BRANCH's husband, Thomas (1) JEFFERSON to have been the son of Samuel JEFFERSON, aka JEAFFRESON and brother of (Captain) John JEFFERSON, first of his family to actually immigrate to Virginia but Samuel was the first to stay in Virginia after immigrating as, according to my understanding, and (Capt.) John JEFFERSON later returned to live in England.

Samuel JEFFERSON and brother, (Captain) John JEFFERSON are believed to have journeyed with friend and neighbor, (Sir) Thomas WARNER, to the Leeward journeyed with friend and neighbor, (Sir) Thomas WARNER, to the Leeward Islands, (including St. Kitt's/St. Catherine's,) where he became Governor of the Leeward Islands for life, and died in the Leeward Islands,) along with approximately 12-14 other individuals who were colonizing the islands. Later the JEFFERSONs and descendants along with descendants of WARNER immigrated to Virginia.

From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cnoelldunc/Virginia/Jefferson/D1.htm

+ 3 M i. Thomas Jefferson (son of Samuel & Elizabeth) was born in 1653 in Curles, James River, Henrico County, Virginia and died in Oct 1697 in Henrico County, Virginia, at age 44. Thomas married Mary Martha Branch (b. 1660) in 1677.

Branchiana: being a partial account of the Branch family in Virginia by James Branch Cabell. Published 1907 by Printed by Whittet & Shepperson in Richmond, Va . Written in English. Page 32

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Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
* 1 Curtis, William Eleroy, Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott Company (1901), 19.
* 2 Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 370.
* 3 Grubbs, Lillie Martin, Martin and Allied Families, Columbus, Georgia: (1946), 204.
* 4 McLean, Dabney N., The English Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company for Clearfield Company (1996), 58.
* 5 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
* 6 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 507.

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