Capt. Thomas CLAIBORNE

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• Fact: So of Lt. Colonel Thomas Claiborne and Sarah Fenn

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He was captain of dragoons in the King William County militia in 1702. He held 1,000 acres in the county in 1704 and received a patent for the 1,800 acres included in his plantation as "Sweet Hall" on 5 Sep 1723. Thomas was the grandson of Governor William Claiborne of Crayford Parish, co. Kent, who arrived in Jamestown on the ship "George" in Oct 1621. Elizabeth Butler, wife of Governor Claiborne, was of royal and noble ancestry. Governor William Clayborne/Claiborne was an English pioneer, surveyor and an early settler in Virginia and Maryland, who became a wealthy planter, trader and a major figure in the politics of the colony. "William Claiborne may have been the most consistently influential politician in Virginia throughout the whole of the pre-Restoration period," wrote historian Robert Brenner.

Thomas married Ann FOX in 1701 in King William, Virginia. Ann (daughter of Henry FOX, Gent and Ann WEST) was born on 20 May 1684 in King William, Virginia; died on 4 May 1733 in Puddlecoke Manse, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Colonel Nathaniel CLAIBORNE was born in 1716 in Sweet hall Plantation, Old New Kent, Virginia; died on 1 Sep 1756 in Sweet hall Plantation, Old New Kent, Virginia.
2. Colonel Augustine CLAIBORNE was born on 14 Jan 1720/1 in Sweet Hall Plantation, Old New Kent, Virginia; died on 3 May 1787 in Windsor Plantation, Sussex, Virginia.