Thomas Nelson Jr.
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| name = Thomas Nelson Jr. |
| name = Thomas Nelson Jr. |
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| image = Thomas Nelson |
| image = Thomas Nelson (1700s).jpg |
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| caption = Engraving by [[Henry Bryan Hall]] |
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| order = 4th |
| order = 4th |
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| office = Governor of Virginia |
| office = Governor of Virginia |
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==Early and family life== |
==Early and family life== |
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[[File:Thomas Nelson |
[[File:Thomas Nelson Jr., by Mason Chamberlin.jpg|thumb|Nelson in 1750]] |
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Nelson was the grandson of [[Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson]], an immigrant son of a cloth merchant from Penrith in [[Cumberland, England]], who after three voyages to the Virginia colony settled at and developed [[Yorktown, Virginia|Yorktown]], where the York River drained into Mobjack Bay.Emory Evans, Thomas Nelson of Yorktown: Revolutionary Virginian (University Press of Virginia for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1975 {{ISBN|0-87935-024-5}}) p. 5 During the following three decades, Scotch Tom not only increased his wealth, but parlayed it into influence so that his children (and grandchildren) married into the [[First Families of Virginia]]. Complicating matters, each generation would have at least one boy named to honor the immigrant father, who had accumulated over 6500 acres of land (including choice lots in Yorktown and Williamsburg) by the time of this boy's birth.Evans p. 6 |
Nelson was the grandson of [[Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson]], an immigrant son of a cloth merchant from Penrith in [[Cumberland, England]], who after three voyages to the Virginia colony settled at and developed [[Yorktown, Virginia|Yorktown]], where the York River drained into Mobjack Bay.Emory Evans, Thomas Nelson of Yorktown: Revolutionary Virginian (University Press of Virginia for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1975 {{ISBN|0-87935-024-5}}) p. 5 During the following three decades, Scotch Tom not only increased his wealth, but parlayed it into influence so that his children (and grandchildren) married into the [[First Families of Virginia]]. Complicating matters, each generation would have at least one boy named to honor the immigrant father, who had accumulated over 6500 acres of land (including choice lots in Yorktown and Williamsburg) by the time of this boy's birth.Evans p. 6 |
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