Thomas Barbour (Virginia)

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Thomas Barbour (1735 - May 16, 1825) was a prominent landowner and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Barbour was the father of James Barbour (18th Governor of Virginia and 11th United States Secretary of War) and Philip Pendleton Barbour (U.S. Congressman from Virginia and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court).

Thomas Barbour was born in 1735 in Orange County, Virginia. [1] Barbour married Mary Pendleton Thomas, a first cousin of Edmund Pendleton, in 1771. Barbour served as Justice of the Peace for Orange County and held the position from 1768 until his death. From 1769 until 1775, Barbour represented Orange County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Thomas died at Barboursville in 1825.

[edit] Children and grandchildren[1]

  • James Barbour (June 10, 1775-June 7, 1842), married Lucy Johnson
    • Lucy Maria Barbour
    • Benjamin Johnson Barbour
  • Lucy Barbour, married Thomas Newman
    • Lucetta Newman
  • Philip Pendleton Barbour (May 25, 1783-February 25, 1841), married Frances Todd Johnson
    • Elizabeth Barbour
    • Quintus Barbour
  • Eleanor Madison Barbour (March 10, 1785-July 3, 1826), married Martin Nalle
    • Lucy Mary Nalle
    • Richard Thomas Nalle
    • Sarah Elenora Nalle
    • Ann Frances Nalle
    • James Barbour Nalle
    • Philip Pendleton Nalle
    • Cordelia Upshur Terrell Nalle
    • Lucetta Todd Nalle
    • Martinette Nalle
    • Edmonia Pendleton Nalle
    • Benjamin Johnson Nalle
    • Jane Smith Nalle
  • Sarah Pendleton Barbour, married Gabriel Jones Gray
    • Philippa Pendleton Gray
    • Rebecca Gray

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