Thomas Harwood

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Thomas Harwood
5th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses
In office
1647–1649
Preceded by Ambrose Harmer
Succeeded by Edward Major
Personal details
Born England
Died 1652
Virginia
Spouse(s) Grace (1st)
Residence Queen Hith Plantation, Warwick County, Virginia

Captain Thomas Harwood (died 1652) was a Virginia soldier, landowner and politician. He served multiple terms as a burgess in the 1630s and 1640s, and was "one of the chieff of the Mutinous Burgesses" who expelled Governor Sir John Harvey in 1635. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses 164749, and was named to the Council shortly before his death in 1652.[1]

Notes

  1. Kukla, pp. 45-46

References

  • Kukla, Jon (1981). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 16431776. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0-88490-075-4. 


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