Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson
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Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson was an immigrant from England who became a wealthy merchant at Yorktown in the Colony of Virginia. His children married into the First Families of Virginia, achieving not on
Nelson's house in Yorktown
Thomas Nelson Jr.
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Thomas Nelson Jr. was a Founding Father of the United States, general in the Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, and a Virginia planter. In addition to serving many terms in the Vir
Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson
…Virginia, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia, United States. William Nelson's son, Thomas Nelson Jr. (1739–1789) (grandson of "Scotch Tom"), was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Brigadier General during the American Revolutionary War…
Engraving by Henry Bryan Hall
Nelson in 1750
"York Hall," Captain George Preston Blow House, 1914, the home of Thomas Nelson Jr., 1738–1739.