Thomas Massie or Massey | |
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Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing New Kent County, Virginia | |
In office 1723–1729 Serving with John Thornton | |
Preceded by | Nicholas Merriwether |
Succeeded by | Richard Richardson Bacon |
Personal details | |
Born | 1675 Cheshire, England or New Kent, Virginia |
Died | 1731 (aged 55–56) Windsor Forest plantation, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia |
Resting place | New Kent, Virginia |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Mary Walker |
Children | William Massie |
Occupation | planter, military officer, legislator, justice of the peace |
Thomas Massie (born around 1675 in either Virginia or Cheshire, England) was a planter, politician, militia officer, a Justice of New Kent County, and vestryman in colonial Virginia. At the time of his death around 1731, he owned 4,000 acres of land in New Kent County, Virginia near the Little Byrd Creek in what is now Goochland County, Virginia as part of his family's Windsor Forest Plantation, which he inherited from his father.