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Thomas Westbrook Waldron | |
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 Portrait of Thomas Westbrook Waldron by John Greenwood (1750) | |
| Born | January 6, 1721 |
| Died | April 3, 1785 (aged 64) Dover, New Hampshire |
| Occupation(s) | merchant, magistrate, councilor, mill owner, Captain and Colonel of the New Hampshire militia, county treasurer and recorder of deeds, and chairman in Dover, New Hampshire of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety |
| Spouse | Constant or Constance Davis |
| Children | William, Elizabeth, Richard, Samuel, Eleanor, Charles, Abigail, Daniel[1] |
| Parent(s) | Richard Waldron and Elizabeth Westbrook |
Thomas Westbrook Waldron was a prominent political figure in Dover, New Hampshire, and a military officer that fought in the Siege of Louisbourg of 1745.[2] He later became a commissioner at Albany, New York, and then a royal councillor in 1782.[3][4] During the American Revolution, Waldron abandoned his loyalist friend, British colonial governor of New Hampshire John Wentworth, to become a patriot of the United States.
- ^ C.H.C. Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America, p.62 at: https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofcutts00howa#page/20/mode/2up/search/Waldron accessed 6 September 2010
- ^ Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts (1892). Genealogy of the Cutts family in America. Boston Public Library. Albany, N. Y., J. Munsell's sons.
- ^ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1865.
- ^ John Wentworth, Wentworth Genealogy, vol 1, p. 165