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Name: Thomas Burgess
Sex: M
Birth: 6 Sep 1712 in Standon Parish, Staffordshire, England
Death: 13 Nov 1779 in Halifax, Halifax Co., N.C.
Person Id: I57820
Tree Id: 216746

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Parents

Father:

John Burgess: Birth: ABT 1680 in Buxted, Sussex, England.

Mother:

Dorothy Lovatt: Birth: ABT 1680 in Buxted, Sussex, England.

Family
Marriage:

Married: Miriam on 6 Sep 1742 at Indian Springs, Fairfax Co., Va.
Miriam : Birth: 1716. Death: 20 Oct 1758 in Surry Co., N.C.

Children:

Dorothea Miriam Burgess: Birth: 29 Sep 1743 in Surry Co., Va. Death: BEF 1774 in Halifax Co., N.C.
Henry John Burgess: Birth: 28 Nov 1744 in Surry Co., Va. Death: 1797 in Southampton Co., Va
Thomas Burgess: Birth: 24 Dec 1746 in Surry Co., Va.
Anne Maria Burgess: Birth: 2 Oct 1748 in Surry Co., Va.
Sarah Penelope Burgess: Birth: 22 Oct 1750 in Surry Co., Va.
William Burgess: Birth: 23 Dec 1752 in Surry Co., Va. Death: 5 Oct 1838 in Franklin Co., AL

Family
Marriage:

Married: Mary Haywood on 21 May 1760 at N.C. Green 1653.
Mary Haywood: Birth: ABT 1730. Death: 19 Dec 1786

Children:

Lovatt Burgess: Birth: 31 Jan 1762 in N.C.. Death: 10 Oct 1807 in N.C.

Sources

1.	Title: Frances Henriette Kropp Florence hflorence2@cox.net Note: 1 DATE 24 Jul 2001

Notes

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Continued: Alston/Allston book lists Thomas as the third child of fourteen. Thomas Allen notes: Thomas was one of the few ministers of the Church of England in North Carolina in the middle of the eighteenth century. He moved from 20 years in Virginia (arrived in 1741) to North Carolina after Miriam died October 20, 1758. He was a pioneer Episcopal minister and the first religious teacher in Halifax County where he served as rector of the Episcopal Church in the town of Halifax, North Carolina In October 1759 the church wardens and vestry of Edgecombe Parish (went) with Thomas to make him minister of Edgecombe Parish. In 1760 the Assembly and Council confirmed this agreement. In 1787 a bill was introduced in the Assembly to enable wardens of Halifax County to levy a tax to discharge debts due him in 1776. He left his daughter Dorothy one Negro. Another date of death given is Nov. 15, 1776.

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