Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Thomas NELSON

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Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., was the son of Hugh Nelson, of Penryth, county Cumberland, England, and Sarah, his wife. He was b. February 20, 1677. He emigrated to the Colony of Virginia about 1700, and died at Yorktown, October 7, 1745, aged sixty-eight years, and was buried in the Episcopal churchyard there. He was commonly called "Scotch Tom Nelson," from the fact that his parents were from the north of England.
He founded Yorktown in 1705. He first built a wooden house, followed by a brick house in 1715, and another in 1725. During the siege of Yorktown by the Colonial troops in October, 1781, it was battered too badly to be repaired, and not a vestige of either of these houses now remains.
"Scotch Tom Nelson" took for his first wife, about 1770, Margaret Reade, granddaughter of George Reade, the immigrant.

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