Thomas Swann Jr.

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| name = Thomas Swann

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| office1 = Member of the House of Burgesses for Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia

| term1 = 1703-1704

| preceded1 = Thomas Milner

| succeeded1 =Daniel Sullivan

| alongside1 = Henry Jenkins

| office2 = Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for Surry County, Colony of Virginia

| term2 =1693-1699

| preceded2 = Samuel Swann

| succeeded2 = Thomas Holt

| alongside2 ==John Thompson, Benjamin Harrison

| term3 =1679-April 1682

| preceded3 = Samuel Swann

| succeeded3 = Arthur Allen II

| alongside3 ==William Browne

| birth_date = October 1659

| birth_place = Swann's Point Plantation, Surry County, Colony of Virginia

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| death_place = Nansemond County, Virginia

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| occupation = tavernkeeper, militia officer, planter, politician

| spouse = Eliza Thompson

| children = Samuel Swann, Thomas Swann Jr. and three others

| parents = Thomas Swann, Mary Mansfield

| relatives = Samuel Swann (burgess) (brother)

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Thomas Swann Jr. (ca.1650-1704) was a planter, militia officer and politician in the Colony of Virginia who represented first his native Surry County and later Nansemond County in the House of Burgesses.{{cite book |editor1-first=Lyon Gardiner |editor1-last=Tyler |editor1-link=Lyon Gardiner Tyler |title=Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography |url= |volume=I |year=1915 |page=334 |publisher= Lewis Historical Publishing Company |location= New York }}{{cite book | last=McCartney | first=Martha W. | title=Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders | publisher=Genealogical Pub. Co | publication-place=Baltimore, Md. | date=2012 | isbn=978-0-8063-1872-1 | oclc=812189309}}

Early and family life

Born to the widowed Mary Mansfield and her planter and politician husband Thomas Swann, he had an elder half-brother Samuel Swann who administered his father's estate with his stepmother.

Career

He was elected sheriff of Surry County in 1697.{{harvnb|Tyler|1915}} Surry County voters elected him as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses in 1695, re-elected him in 1696 and again elected him in 1698.Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp.44, 46, 54, 57, 58, 62 Both times he won election to the House (but of course not when he won re-election), Swann succeeded his elder half brother Samuel Swann, who eventually moved to North Carolina.

Personal life

He married Elizabeth (Eliza), the daughter of William Thompson of Nansemond County, and their eldest son Thompson Swann became clerk of Cumberland County, serving from 1754 until 1781.

Death and legacy

He died in 1704 or 1705.

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