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THOMAS TINSLEY, I (c1618-1702) immigrated to the Jamestown colony from England in 1638 at the age of twenty, having his passage paid by a man who received a 50-acre land grant in exchange. He followed that man's example, gaining one grant after another until he was able to amass a 300-acre Virginia plantation further inland, on Totopotomoi Creek in New Kent (now in Hanover) Co., where he built a house located twelve miles north of Richmond that stood for over 300 years. As a tobacco planter and importer of clothing and domestic luxury items, Thomas became a wealthy man.
In Jamestown he met his wife, Elizabeth Randolph, with whom he had seven children who grew into married adulthood. In 1676, one hundred years before the American Revolution, he participated in Bacon's Rebellion, which was a semi-successful conflict waged against the British governor by planters living on the Virginia frontier who demanded authority to wage war against marauding Indians.
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