Thomas Branch
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Thomas was born in Henrico County, Virginia in March or April 1624 as the eldest son of [[Christopher Branch]] and his wife Mary Addie who had married Sep 1619 in London, and immigrated to Virginia on the ship "London Merchant", leaving Tilburyhope, England March 1619/20. | Thomas was born in Henrico County, Virginia in March or April 1624 as the eldest son of [[Christopher Branch]] and his wife Mary Addie who had married Sep 1619 in London, and immigrated to Virginia on the ship "London Merchant", leaving Tilburyhope, England March 1619/20. | ||
| − | [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=15674&iid=dvm_GenMono000908-00020-0&sid=&gskw=&cr=1 "Branchiana...", Page 26] states that '[at Henrico]...the muster of Jan 1624/5, names Christopher Branch, his wife, Mary Branch, and their son, Thomas Branch, then nine months old, as resident "att ye Colledg Land"' | + | [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=15674&iid=dvm_GenMono000908-00020-0&sid=&gskw=&cr=1 "Branchiana...", Page 26] states that '[at Henrico]...the muster of Jan 1624/5, names Christopher Branch, his wife, Mary Branch, and their son, Thomas Branch, then nine months old, as resident "att ye Colledg Land"' And on [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=15674&iid=dvm_GenMono000908-00067-1&sid=&gskw=&cr=1 Page 105] more specifically quotes the "Muster of the Inhabitants in Virginia", taken Jan 1624/5, which names among those living at the College Land in Henrico: "Christopher Branch, came in the London Merchannt. Mary, his wife, in the same Shipp. Thomas, his sonne, aged 9 Months." which leaves little room for doubt about these facts. |
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Thomas married Elizabeth Gough, and by her had issue: | Thomas married Elizabeth Gough, and by her had issue: | ||
