Thomas
Tinsley V
9/4/1752 - 12/17/1822
Thomas Tinsley V, first son of Thomas Tinsley 4 and his wife Agnes Garland, married Susanna
Thomson on May 30th, 1782. She was the daughter of John Thomson by his
first wife, Ann Garland. John Thomson was born on 1/1/1732 and Susanna was born
on 12/5/1765 and died 7/29/1844. They had issue: [NOTE: I (Fred Preston) was
just accepted into the "Sons of the American Revolution" through
Thomas Tinsley V]
Following supplied by Maria Rippe. Many papers show Thomas
Tinsley V as being born in 1755. An obituary published in the Richmond Whig on
January 4, 1823, stated that Col. Thomas Tinsley died December 17,1822 in his
70th year of age. He was buried near Hylas in western Hanover in a cemetery on
Spring Grove property owned by C. C. Tinsley. The cemetery is apparently the
final resting place for a number of local veterans, as the stones all bear
military inscriptions. Tinsley's stone reads as follows: Thomas Tinsley, Lt.
Col. 93rd Regiment Virginia Grenadiers 1792, Colonel of the 74th Regiment
Virginia Light Infantry 1795. None of the stones in the cemetery give birth and
death dates.
Thomas lived in
Hanover Town and seemed to have something to do with salt which was used for
the preservation of meat. Thomas served as Sub Sheriff for Hanover County in
1783 and as Sheriff in 1799. On April 8, 1789 he was elected as a Delegate to
the General Assembly. Also in 1789 he was serving as Warden of St.Paul's
Parish in Hanover. Thomas was also President of Washington Henry Academy, a
school for young boys. Thomas was a commissioned officer in the Hanover
Militia and defended the county when Cornwallis marched through in 1781 and he
was usually referred to as Colonel Thomas Tinsley.
- John
Thomson Tinsley, 3/5/1783 - 3/16/1783.
- Second
child, 1/1/1785 - 1/8/1785
- Mary Tinsley, born 8/10/1786 m. David
Johnson on 9/12/1805 and died 9/22/1819. (Note:Book on Hanover Co.
cemeteries shows Mary's date of birth as 8/16/1786, not 8/10/1785.)
- * Thomas Garland Tinsley, born 12/30/1788
died 9/14/1859 married first Harriet Washington Bryan 1803-1841 and second
Patsy Rutherfoord.
- Nancy
Tinsley, born 2/22/1791 married on 10/4/1818 Mr.
Seaton Grantland (picture).
Seaton was born in 1782 in New Kent Co. he was a Whig, newspaper editor
and lawyer. Seaton and Nancy (Ann) settled in Milledgeville, GA where she
died on 12/12/1823. Seaton served as U. S Representative-at-Large for
Georgia from 1835 to 1839. He died in Milledgeville in 1864.
- Harriet
Tinsley born 10/26/1797 died 11/6/1803.
The land known today
as Totomoi Farm was granted to George Wilkinson and John Wilkinson in a
patent dated 1703. It was then purchased by the Thomson family in 1747
and 1758. Col. Thomas Tinsley purchased the land in 1800.
Thomas Tinsley, son of
Thomas Tinsley and his wife Agnes, was a member of the House of Delegates in
1789 and 1790. In Calvin Cotton's Life of Henry Clay, is the following:
"Through the
efforts of Col. Thomas Tinsley, a member of the Legislature of Virginia, a Col.
in the Revolutionary War, he persuaded his brother Peter Tinsley to take Henry
Clay in his office, prior to his course under Chancellor Wythe, of the Supreme
Court of Virginia." Thomas Tinsley took the "Mill Boy" to his
home, fitted him out with clothes suitable for his city life.
In Sparke's "Life
of Washington and His Letters" is mention where Washington has under
consideration, the appointment of Col. Thomas Tinsley as Surveyor General of
the United States, but as his appointment was considered along with prominent
Generals in the Revolutionary War, he failed to receive the appointment, but
did receive other appointments.
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