Birthdate: January 30, 1623

Birthplace: Ripple, Kent, England

Death: Died April 21, 1670 in Surry Co., VA

Son of William and Catherine

Husband of Elizabeth, Alice, and Jane

Father of Elizabeth, Alice, Anne, John, Richard, Thomas, Allen, Robert, and William

Brother of Radcliffe, Mary, Edward, and Albert

immigrated to Virginia 1635-1640

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Thomas Warren was born before Jan 30, 1623/24 at Ripple Court, Kent, England. He was baptised on Jan. 30, 1623/24 at Ripple Court, Kent, England. He was the son of William Warren and Katherine Warren (Gookin). He died around April 21, 1670 at Smiths Fort Plantation, Surry Co., Virginia.

Thomas Warren immigrated to Virginia in 1640. He bought land in 1643 at "Smith's Fort" from Thomas Rolfe (son of JOHN ROLFE & POCAHONTAS ). The land was first given to John Rolfe, Thomas Rolfe's father, by POWHATEAN (Pocahontas' father) as a wedding gift in 1614 when he married POCAHONTAS . In 1653 Thomas Warren began construction of a brick house 50 feet long The" Warren House" of Surry is famous as the oldest brick house in Va.

Land, 450 acres, eastern branch of Smiths Fort Creek, Surry Co, Virginia, was granted to him on Feb. 3 1639/40. He married Elizabeth Warren (Spencer), (his second wife). Elizabeth was the daughter of planter William Spencer.

In 1668 he LIVED at "Smith's Fort", "Gray's Creek Plantation" on 1200 acres of land at the mouth of Gray's Creek, Surry Co. Virginia.

Thomas was a member of "House of Burgesses" for James Dity, Oct. 1644-Mar. 1658 & in Surry Co. from1663-1666.

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If you would like to find this VERY interesting man who is not my blood relative (Ann Ramsey Vermeulen), but was related (9 th great grandfather) to the wife, (Kate Wallace (Cliften)), of my second great uncle JAMES BENTON WALLACE you can search for him by "digging deep" into my Geni.com tree.

Here is the way to "find" Thomas Warren. 

kate wallace (clifton > Ann B. clifton(Jones) > james william boykin > william boykin jr. > william w. boykin > ann boykin (gwaltney) > alice gwltney (flake) > margaret flake (marriott) > alice marriot (warren) > THOMAS WARREN.

(I found this information about Thomas Warren on the freepages of Rootsweb.com and a few other Internet sites)

( As of today, Aug. 29, 2009, I still have a lot of names to add to Thomas Warren's family tree & possibly some corrections to make. I hope some of you will like looking for him. Maybe I'll look for some more stories to tell about him. )

sincerely yours,

Ann

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Thomas Warren was of Smith's Fort in Surry County. In 1652 he built the first brick house in Virginia, which still stands. -------------------- From George Cocks, in The Cock......Genealogy of Long Island: Richard Harcurt appears in History of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 23 January 1648/9, as one of the signers of the Fundamental Agreement of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Warwick; 26 February 1648/9 with Henry Townsend, Mr. (Robert) Potter, and Mr. (Ezekiel) Holliman, appointed to lay out the meadow and upland in "ye neck". In 1648 as Constable, the (then) highest office in the Town Government. In 1652 he was licensed to keep a Victualing House and to sell spirituous liquors. In 1655, it was ordered that Richard Harcurt is appointed to be an Ordinary Keeper (i.e. tavern keeper) together with Stukely Westcott. In 1657, at Jamaica, Long Island, he was on a list of citizens, along with the three Townsends, subsequently his neighbors at Oyster Bay. On 16 February 1661, at Jamaica, he was on a list of those proscribed for sympathy with Quakers (Friends). In September of the same year, his name appears among the grantees of the Mill Right to Henry Townsend at Oyster Bay. The Oyster Bay records show that his first residence was on a lot bought of Mark Meggs situate on the South side of the main street just east of the mill dam. His next and probably his last residence was on the south side of the road to the Cove, including property of the late Edward M. Townsend. He held at times the offices of Overseer, Constable and Surveyor and was on sundry commissions for laying out lands in the Town. Of his ancestry, George Cocks had not made any attempt at discovery, but believes him to have been a 'cadet' (a younger brother or son, or a younger branch) of the Harcourt Family. The following extracts may be a beginning for some future chronicler. "In 1652 Richard Harcut was mentioned as heir or assignee of Frances (sic) Weston, and Margaret his wife," while in another deed Richard is called cousin (nephew) of Francis Weston from whom he had inherited land. It is suggested that Richard's mother was a sister of Francis Weston. Francis Weston was of Salem, Massachusetts, Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island, and was a recalcitrant Puritan and one of the twelve original members of the Baptist Church at Providence. According to Austin's Gen. Dict. of RI, p. 156, Richard Harcurt married 1st Elizabeth Potter, daughter of Robert Potter and Isabel Anthony (as shown by induction) daughter of John and Susannah Anthony of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Inn Keeper, etc. Robert Potter in 1638, being under criticism in the Church, removed to Portsmouth and Warwick, RI, where in 1643 he, with sundry others including Samuel Gorton were notified to appear before the General Court at Boston, as "they held blasphemous errors, which they must repent of" or go to Boston for trial; "and they were soon carried thither". At the time of the capture of the Warwick men, their wives and children were forced to betake themselves to the woods and suffered hardships that resulted in the death of three women at least, one of these being the wife of Robert Potter. In 1655, on the 25th of May, he was appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment, but died before the expiration of the year. Richard Harcurt married 2nd Mariam Hoyt, daughter of Samuel Hoyt of Stamford, CT, and widow of Samuel Forman, son of Robert of Oyster Bay. Richard died at Oyster Bay after 2 May 1696, that being the date of Codicil to his last will. The very interesting will (See Townsend Memorial, p. 73 et seq.) does not name all his children and their alliances, but the following arrangement here presented while making no pretense to regularity of birth, nor anything but possibility in cases of those marked interrogatively, is approximately correct. (Susannah, Elizabeth, Mercy, Daniel, Benjamin, Isabel, Sarah, Meribah, Dorothy, Mary)

The Winthrop Fleet list mentions that Harcourt called two other Fleet passengers "Uncle" and "Aunt": Francis and Elizabeth Weston. Their origin is undetermined. One or both became adherents to Mrs. Anne Hutchinson and were banished; one or both of them removed to RI.

Further information from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbfriedlander/hawxhurst.html