Capt. Thomas Young

Captain Thomas Young was born Aug 10,1579 in London, Middlesex, England, and died Aft. 08 Sep 1640.

Parents: Gregory Young (born 1530 in London, Middlesex, England and died Jun 1610 in London, Middlesex, England) and Susan.

Baptism: Baptism Date16 Aug 1579 Baptism Place St Peter Upon Cornhill, City of London, London, England

Married:

1. on 6 Sep 1597 in Chester, London, England to Joanne Clerk. She was born 1580 in Bishop Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

Children of Captain Young and Joanne Clerk include:

1. John Young, born 1625; died 1714 in Boston, Suffolk, Mass..
2. Rowland Young.

Notes

• Captain Thomas Young and his nephew, Robert were sent from England to Virginia and afterwards to New England to offer supplies and to open between the two, and guard against famine and distress. It is believed they had a material influence upon Southhold.
• Captain Thomas Young the son of Gregory Young merchant of London a Yorkshireman was born in London in the year 1579 He came to Virginia and Maryland and the Delaware river in 1634 He had already seen something of Spain and Italy Captain Young's sister Susanna married Robert Evelyn of Wotton Surrey and was aunt by marriage to John Evelyn the diarist Thus George Evelyn was nephew of Thomas Young Captain Young was a man of good intelligence He was greatly an admirer of Sir John Harvey and could therefore see little good in William Claiborne and less in that powerful republican Captain Samuel Matthews Captain Young wrote an interesting letter from James River to Sir Toby Matthew the fall of 1634 printed in Plowden Weston's Documents Relating to South Carolina in which he spoke of his own plans for exploration to the South Sea and gave some account of Governor Harvey's expedition under the command of Captain Matthews far up the country See Note in Myers Narratives of Early Pennsylvania

Links

• Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants, Vol 2, page 128
• William and Mary Quarterly 1921
• http://www.daltwhitt.org/?page_id=1036