Thomas Branch

• BIRTH 1699 Henrico County, Virginia, USA
• DEATH 30 Oct 1765 (aged 65–66) Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA
• BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
• MEMORIAL ID 233120747 Contributor: David Goode (49372965) - ddgoode@hotmail.com

Biography

Thomas Branch, of Henrico, later Chesterfield County. His will bears the date October 30, 1765, and recorded in Chesterfield County, devises to William Branch, land and plantation whereon my brother Willliam Branch formerly lived on Appomattox River; residue of estate to Henry Mitchell, Robert Goode, son of Robert Goode (deceased), Josiah Tatum, Branch Tanner, Christopher Branch, Thomas Branch Willson and John Goode and they are named executors. [3]

Father's Will

"Son Thomas, negro girl Hannah and large copper kettle, high bed and bedstead, rugs, blankets, curtains, vallence, pair best sheets, boulster and cases (standing in upper chamber on right hand of the stairs), great looking glass, chest of drawers in lower chamber, six largest Russia chairs leather, silver tumbler, gun, large table cloth and form..." [4] p.65

Parents
Thomas Branch 1658–1728
Elizabeth Archer Branch 1674 – unknown

Siblings
Elizabeth Archer Branch Goode 1690–1766
Frances Branch Tanner 1692 – unknown
Agnes Branch Osborne Worsham 1694 – unknown
Mary Branch Tatum 1694 – unknown
Tabitha Branch Mitchell 1695–1752
Martha Branch Wilson 1698 – unknown
James Branch 1698–1737
Amey Branch Branch 1706–1751
Frances Margery Branch Goode Bugg 1721–1773

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/233120747/thomas-branch

Sources

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1915105

[3] Chesterfield County Will Book. No. I, p. 536

[4] Thomas and William Branch of Henrico and Some of Their Descendants, William Clayton Torrence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jul., 1916), pp. 59-