Thomas Barrow, Sr.

Came to America, with his brother, and settled in the Northern Neck of Virginia

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From available records, (See “Cavaliers and Pioneers” page 30 Abstracts of Virginia, by Nell Nugent) our family in America goes back to 1654, when THOMAS BARROW came on a ship owned by Abraham Wood, in 1654. Thomas’ wife was named Elizabeth. After the death of Thomas in 1684 or 1685, his widow married George Blow. (See Page 1069 of Edward Peasants Valentine Papers) (Also see Page 43 of Deed Book and Records of Surry County, Virginia – 1684-86, which may be seen in the Virginia State Library). The children of Thomas and Elizabeth Barrow were: Thomas, Jr., born in Henrico County, Virginia in 1663. The other two, John and Edmund were born later.

THOMAS BARROW, JR., son of Thomas and Elizabeth Barrow, was born in Henrico County, Virginia (the part that is now Surry Country) in 1663. He later moved to Southampton County on the Nottoway River where he died in either 1761 or 1763, as his will (Will Bok 2, Page 2, of Southampton County, Virginia Records) was dated in 1761, but was probated in 1763. Thomas, Jr.’s wife was also named Elizabeth. The children of Thomas, Jr. and Elizabeth Barrow were, according to his will: Simon, Thomas, Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah, Fortune and JOHN, who was born in Southampton County in 1700.

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Thomas Barrow, a linen draper by trade. In 1624, Thomas married Ann, daughter of William Buggin of North Cray, Kent and their son Isaac was born in 1630. It appears that Barrow was the only child of this union—certainly the only child to survive infancy. Ann died around 1634, and the widowed father sent the lad to his grandfather, Isaac, the Cambridgeshire J.P., who resided at Spinney Abbey. Within two years, however, Thomas remarried; the new wife was Katherine Oxinden, sister of Henry Oxinden of Maydekin, Kent. From this marriage, he had at least one daughter, Elizabeth (born 1641), and a son, Thomas, who apprenticed to Edward Miller, skinner, and won his release in 1647, emigrating to Barbados in 1680.[3] Linen draper a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher.

The records of the colonial government have, for the most part, been destroyed by wars, fires, and early neglect.