Thomas Bristow

THOMAS BRISTOW removed from Middlesex County, Virginia and migrated northward, sometime between 1715 qnd 1726, after his daughter- MARY was born in Middlesex County, in 1713, and resided in Richmond County for a few years. The register of North Farnham Parish, in Richmond County, shows that his son- JOHN died there, at the age of eleven, in 1726, and two daughters, KATHERINE and MICHAL, were born there in 1728 and 1731, respectively. Then, sometime between 1731 and 1736, he took his family and moved further northward through Westmoreland and King George counties to that part of Stafford County, which became Prince William County, in 1730/1. Court records show that he had arrived in Prince William County as early as 1736/7. There is no record of his owning land there and it appears that he may have rented the land he lived on, as one record shows that he made several payments of rent to the Wansford Arrington orphans, in 1736-1737. Court records also show that he had apparently died by November 26, 1759, when Robert Scott was appointed administrator of THOMAS BRISTOW's estate.