Thomas Turpin::;



Thomas TURPIN was born on 9th of May, 1708 in Henrico County, Virginia.
He died on 30th of June, 1790 in Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia. He was married to Mary JEFFERSON on 5th of April, 1732 in Virginia. Great Aunt of President Thomas Jefferson and Aunt of Peter Jefferson, sister of Peter's dad Thomas Jefferson.



Father: Thomas Turpin
b: 1680 in , Henrico, Virginia,

Mother: Obedience Branch
b: Bet 1674 and 1678 in , Henrico, Virginia





WIFE/SPOUSE::;

Miss Mary JEFFERSON was born in 1709 in Henrico County, Virginia. She died on 13th of April, 1755 in Powhatan County, VA.
Married: 4th of May, 1732 in , Virginia becoming Mrs. Mary Turpin.


Children:

1.)Martha TURPIN - Died Young

2.)Thomas TURPIN - Died Young

3.)Phillip TURPIN - Died Young b: 1733

4.)Anne Obedience TURPIN b: 17th of September, 1734
d.8th of August, 1800
Married:
Colonel John Jordan Harris (1732 - 1800
A Patriot of the American Revolution, VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor #: A051729


5.)Thomas TURPIN, III b: 28th of November 1736-1767
Marriage in 1767: Marriage of Thomas to Martha Turpin (1740-?)
Manakin Town, Powhatan County, Province of Virginia


6.)Mary TURPIN

7.)William TURPIN b: 6 Apr 1741 - 1777

8.)Lucy TURPIN - Died Young

9.)Phillip TURPIN

10.)Peterfield TURPIN - Never Married


11.)Horatio Harris TURPIN:
Born: 1755
Died October 8, 1828

Married:
Mary Anna Turpin (Bancroft) (c.1788 - 1865)
Child:
Peter Field Turpin

Her MOM: Died October 1840
Mary Magdalene Valleau

Her DAD:1755-:d: October 8, 1828
Dr. Daniel Bancroft



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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor #: A117376
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1754, Lt. Col of Cumberland, Virginia Militia!

NOTE* Thomas Turpin*

Thomas Turpin was Thomas Jefferson's uncle by marriage. He was married to Peter Jefferson's younger sister, Mary. Thomas Turpin was executor of Peter Jefferson's estate and thus bore some great degree of fiscal/material responsibility for Thomas Jefferson and his mother and siblings after Peter Jefferson died in 1757.

Thomas Jefferson also lived in Thomas Turpin's house in Richmond while he was governor of Virginia; the house was located on Shockoe Hill, probably just a little south of where the governor's mansion stands, near the intersection of 12th and Franklin Streets.

There is some correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Turpin; Jefferson also remained in touch with Thomas Turpin's sons, Horatio and Phillip, throughout their lives. What correspondence has been transcribed can be found in the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

Footnotes

↑ Peter Jefferson Will, Albemarle County Deed Book

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NOTICE this*

Colonel John Harvie (1706 – 1767) was, according to Thomas Jefferson biographer Dumas Malone, the "active executor" of Peter Jefferson's estate, and seems to have been responsible for providing young Thomas Jefferson with funds from the estate.

Peter Jefferson's will states: "...I do appoint Constitute & Ordain the Honorable Peter Randolph Esquire, Thomas Turpin the Elder, John Nicholas, Doctor Thomas Walker & Colonel John Harvie/Harvey chief executor and other as Executors of this my last will & Testament & Guardian to all my Children in Testimony whereof I have signed sealed & Published this as my last Will and Testament..."
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Interestingly, Thomas Jefferson's first surviving letter was to John Harvie - a plea for permission to attend the College of William & Mary, to "get a more universal Acquaintance." Harvie's accounts dealing with Peter Jefferson's estate, or copies thereof, can be accessed at the University of Virginia.






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Mary Jefferson (August 1709 - 8th February, 1784) married Thomas Turpin on 4th of May, 1732.

Thomas Turpin was the overseer for William Byrd of "Westover."

Henrico County taxed Thomas Turpin on one levy in 1736 . [''Henrico County-Southside, 1 736,'' Virginia Colonial Abstracts (Fleet), vol. 3, page 39 3]

Thomas acquired several tracts of land in Goochland (later named Albemarle, now Buckingham, County during his lifetime: 2 83 acres [Patent Book 13, page 496] acres in September 1730 , 400 acres [Patent Book 17, page 317] on Turpin's Creek in June 1737, 350 acres [Patent Book 25, page 444] in January 1746/7, and 222 acres [Patent Book 26, page 508] in July 1748. Turpin Creek in what is today Buckingham County was undoubtedly named for Thomas Turpin.

Turpin held land in Amelia County - 400 acres [Patent Book 24, page 464] on the Great Branch of the Sandy River, in September 1746. Thomas Turpin was also a magistrate in Goochland County in 1735, the sheriff of the same county in 1741-43, and church warden of Southam Parish. [Patent Book 26, page 460] Turpin was later a county officer in Cumberland County. Thomas Turpin was head of a household of eight whites and 31 blacks in Powhatan County in 1783.

[Heads of Families at the First U.S. Census of 1790, Virginia, page and column 59C] Thomas Turpin died in Powhatan County 20th of June 1790 (will dated 11 March 1790), [Powhatan County Will Book 1, page 180] recorded 16 Sept. 1790). He was evidently wealthy for he owned forty- one slaves in an early census. Several Turpin grandchildren have not been placed: Thomas Turpin, Lucy Turpin, Obedience Turpin, and Sarah Turpin.


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Summary Commission, dated 31st, August 1754, appointing Thomas Turpin (1708-1790) Lieutenant Colonel of the militia in Cumberland County, Virginia. Commission is signed by Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie (1692 -1770).

Hist. Note Thomas Turpin was born 8th of May, 1708 in Henrico County, Virginia, to Thomas Turpin (d. ca. 1724) and Obedience Turpin (d. 1746). He lived in Goochland County, Virginia, where he served as sheriff from 1741 to 1743. His home lay in what became Cumberland County, Virginia , in 1749, and he served as a justice of the peace and in the county militia. His home lay in what became/is Powhatan County, Virginia, in 1777, and again he served as a justice of the peace. Turpin married Mary Jefferson (1709-1784), the great aunt of President Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826), and they had eleven children. Turpin died in Powhatan County 20th of June, 1790.

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Bio:
By Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian and kin.