Person:Thomas Fawcett (10)

Estate Records

• Fossett, Thomas. Inventory of estate. 8 June 1747. [Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Frederick County, Virginia, 1743-1800, by J. Estelle Stewart King, pg. 2].

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Wikitree.com.

   THOMAS FAWCETT was born in 1683 in Shankill Parish, Armagh County, Ireland to John Fawcett and Judith Thwaite/Thwayts. He participated in Friend's Grange Monthly Meeting, and lived near Lisburn. He married Lydia Boyes on April 2, 1708 at her father's (Richard Boyes’) home in Ballinderry. The Boyes were members of the Ballinderry Meeting in County Antrim. Thomas and Lydia had four children in Ireland: Joseph Fawcett (ca. 1710- ), Thomas Fawcett (1712/13-1822), John Fawcett (1716-86), Richard Fawcett (1718/20-1789 [De Paul 1992]). Thomas, Lydia, and their older sons (Thomas, John, and Richard) traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1736, while Joseph stayed in London. They were received by the Chester, Pennsylvania Monthly Meeting on September 29, 1736 (Meyers 1902). For six years (1736-42), Thomas and Lydia Fawcett and their three older sons lived in the Springfield Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (Chester Monthly Meeting; 1737 Tax List; Fawcett 1950). Their younger son (Joseph) later came to America (ca. 1754) and joined his brothers in the Shenandoah Valley. Thomas, Jr. returned to Ireland in 1738, and two of his sons (John and Thomas) migrated to Virginia in about 1770. In 1742 Lydia and Thomas Fawcett and their children were received by the Hopewell Meeting, north of Winchester (De Paul 1992). Thomas Fawcett, Sr. died without a will in 1747. He was the first person buried in the Mt. Pleasant Burying Ground at Fawcett's Gap (Blum and Blum 1958; Frederick County Will 1:142). His grave is no longer visible. His widow, Lydia Fosset, David Vance, and William Hoge, Jr. were bound to Morgan Morgan, First Justice in the Commission of the Peace on June 2, 1747 in an administrative bond for her husband's estate (Will Book 1:122). The inventory of Thomas Fawcett's estate mentions a field of wheat, cows, horses, pigs, tools, pewter, silver, delft, two Bibles and L 51-6-9 in currency (Will Book 1:142 6/8/1747).
   
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   Thomas Fawcett
   BIRTH 1683
   Ireland
   DEATH 1747 (aged 63–64)
   Frederick County, Virginia, USA
   BURIAL Mount Pleasant Meeting House Cemetery
   Mount Pleasant, Frederick County, Virginia, USA
   
   He is the son of John Fawcett 1660–1683 & Judith Thwaite 1660–1688
   and was born 1683 • in Shankill Parish and lived near Lisburn, Antrim, Northern Ireland. He married Lydia Boyes on 2 April 1708 at her father Richard Boyes home in Ballinderry, Ireland.
   Thomas Fawcett Sr. arrived in Colonial Philadelphia in the summer of 1736 with his wife Lydia Boyes and 3 of their 4 sons. Thomas Fawcett Jr. 1712-1822, John Fawcett 1716-1786, Richard Fawcett 1718-1789. The oldest, Joseph Fawcett 1710 -? stayed behind in London England. After 6 years in Springfield, Chester Co. Pennsylvania Thomas and Lydia with their 3 boys travelled down from Pennsylvania to settle in a place called Fawcett's Gap in Fredericks Co. Virginia where they remained until Thomas Fawcett Sr.'s death in 1747.
   Later, in 1754, the eldest son Joseph came to America to be with his brothers in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
   It is said that Thomas Fawcett Sr. was the first person to be buried in the Mt. Pleasant Burying Ground in Fawcett's Gap, Frederick County, Virginia.
   
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