Thomas Maxwell (abt. 1769)

Born about 1769 in Montgomery (now Tazewell) Co, VA

Ancestors

Biography

Thomas Maxwell served in the War of 1812
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Son of James “Great White Chief” Maxwell, Sr. (1745-1821) and Jane Roberts (1745-1820).

NB: This Thomas Maxwell should not be confused with his uncle, Thomas Maxwell (1747-1782), who was killed by Shawnee Indians while trying to rescue the Ingles family or with Thomas Bates Maxwell (1807-1861), the son of James Maxwell, Jr.

Very little is known about Thomas Maxwell. It appears that he never married.

Thomas Maxwell was a veteran of the War of 1812. He served as a private in Capt. Thomas H. Clark's company of VA militia.

Sources

• Ancestry.com entries for "Thomas Maxwell" (2), "Thomas MAXWELL" (2), and THOMAS MAXWELL".

• Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection-Individual Records (database on-line), Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2000.

• Mary Ann Fields, "Maxwell-Witten," in John Newton Harmon, Sr. Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia from 1800 to 1922, Vol. II (Richmond, VA: W. C. Hill Printing Co., 1925), pages 374-380. Mrs. Fields’ article is an important source for information about her great-grandfather, James Maxwell, and his descendants.

• Ancestry.com, War of 1812 Pension Applications Files Index, 1812-1815 (database on-line), Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. (Applications Nos. SO28777 and SC20689).