Thomas Seawell Sr. (1597 - abt. 1649)

Born 1597 in England

Descendants

Died about 1649 at about age 52 in Jamestown, Virginia Colony, North America

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Biography

Thomas Seawell Sr. was a Jamestown colonist.

Thomas Sewell, born about 1597 in England, arrived in Jamestown Colony aboard the George on 16 April 1619, listed as Piersey's servant having left London 29 January 1619. ^[1]

Thomas was listed on the Virginia Muster, January 20, 1624/5.

Thomas Sewell arrived again aboard the Tyger on 7 February 1624/5, London to Jamestown, Virginia. ^[2] Thomas made several trips between Virginia and England. ^[3]

Thomas Sewell patented lands in York County, Virginia in 1635 and Gloucester County in 1642, was a brother of Henry of Sewell's Point. According to a certain family history, not certified, Henry Seawell was a burgess in Elizabeth City County, in 1632, which would place him here before either Thomas or John Sewell. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/george1.htm
2. ↑ https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/tyger.htm
3. ↑ The Sewells in America", a 1400 page four-volume history of the Sewells with 915 pages on Henry Sewell and Alice Willoughby.
4. ↑ History of the Sewell Family in America

See also:

• Virtual Jamestown Thomas Sawell, Ship "George" 1619.

• THE MUSTER OF THE INHABITANTS OF PEIRSEYS HUNDRED TAKEN THE 20TH OF JANUARY 1624

• Library Of Virginia, LVA Catalogs (See sidebar) Thomas Seawell Grantee. Description: 400 acres part of the land lying at the head of the old pocoson on the South side joyning unto a ridge of Land comonly called the great ridge. 20 April 1635.

• Library Of Virginia, LVA Catalogs (See sidebar) Thomas Seawell Grantee. Description: 300 acres lyeing in the Old Poquoson Forrest neare the head of a Back River beg.g at the marked trees of Wm. Hampton &c. 30 September 1646.

• English-America, the Voyages, Vessels, People & Places, "Electronic," The George, 1619 & Muster of inhabitants of VA settlements, 20 Jan. 1624/5, Peirsey's Hundred.

• Bob E. Allen, The Jones Sewell Connection (Mary Harmon Bryant Library, Hoole Alabama Collection, University of Alabama, Privately Printed), 15, 101, 104.

• Marriage Index Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, 1624 - 1915.

• Worley Levi Sewell Senior, History of the Sewell Families in America (Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL., Privately Printed in 1955, Stuart Daily News, Inc., Stuart, FLorida), Henry's brother Thomas patented lands York, VA in 1635 and Gloucester County, VA in 1642.

• (copy in Charles E. Sewell personal files,), Servants of Abraham Piersey. Thomas Sawell aged 26 arrived 1619 in the George.

• Anne Blocker, http://genforum.genealogy.com/sowell/messages/472.html (Genealogy.com, asblocker@@aol.com), 12/24/2007.