Thomas
Bragg
Born in Culpeper, Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Bragg
and Elizabeth Susannah (Dozier) Bragg
Brother of
John Bragg, William Hoyle Bragg, Joseph Thomas Bragg [half], Mary (Bragg) Bailey, Mary Bragg and Joseph Dozier Bragg
Husband of
Lucy Neville (Blakemore) Bragg
— married
20 Sep 1781 in Frederick, Kentucky, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth Jane (Bragg) Ward, Susanna (Bragg) Hill, Armstead Churchill Bragg, Sidney (Bragg) Kibbe, Harriet (Bragg) Davis, John Blakemore Bragg and Amanda (Bragg) Bruce
Died
at about age 66
in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Jan 2011
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Capt Thomas Bragg Son of Joseph Bragg and Susannah Dozier.
Served in the Revolutionary War as a Captain under Colonel Christopher Greenup. He commanded a Company of Virginia Militia.
Married Lucy Neville Blakemore on September 20, 1781 in Frederick County, Virginia. Came to Kentucky from Virginia with Col. Greenup following the Revolutionary War, both with large land grants and families. Thomas Bragg owned most of the land encompassing Vanceburg, Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
Lucy and Thomas Bragg's grandnephew Braxton Bragg, a graduate of West Point, became the famous Confederate General, and their grandnephew Thomas Bragg., Sr., Braxton's older brother, would become a North Carolina Governor and Senator, and the 2nd Confederate Attorney General.
He was a planter, operated salt wells and some early iron furnaces. He died in 1820 after arriving in Lexington to have a stone surgically removed.
Family links: Spouse: Lucy Neville Blakemore Bragg (1764 - 1862)
Children: Elizabeth Bragg Lewis (1782 - 1832) Amanda Bragg Bruce (1803 - 1852)
Sources
Find A Grave Memorial # 143323458 Created by: John Blakemore Sellers Record added: Mar 04, 2015 [1]
- Child Marriage: "Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965"
Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61372 #1351799376 (accessed 29 August 2022)
Thomas Bragg's child Amanda M. F. Bragg marriage to Alexander Bruce on 18 Feb 1819 in Lewis, Kentucky, USA.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Chris Hynes
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #115247
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~0.78%
Gayle Stewart :
23andMe, GEDmatch M100142 [compare], yourDNAportal GAYd2d0049e
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, yourDNAportal GAYd2d0049e, FTDNA kit #B703104
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MyHeritage DNA, yourDNAportal GAYd2d0049e, FTDNA kit #B703104
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Living DNA
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~0.78%
Brian Klinger :
23andMe
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Amy (F) W :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A621146 [compare], Ancestry member brickqueen_online
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B129713
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch A621146 [compare]
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Jon Brolhorst :
23andMe, GEDmatch YA8793971 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YY4414959 [compare], Ancestry member Jallanb25
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