Thomas Flood (1760 - 1811)

Born 1760 in Buckingham, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1811 at about age 51 in Wilson, Tennessee, United States

Biography

Private Thomas Flood served with 2nd Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Thomas was born in 1760, in Buckingham, Virginia He was the son of John Flood and Agatha Davis.

Thomas Flood served as a Private in Captain John Steed's Company, 2nd Regiment, in a Detachment of Virginia Brigade, commanded by Colonel Febiger^[1]. Muster rolls show his enlistment expiring on February 29, 1780.

On 9 Jan 1787, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, he married Elizabeth Gale {abt. 1767 - d. abt. 1791; dau. of Thomas Whitney Gale & Mary Thomas). They settled in Isle of Wright where they had one child.

1. Mary Thomas Flood b. 1786 VA - d. 1860 TN, m1/wid. John Stockard, m2. Lewis Hammack

Elizabeth died sometime around 1791. He married again, around 1791, in North Carolina, to Judith Strother. They initially settled in North Carolina where their first child was born. Then, by 1800 they had settled in Tennessee where the other 5 children were born.

1. Nancy Strother Flood b. 1793 NC - d. 1873 TN, m. Harris Smith
2. Elizabeth Judith Flood b. 1800 TN - d. 1872 AK, m. William Michie (see note below)
3. Robert Bolling Flood b. 1802 - d. 1840, m. Mary D Mitchie (see note below)
4. Thomas Henry Flood b. 1803 TN - d. 1871 VA, m1/wid. Martha Walker, m2. Dorothy B Gilchrist
5. Lucy D. Flood b. 1806 - d. TBD, m1/wid. John Thomason, m2. Joseph Pearce
6. John Jefferson Flood b. 1807 TN - d. 1864 MO, m1/wid. Frances Hoggatt Russell, m2/wid. Mary Ellen Prewitt, m3. Mary Guirey McConnell

Thomas first bought land in Wilson Co., Tennessee on February 8, 1800. In 1802, he is on a list of voters, for Smith County, and by 1804, he is on the tax list for Wilson County.

Living in Wilson the remainder of his life, it is here he passed away in 1811^[2]. It is unknown where he was buried.

His children Elizabeth and Robert married siblings whose parents were George Washington Mitchie and his first wife Elizabeth (surname unknown). After his 1st wife died, some researchers say the Flood siblings' mother, Judith and George were married. No source records have been found to substantiate this.

Research Notes

It appears that DAR Ancestor A039762^[3] belongs to the man in this profile, except for the birth and death dates. The difference in the birth dates (1732 vs. 1760) is too large to be dismissed, and needs to be validated.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.fold3.com/image/22946296
2. ↑ https://floodfamily.org/reports/FloodJohn.pdf
3. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 26 Jan 2024), "Record of Thomas Flood", Ancestor # A039762.

• "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6J2T-9HC2 : Sun Jan 14 18:54:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Thomas Flood and Elizabeth Gale, 9 Jan 1787.

• U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=revwarmuster&h=134619&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

• [1]Tennessee, U.S., Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895

Name [Flood-2813|Thomas Flood]]

Residence Date 1804

Residence Place Wilson, Tennessee, USA