Thomas Hussey Luckett (abt. 1755 - aft. 1786)

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Died after 27 Dec 1786 after about age 31 in Loudoun, Virginia, United States

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Thomas Luckett served with 6th Maryland Regiment (1776), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Thomas Hussey Luckett was born about 1755.^[1] He was the son of William Luckett and Charity Middleton.^[2]

Thomas Luckett married Elizabeth^[2] Noland.^[3] Thomas Hussey Luckett is an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati.(https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war/officers-represented-in-the-society-of-the-cincinnati/)

Thomas Luckett probably died in January of 1787. As a resident of Loudoun county, Virginia, he wrote his will on 27 Dec 1786 and it was proved on 12 February 1787.^[4]

In his will, Thomas left land in Montgomery county, Maryland to his first three sons: Otho (the eldest), Vol, and Lawson. The youngest child, not yet named when the will was written, was left the "plantation I now live on ... and also the negro man Tom." His wife, Elizabeth, and friend Reason Davis of Washington County were named Executrix and Executor. Witnesses were Ens. Campbell, Levon Luckett, Isaac Fouch Junior, and Daniel Williams (who signed by mark). On 20 January 1787, Elizabeth published a notice of sale for items in the estate, which included "a number of likely Negroes, a Waggon and Geers [sic], Horses, Cattle and Hogs, Plantation utensils of all kinds and some Household Furniture. One years Credit will be given on Bond, with approved security."^[5]

Thomas and Elizabeth named their eldest son after his commander Otho Holland Williams (1748-1794) in the Revolutionary War. His Revolutionary War service is documented in two statements made in an application for bounty land.^[6] On 10 April 1816, Thomas H. Luckett, "one of the legal representatives of Thomas H. Luckett, decd., late an officer in the revolutionary army of the United States" applied for his father's bounty lands on behalf of himself "and other heirs."^[7] They were awarded 400 acres of land, location unspecified.

1978 newspaper article

Excerpts from "Lucketts History," Loudoun Times Mirror, June 1978, by Eugene Scheel (posted by FamilySearch)

The Luckett's Family Before Loudoun County's formation in 1757: Members of the Luckett family owned Potomac River bottom land in Maryland, across the river from Virginia's Lost Corner. In 1770, Thomas Hussey Luckett married Elizabeth Noland, daughter of wealthy Loudoun County Virginia ferry owner and property speculator, Philip Noland, who had built and operated a ferry across the Potomac since 1775. It was not until 13 September 1785 that Loudoun County records show that Philip Noland sold 182 and one-half acres to his son-in-law. ...

About a quarter-century later, on 5 May 1809, Elizabeth Noland Luckett sold her husband's plantation to Samuel Clapham whose father Josias Clapham owned property surrounding the Loudoun Luckett's property. The younger Thomas Luckett lived on his other Loudoun lands, with his manor house at the southwest corner of the crossroads at today's Village of Lucketts.

That house, still standing in 1809, was lived in by Thomas's son, Samuel Luckett, in the 1820's. Upon Samuel's death in 1831, his lands of about 132 acres were divided among his wife and their four sons, William, Roger, Josiah and Luther. William Luckett and his wife Mary, lived at the old Luckett homestead at the crossroads until years after the Civil War. (see the FamilySearch post for more "Lucketts History")

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1. ↑ estimate based on order of birth & his older sibling's birth in 1747 (given on his father's profile page
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} See his father's profile.
3. ↑ see her father's profile (named as daughter, Elizabeth Luckett, in his 1794 Will)
4. ↑ It was entered into the will books of both Loudoun county, Virginia and Frederick county, Maryland. See: Loudoun County Virginia, "Will books, 1757-1879 ; indexes, 1757-1949" > "Will books, v. A-C 1757-1788", digital images, DGS 007645410, image 570 of 622, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99P6-5W4N?i=567&cat=415823); citing Leesburg, Virginia, Loudoun County Courthouse, Will Book C, p. 253 and also: "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT15-96ZG?cc=1803986&wc=SNYC-FM3%3A146535301%2C147314001), Frederick > Wills 1794-1803 vol 3 > DGS 007645410, image 76 of 332; citing Hall of Records, Annapolis, Frederick County Wills, Liber GM3, p. 129.
5. ↑ Maryland Chronicle, or Universal Advertiser (Frederick, Maryland), 7 Feb 1787, p. 4, col. 2.
6. ↑ http://www.revwarapps.org/VAS996.pdf
7. ↑ Affidavit of Presley Cordell, 8 April 1816, Bounty Land Warrant No. 653-400, Thomas H. Luckett (Maryland, Revolutionary War), "Revolutionary War Pensions," database with images, Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com : accessed 17 Jun 2022); imaged from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Archives microfilm publication M804, roll 1599.