Full Name Thomas Barbour Name Thomas Barbour Religion Presbyterian | Ethnicity European American Nationality American | |
Born 1735 Orange County, Virginia Died 16 May 1825
Barboursville, Barboursville, Virginia Citizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
United States of America Occupation planter, landowner, statesman, and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses | ||
Thomas Barbour (1735 – May 16, 1825) was a prominent landowner and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Thomas Barbour was born in 1735 in Orange County, Virginia, the son of James Barbour, 1707-1775. His elder brother James Barbour (burgess) represented Culpeper County, Virginia in the House of Burgesses from 1761-1765. Barbour married Mary Pendleton Thomas, a first cousin of Edmund Pendleton, in 1771. They had ten daughters (none of whom lived to old age) and five sons. Their sons who likewise held offices included James Barbour (18th Governor of Virginia and 11th United States Secretary of War) and Philip Pendleton Barbour (U.S. Congressman from Virginia and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court).
Barbour served as Justice of the Peace for Orange County, from 1768 until his death. From 1769 until 1776 (although the prorogued house had no qurum after June 24, 1775), Barbour represented Orange County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Thomas died at his son James Barbour's plantation, Barboursville in 1825.