In an earlier message [log in to unmask] wrote: > I have in my notes somewhere that Adam (or his father Argall) Thorowgood > originated in Lynn, England. I believe that is in Kent. > > The spelling of the name Thorowgood is corrupted in every way > possible. I certainly agree with the latter statement. But Adam Thoroughgood came from Norfolk. _Virginia Heraldica_, edited by Wm. Armstrong Crozier (Baltimore, 1978, originally published 1908), p. 60: "Thoroughgood. Elizabeth City. "Arms: Sable on a chief argent, three buckles lozengy of the first. . . . "The pedigree of the Virginia family is contained in the Visitation of Essex (Harleian Society Pub.). They descended originally from John Thorogood of Chelston Temple, county Herts. Capt. Adam Thoroughgood, son of William of Norwich and Anne Edwards, his wife, was born in 1602 and came to Virginia in 1621. He was Commissioner and Burgess for Elizabeth City in 1629. In 1634 he removed to Lynnhaven Bay, in the Present Princess Anne county, and was a member of the Council from there in 1637. He died in 1640. He married Sarah Offley of London, and by her had issue: Adam, Ann, Sarah, and Elizabeth. The son, Adam, was Lieut.-Col. and Burgess for Lower Norfolk in 1666 and Justice and Sheriff in 1669. He married a daughter of Col. Argall Yeardley of Northampton county, and had issue: Argall, John, Adam, Robert, Francis, and Ann." Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10 Mar 1997: "VIRGINIA BEACH -- The remains of Capt. Adam Thoroughgood, the 17th-century founding father of Virginia Beach, lie deep and nearly forgotten in the muck of the Lynnhaven River, in the shadow of an expensive new subdivision. . . . "The seventh son of an Anglican vicar, he first sailed from England to Virginia in 1621 as an indentured servant. After fulfilling his duties, he returned to England and set out recruiting people to help colonize the New World. "He delivered 105 colonists to the frontier zone that's now Virginia Beach. "Thoroughgood was rewarded by the government of England with a grant of 5,350 choice acres -- 50 acres per recruit, including himself and his wife -- which made him one of the largest landowners in the Tidewater area. "He went on to hold virtually every important local public office before dying in 1640 at age 36. He was buried, as he had requested, in the cemetery of Lynnhaven Parish Church, which he helped establish on a peninsula jutting into the Lynnhaven River. . . . "Dr. Stephen Mansfield, president of the Princess Anne Historical Society and dean of Virginia Wesleyan College in Virginia Beach, . . . said the graves of Thoroughgood and others lie in the submerged churchyard off Church Point, on the western side of the Lynnhaven's Western Branch. There are unconfirmed accounts in history books of swimmers in the river in the early 1800s reading the words on submerged tombstones by running their toes across them. . . . "Some of the people Thoroughgood brought to America are ancestors of George Washington, George Mason, and Robert E. Lee." He must have died by 1639, as Norfolk Deed Book A, Mar. 4, 1639, 12, gives an inventory of his livestock. Probably the actual date was 1639/40. _Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_ (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981), vol. 5, p. 543: "[Augustine Warner's] transportation into Virginia by Adam Thoroughgood was due to his Norfolk County origin; for Adam Thoroughgood, gentleman, was baptized in 1603 at St. Botolph's, the parish church of Grimston, County of Norfolk, England, of which his father had been appointed vicar in 1581. [_Adventurers of Purse and Person_]. Their two families may well have been acquainted before Warner came to Virginia with Thoroughgood in the _Hopewell_ in 1628, the year that Thoroughgood returned from England with a wife and 33 other passengers whom he claimed as headrights along with others in 1635 [Land Office records at Richmond and _Cavaliers and Pioneers_]." Many Thorogoods were born in London in the appropriate time frame, some in the same parish as Offleys. They may be children of Adam's possible brother Sir John, of Kensington. Can anyone give me documentation of the relationship between Sir John Thorowgood, claimed by Paul Nagel to be "a personal attendant upon King Charles I", and Adam the immigrant? Nagel says in _The Lees of Virginia_, p. 9, "Perhaps because of her father's connections, Anne [Constable] became a ward of Sir John Thorowgood, a personal attendant upon King Charles I. This affiliation would have made it easy for her to know the family of Sir Francis Wyatt and to accompany them to North America." I have been unable to find any proof that the Constables and Thoroughgoods were connected in any way. Nagel says his source was the Lee Society (an undocumented paper delivered as a lecture by the society's genealogist some years ago); the society says the lecture did not cite a source for that datum. Can anyone help? Kathleen Much [log in to unmask] To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html