- Thomas Dowse
Thomas Dowse, also known as Thomas Dawse and Thomas Dawles (born c.
1630 — will readJune 4 1683 ) was an English-American immigrant who represented City ofHenricus in the first meeting of theHouse of Burgesses onJuly 30 ,1619 at Jamestown,Virginia .Dowse was born in
England , but migrated to theAmerican colonies , becoming one of theAncient Planter s.In 1619, Brown states in his, "First Republic in America," that, "The City- of Henricus included Henrico (Farrar's Island), extending thence on both sides of James River to the westward, the pale run by Dale between the said river and the Appomattox River being the line on the South Side." It was represented in the House of Burgesses by Thomas Dowse and John Polentine. Henrico having keen selected as the site for a college and university, the first college in America, ten thousand acres (40 km²) were set by, as agreed, and the limits of the corporation were extended from the Falls of the James on the Popham side to what is now called Farrar's Island.
External links
* [http://www.doles.org genealogy page]
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coxcuz/ancient_planters.htm List of Ancient planters]
* [http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/cridlin1.htm Colonial History of Virginia]
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