THIRTEENTH GENERATION

4196. Thomas Moorman⁽³⁹²⁾ was born about 1593 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.⁽³⁹³⁾ He owned shares in the Virginia Land Company of London in 1624 in Virginia.⁽²⁶⁹⁾⁽³⁹⁴⁾ Thomas Moorman was given shares in the Virginia Land Company of London along with John Clarke, the Navigator of the Bona Nova, and the Mayflower of 1620.

Tucker: Note: Thomas Moorman, father of Zahariah was dead before Zachariah joined the Army in 1640. He was not the Thomas Moreman of Warwickshire who came to VA on the Bono Novo in 1620. He died in 1640 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.⁽³⁹⁵⁾ In 1620, while he was in Jamestown, Virginia, he received word that his wife had bore a son, Zachariah.

In 1625, Thomas Moorman "Yeoman" won a suit over tithes of Bronchurch which he had refused to pay.

George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, made a visit to Virginia in 1672. He had been preceded by several missionaries in 1656 and 1657 so we cannot guess when the conversion of the Moorman's to that faith took place. However we know that during his visit Fox spoke at a meeting on the Nansemond River which was "attended by Maj. Gen Bennett and others" ... and many were converted at that time.

Tucker: Note: Thomas Moorman, father of Zachariah was dead before Zachariah joined the Army in 1640. He was not the Thomas Moreman of Warwickshire who came to Virginia on the Bono Novo in 1620. Children were:

1040 i. Capt Zachariah Moorman.

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