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About Thomas Harwood
Captain Thomas Harwood emigrated from England and became a soldier, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia. He founded a family which like him for generations often represented the area now known as Newport News, but which in his day was known as Mulberry Island, and later Warwick River and still later Warwick County. Despite coming into conflict with royal governor Sir John Harvey in 1635, and a gap in legislative service, Harwood became the 5th speaker of the House of Burgesses.
Everything about Thomas Harwood →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Died
- 1652