Robert Tucker (burgess 1753)

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  1. Robert's grandfather may have been George Tucker (died 1662) of Southampton Parish, Bermuda, who had sons Robert, John, and St. George, who died in 1710. [2]
  2. Jane Jackson Thompson was the matriarch of a number of children, seven of whom became Black Loyalists and served Lord Dunmore beginning in 1776. Her children had the surnames of Tucker, Jackson, and Thompson. One son, James Jackson, had been a slave of Robert Tucker and was recruited to be a pilot in the Royal Navy for Lord Dunmore. Her children and in-laws were either slaves of Robert Tucker, or slaves of his close associates. Jane was manumitted in 1769 by her husband, Talbot Thompson, with whom she lived before and after her manumission. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp.  345.
  2. 1 2 Jarvis, Michael J. (2012-12-01). In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783. UNC Press Books. p. 602. ISBN   978-0-8078-9588-7.
  3. 1 2 Bruce, Philip Alexander; Stanard, William Glover (1921). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society. pp.  521.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Col. Robert Tucker". Black Loyalist, Canada's Digital Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Hardy, Stella Pickett (1911). Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families who Settled in the Colonies Prior to the Revolution. Wright. p. 172.
  6. 1 2 3 The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758: Now First Printed Form the Manuscript in the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society. The Society. 1883. p. 416.
  7. 1 2 Lindsay, Lisa A.; Sweet, John Wood (2014). Biography and the Black Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 114, 116. ISBN   978-0-8122-4546-2.
  8. Lindsay, Lisa A.; Sweet, John Wood (2014). Biography and the Black Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 113–116. ISBN   978-0-8122-4546-2.
  9. 1 2 "The Mayors of Norfolk". Norfolk Public Library. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  10. 1 2 3 Jarvis, Michael J. (2012-12-01). In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783. UNC Press Books. p. 349, 350. ISBN   978-0-8078-9588-7.
  11. Stewart, William Henry (1902). History of Norfolk County, Virginia and Representative Citizens. Biographical Publishing Company. p. 34.
  12. Jarvis, Michael J. (2012-12-01). In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783. UNC Press Books. p. 605. ISBN   978-0-8078-9588-7.
Colonel Robert Tucker
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Norfolk
In office
1753–1755