Thomas Massie.

About Thomas Massie

Thomas William Massie was a planter, politician, militia officer and vestryman in colonial Virginia. By his death around 1731, he owned 4,000 acres of land in New Kent County, Virginia near the Little Byrd Creek in what is now Goochland County, Virginia as part of his family's Windsor Forest Plantation, which he inherited from his father. In effect, this man established what some considered one of the First Families of Virginia, and later generations of the family often used his first name, but the only man of the same name who achieved political prominence was grandson, Major Thomas Massie, who served with distinction in the American Revolutionary War and established the family on the Tye River.