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It was thought good policy to settle those lands as fast as possible, and that the granting them to men of the first consequence who were likeliest and best able to procure large bodies of people to settle on them was the most probable means of effecting the end proposed.

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Thomas Nelson

Born: December 26, 1738
Died: January 4, 1789
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Profession: Planter

Biography

Thomas Nelson Jr. was an American planter, soldier, and statesman from Yorktown, Virginia, considered one of the U.S. Founding Fathers. In addition to serving in the Virginia General Assembly for many terms, he twice represented Virginia in the Continental Congress. Fellow Virginia legislators elected him to serve as the Commonwealth's Governor in 1781.

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