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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
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Author: James Gray Chandler
Thomas Lanier lived in Lunenburg County, Virginia. Thomas Lanier was seventy years old at the time of his second marriage to Frances Carter, widow of William Clanton, Jr. He was living in Brunswick County, Virginia when Lunenburg County was formed from Brunswick early in 1746 and his land fell in the new county. He was one of the first Justices, when the first Court assembled May 5,1746. He moved to Granville County, North Carolina between the purchase of land there October 21, 1761 and the sale of his land in Lunenburg County January 10 1764. During the Revolution he took the Oath of Allegiance in the Nut Bush District of Granville County and in 1783 was paid by the Auditors of the Hillsborough District "for sundries furnished, and cash paid the Militia of North and South Carolina and Virginia." Will dated 1804. Proved February 1806, Granville County, North Carolina
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