1660) was a North American Colonial British planter and politician who served one term in the House of Burgesses.
He lived in what had become Elizabeth City County, and speculated in real estate throughout what had become the Virginia colony.
[1] John Curtis served as a third burgess representing Lancaster County in the 1659-1660 Virginia General Assembly session, alongside major landowners and legislative veterans John Carter and Henry Corbyn (or Corbin).
[2] Neither Thomas nor John Curtis (or Curtys) show in the few surviving early tax records for Lancaster County, except for the year 1668, when John Curtys who lived on the south side of the Rappahannock River (which the next year became Middlesex County) paid taxes for seven tithables (compared to Henry Corbin, Esq.
[4] Before Middlesex County's creation, in 1665, Curtis was a churchwarden and tried to collect levies and build chapels of ease in the county as well as hire a priest to serve Christ Church parish, possibly in 1659 when the rector died.