Thomas Dew (died c. 1691) was a Virginia landowner and politician representing Nansemond County.
[1][2][3] His birth date and location are uncertain, though he had to have reached legal age (21) before he settled in Nansemond County in 1634 as discussed below.
[4] Dew settled in the vicinity of the Nansemond River by 1634, and in 1642 represented what was then-called "Upper Norfolk County" (but a decade later became Nansemond County) in the General Assembly.
[5] Nansemond County voters then re-elected Dew to what became called the House of Burgesses in every session until 1656, and in the second (November) session of 1652 he succeeded his neighbor Edward Major as Speaker; with burgesses electing Walter Chiles of Charles City County their speaker in the next session.
[2] Notwithstanding later Quaker opposition to slavery, his descendants or that of family members likely owned slaves.