At the time of 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.
[1] Thomas's father, Peter, who migrated to the Virginia colony sometime in the 1600s from Cheshire in England was a nephew of Edward Massie, and a planter who served as surveyor of the highways in New Kent County from 1708 until his death in 1719.
He was also the owner and founder of the Windsor Forest Plantation located near the Chickahominy river in the same county after he was granted 1,155 acres of land in 1690.
[2] Thomas married Mary Massie (née Walker) on November 23, 1698, in New Kent, County.
[3] Mary was the great-granddaughter of reverend and lawyer Samuel Thomas Walker, a survivor of the Indian massacre of 1622 at Jamestown,[4][5] together Thomas and Mary had eleven children, including their son William Massie who would also go on to serve as a member of the House of Burgess representing New Kent County.