Thomas Milner (politician)

[1][2]: 286 [3] Although his parentage and date of birth are unknown or disputed, he is assumed to have emigrated to the Virginia colony from Yorkshire or Lincolnshire, in part because he used the same coat of arms as that Milner family.

By that time, Milner had begun his career as a planter by patenting 350 acres across from Dumpling Island in Nansemond County (based on people for whose emigration he had paid).

Milner was clerk of the Virginia General Assembly in 1684 and possibly as early as 1682, but disagreement exists as to whether he served as burgess for Nansemond County in 1682.

[3] Also undisputed is that Nansemond County voters elected Milner to represent them as a burgess in 1688, and re-elected him several times before his death.

James Blair arranged for Milner's appointment as trustee of the newly formed College of William and Mary.

[1] Likewise unknown is this man's relationship with John Milner who sided with Bacon and was exempted from the general pardon, and became a trader with Native Americans in Henrico County and associated with William Byrd I.

1665) who became a burgess representing Warwick County, but none of their children survived (his issue were with his second wife Mary Wilson Rowscow).