Thomas Massie

Thomas Massie (1747-1834) was an American planter, Continental Army military officer, and magistrate from Virginia during the American Revolutionary War who also served as an aide-de-camp to General Thomas Nelson at the Siege of Yorktown. Biography Thomas Massie was born August 22, 1747, in New Kent County, Virginia to William Massie and Martha Lucy Bland. Both his father and grandfather, Thomas Massie, had been members of the Virginia House of Burgess. Massie attended the College of William and Mary, starting at the age of 13 before withdrawing three years later to assist in the maintenance of his family's estate—the Windsor Forest Plantation in New Kent County—following the death of his father in 1751 and mother in 1759. When the American Revolution broke out, Massie would serve with the Elizabeth City District Battalion of Virginia minutemen in September 1775 before entering service with the Continental Army.