Thomas G. CLUVERIUS

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Middle name may have been Gibson. Source: Sharon McInroy legacies@frontiernet.net

Thomas most likely is the son of Gibson Cluverius. Thomas was deceased when his mother Susan applied for a Revolutionary War pension.

Gibson Cluverius, d. Feb. 23, 1789, Gloucester Co. Widow's pension application of Mrs. Susan (Whiting) Cluverius Lowry, a resident of Elizabeth City Co., Va., when she made an affidavit dated Aug. 26, 1850, "stating that she was 77 years in August last"; "she stated that her first husband, Gibson Cluverius, served in the Rev. War. Principally in the County of Gloucester....and in the service of the State of Virginia. That she knows of no battles in which her said husband was engaged but has heard him speak of his company being fired at by the enemy's ship entering York River."

Gibson Cluverius m. in Gloucester on March 4, 1786, to Susan Whiting who m. (2) on Sept. 29, 1791, to John Lowry (d. 1821) of Gloucester. Gibson Cluverius and his wife Susan Whiting had issue. Their eldest child was daughter Elizabeth b. 1787, who m. (1) in 1802 to Anthony Armistead and (2) in 1818 to Robert Lowry. She, the daughter, was living in Elizabeth City Co., with her mother in 1850. Cluverius had probably at least one other child (Thomas). Pension application W. 8061. (National Archives).

LAND AND TAX RECORDS

"Cluverius Place" at the head of Willett's Creek formerly known as "Bryant's Reach"

Thomas Cluverius first appears on the Gloucester Co. VA Tax Lists in 1809, showing 1 free male, 6 slaves, and 3 horses. His taxable assets are the same for 1810 as well.

On the 1810 US Census for Gloucester Co. VA, Gloucester Town, listed as head of household, age 16 to 26, with one female, age 16 to 26, p resumably his wife, and 17 slaves.

For 1811 Gloucester Co. VA Tax Lists for personal property Thomas shows 1 free male, 7 slaves, 4 horses, and 1 gig. In 1812 1 free male, 6 slaves, 5 horses and 1 gig.

Gloucester Co. VA Tax Lists for personal property 1813 Thomas G. Cluverius shows 1 free male, 5 slaves 5 horses, and 1 gigg. 1814: 1 free male, 3 slaves, 4 horses, and 1 gig. 1815: 1 free male, 3 slaves, 3 horses, 7 cattle, 1 chest of drawers, 4 mahogany tables and or bedsteads. 1816: 1 white male, 6 slaves over the age of 12, and 3 horses. 1817: 1 white male, 3 slaves over the age of 12, and 1 horse. 1818: 1 white male, 2 slaves over the age of 12. 1819: 1 white male, 2 slaves over theage of 12. 1820: 1 white male, 4 slaves, and 1 horse.

Gloucester Co. VA Land Tax 1810-1817
Thomas G. Cluverius has 237.33 acres On Severn River; 10 miles S.E. from the court house.

Gloucester Co. VA Land Tax 1818-1819
Thomas G. Cluverius has 77.50 On Severn River On Severn River; 14 miles S.E. from the court house.

Gloucester Co. VA Land Tax 1820
Hogg, John Sr. 25.00 acres Near Severn River 14miles S.E. from the court house.
Transferred to him by Thomas Cluverius and others. Deed recorded in Gloucester Court Office, Called Buck's Neck.

Mouring, Henry 137.50 acres Near Severn River 13 miles S.E. of court house.
Transferred to him by Thomas G. Cluverius & Others. Deed recorded in Gloucester Court Office.

Gloucester Co. VA Tax Lists for personal property 1821: Thomas G. Cluverius 2 slaves, 1 horse. 1822: 3 slaves. 1823: 2 slaves, 1 horse, 1 two-wheel carriage. 1824: 2 slaves, 1 horse, 1 carryall. 1825: 1 slave. 1826: nothing taxable. 1827: 2 slaves. 1828: 1 slave. 1829: 1 slave. 1830: nothing taxable.

Gloucester Co. VA Tax Lists for personal property for Thomas G. Cluverius 1831: nothing taxable. 1832, 1833: nothing taxable. 1834, 1835: nothing taxable. 1836: 1 slave.

Thomas G. Cluverius disappears from the Tax Lists after 1836. So he died around 1836 or 1837 before the next Tax list for personal property was done.

CENSUS RECORDS

1810 United States Federal Census
Name: Thos Cluverues [Cluverius]
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 [Thomas]
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 [Courtney]
Numbers of Slaves: 17
Number of Household Members: 19

1820 United States Federal Census
Name: Thomas G Cleworius [Cluverius]
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Gloucester, Virginia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 [Thomas]
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 [Courtney]
Slaves - Males - Under 14: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 14: 2
Slaves - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Slaves - Females - 45 and over: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total Slaves: 5
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 10

1830 United States Federal Census
Name: Thomas G Chaverins [Thomas G Cluverius]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Gloucester, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 [Thomas]
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 [Courtney]
Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9

1840 US Census lists Courtney as head of household, so he must have died between 1830 and 1840.

MILITARY RECORDS

Sergt. Thomas G. Cluverius is on Muster Rolls, P. 652 for War of 1812. Part of index to: Pay Rolls of Militia Entitled to Land Bounty Under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (Richmond, 1851) and: Muster Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 (Richmond, 1852) which supplements Pay Rolls. This collection is also available on microfilm.

Thomas married Courtney SEAWELL. Courtney (daughter of John SEAWELL and Frances (Fanny) HOBDAY) was born Between 1790 and 1794, Gloucester Co. VA; died 1855, Gloucester Co VA. [Group Sheet]

1. William CLUVERIUS was born Abt 1825.
2. Beverly Whiting CLUVERIUS was born 1828, Gloucester Co., VA; died 15 Oct 1888, King and Queen Co. VA.
3. Mary CLUVERIUS was born Abt 1831.
4. Washingon Lafayette CLUVERIUS was born 30 May 1834; died 01 Jan 1870; was buried , Portlock Cemetery, Portsmouth, VA.
5. Richard S. CLUVERIUS

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Gibson Cluverius, d. Feb. 23, 1789, Gloucester Co. Widow's pension application of Mrs. Susan (Whiting) Cluverius Lowry, a resident of Elizabeth City Co., Va., when she made an affidavit dated Aug. 26, 1850, "stating that she was 77 years in August last"; "she stated that her first husband, Gibson Cluverius, served in the Rev. War. Principally in the County of Gloucester....and in the service of the State of Virginia. That she knows of no battles in which her said husband was engaged but has heard him speak of his company being fired at by the enemy's ship entering York River."

Gibson Cluverius m. in Gloucester on March 4, 1786, to Susan Whiting who m. (2) on Sept. 29, 1791, to John Lowry (d. 1821) of Gloucester. Gibson Cluverius and his wife Susan Whiting had issue. Their eldest child was daughter Elizabeth b. 1787, who m. (1) in 1802 to Anthony Armistead and (2) in 1818 to Robert Lowry. She, the daughter, was living in Elizabeth City Co., with her mother in 1850. Cluverius had probably at least one other child (Thomas). Pension application W. 8061. (National Archives).

Revolutionary War Roster Gloucester County Virginia compiled by Elizabeth Dutton Lewis: CLUVERIUS, Gibson, Capt. Gloucester Mil. 1775-1776, served principally in Gloucester Co. ... and in the lower part called "Guinea" and in service of the State of Virginia; m. in Gloucester on March 4, 1786, Susan Whiting, who m. (2) on September 29, 1791, John Lowry (d. 1821) of Gloucester. Mrs. Susan Lowry applied for pension on August 26, 1850, W. 8061. Cluverius d. in Gloucester February 23, 1789. Heirs: Elizabeth b. 1787, m. (1) in 1802 Anthony Armistead (2) in 1818 Robert Lowry. In 1850 she was living in Elizabeth City County with her mother; probably another child. (Eck.; Gwathmey, p. 160; National Archives).



Appendix A: ... The Virginia Gazette of October 21, 1775, reports the action of the court held September 13, 1775. ... nominated as officers in the Militia for Gloucester County ... Captains: Gibson Cluverius ...

Appendix H: Virginia State Library List of Revolutionary Soldiers, Gloucester County, VA ... Cluverius, Gibson, Capt. Glo. Mil. CJ 1776-77; VG 21 Oct. 1775.

CLUVERIUS Gibson 174?
Virginia, capt. Historical reg. of officers of the Continental Army. By Francis Bernard Heitman. Washington, DC, 1914. (685p.):161

CLUVERIUS Gibson 174?
Virginia, mil, sea capt.
Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, saliors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed.By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, 1938. (13,872p.):160

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 2. (Oct., 1906), pp. 123-124.

Page 123.

OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE GLOUCESTER CO. (VA.) COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 1775.

From the "Virginia Gazette," by Alexander Purdie, October 21, 1775.

At a Committee held for Gloucester County, at the Courthouse of the said County, on the 13th day of September, 1775: Present: WARNER LEWIS, ESQ., Chairman and 32 members.

Agreeable to the ordinance of the Convention, the following Gentlemen were nominated officers in the militia, for the County of Gloucester.

Warner Lewis, Esq: County Lieutenant. Sir John Peyron, Baronet, Colonel. Thomas Whiting, Gent. Lietenant Colonel. Thomas Boswell, Gent. Major.

Captains. Gibson Cluverius. John Camp. Richard Matthews. George Booth. Jasper Clayton. John Hubbard. James Hubbard.


Gloucester Co. VA Tax List 1787
Cluverius, Gibson 753.6 acres

Gloucester Co. VA Tax List 1789
Cluverius, Gibson 376.33 acres

Gloucester Co. VA Tax List 1790
Cluverius, Gibson estate 376.33 acres

Gloucester Co. VA Tax List 1791
Cluverius, Susanna 376.33 acres

Gibson married Susanna WHITING 4 Mar 1786, Gloucester Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Revolutionary War Roster Gloucester County Virginia compiled by Elizabeth Dutton Lewis: CLUVERIUS, Gibson, Capt. Gloucester Mil. 1775-1776, served principally in Gloucester Co. ... and in the lower part called "Guinea" and in service of the State of Virginia; m. in Gloucester on March 4, 1786, Susan Whiting, who m. (2) on September 29, 1791, John Lowry (d. 1821) of Gloucester. Mrs. Susan Lowry applied for pension on August 26, 1850, W. 8061. Cluverius d. in Gloucester February 23, 1789. Heirs: Elizabeth b. 1787, m. (1) in 1802 Anthony Armistead (2) in 1818 Robert Lowry. In 1850 she was living in Elizabeth City County with her mother; probably another child. (Eck.; Gwathmey, p. 160; National Archives).

A History of Two Virginia Families Transplanted From County Kent, England. Thomas Baytop, Tenterden, 1638, and John Catlett, Sittingbourne, 1622 - Page 159-160.

Col. Thomas Whiting (b. 1712, d. 1781), influential
merchant at Gloucester Town 1751, burgess 1758, colonel of
Gloucester militia 1775, mar. (I) Elizabeth (b. 1740, d. 1766), dau. of John Thruston and wife, Sarah Mynn; (II) Elizabeth, dau. of Wm. Beverly, of "Blandfield" ; (III)" Elizabeth, dau. of John Seawell, of Gloucester, who mar. (II) Samuel Cary. Issue, fifteen children, of whom eight survived him, as mentioned in his will, Oct. 15, 1780 ((Va. Hist. May., XVIII, 358; William and Mary Quarterly, IV, 108): "To son Thomas, 600 acres in Abingdon parish, 30 slaves and houses and lots in Gloucester town (Gloucester Point); son Henry, one-half the Hackney and Munford plantation in Abingdon parish; son Horatio G., one-half of above plantation ; to daughters, Sarah, 15 slaves; Catherine B., 15 slaves; Elizabeth Thruston, 15 slaves; Susannah, 15 slaves; Jane, 15 slaves, and Ann Beverley, 15 slaves." Of these:

(1) Elizabeth (d. 1722), mar. (I) (1782) her cousin, John Thruston (b. 1761, d. 1802), son of Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston;

(II) Capt. Aaron Fontaine, of Louisville.

(2) Sarah, mar. James Hubard, and had son, Thomas Hubard.

(3) Catherine Beverley, mar. (I) Lieut. Stevenson, of the
Revolution; (II) William Lowry, and had Thomas Whiting Lowry.

(4) Thomas Beverly, mar. (I) ? Whiting; (II) Elizabeth
Kennon, widow of Henry Perrin, and had Dr. Tom and Kennon
Whiting, of Gloucester (b. 1796), mar. Ann Wythe Mallory,
parents of Gen. Julian Wythe Whiting, of Mobile, Ala.

(5) Susanna, mar. (I) (1786) Gibson Cluverius, d 1790; (II)
(1792) John Lowry, brother of William (above). [second husband of her sister, Catherine Beverley Whiting Stevenson]

(6) Jane, mar. Chas. Grymes, and had Charles and Mary Grymes.

(7) Henry (d. 1810), executor of John C. Pryor.

(8) Horatio Gates.

(9) Anne Beverley, mar. (I) Major John C. Pryor, of the Revolution; (II) Charles Fremont. Issue: Gen. John C. Fremont, U. S. A.



Gibson Cluverius, d. Feb. 23, 1789, Gloucester Co. Widow's pension application of Mrs. Susan (Whiting) Cluverius Lowry, a resident of Elizabeth City Co., Va., when she made an affidavit dated Aug. 26, 1850, "stating that she was 77 years in August last"; "she stated that her first husband, Gibson Cluverius, served in the Rev. War. Principally in the County of Gloucester....and in the service of the State of Virginia. That she knows of no battles in which her said husband was engaged but has heard him speak of his company being fired at by the enemy's ship entering York River."

Gibson Cluverius m. in Gloucester on March 4, 1786, to Susan Whiting who m. (2) on Sept. 29, 1791, to John Lowry (d. 1821) of Gloucester. Gibson Cluverius and his wife Susan Whiting had issue. Their eldest child was daughter Elizabeth b. 1787, who m. (1) in 1802 to Anthony Armistead and (2) in 1818 to Robert Lowry. She, the daughter, was living in Elizabeth City Co., with her mother in 1850. Cluverius had probably at least one other child (Thomas). Pension application W. 8061. (National Archives).


Gloucester Co. VA Tax List 1790
Cluverius, Gibson estate 376.33 acres

Gloucester Co. VA Tax List 1791
Cluverius, Susanna 376.33 acres

Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, p.107 has Susanna Whiting as the daughter of Thomas Whiting and Elizabeth Seawell. It indicates that a chancery suit in Williamsburg in 1810 proves the relationship.

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Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Seawell Family, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1899), pp. 54-62

Was her first husband. He was from "Gloucester Town." made his will Oct. 15, 1780

Maria Edwards, daughter of John B. Seawell and Maria Henry Tyler, described him as "a very wealthy man of Gloucester Town."

From Gloucester Co. VA.

Source: Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol 1, page 393.

Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, p.107 has Susanna Whiting as the daughter of Thomas Whiting and Elizabeth Seawell. It indicates that a chancery suit in Williamsburg in 1810 proves the relationship.

Thomas married Elizabeth SEAWELL. [Group Sheet]

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Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, p.107 has Susanna Whiting as the daughter of Thomas Whiting and Elizabeth Seawell. It indicates that a chancery suit in Williamsburg in 1810 proves the relationship.

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Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Seawell Family,Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1899), pp. 54-62

Narrative of Maria Edwards, daughter of John B. Seawell and Maria Henry Tyler.

His brother John, who was my great grandfather, built on the adjoining tract. He built first on Timber Neck creek, the place called the "White-house," which still bears the name. Here there was a handsome house. As a child, my father took me there to get cherries and English walnuts. This house was burned down, just after all the furniture had been imported; mirrors thrown out of the windows, etc. This was told me by an old servant, who followed his young master, one of the Cleaver family, to Braddock's defeat. My great-grandfather then build the house in which I was born, Gloucester Place. I forget the date, but before the Revolution. His wife when he married her, was a widow Thornton. My father remembered her, and said she was handsome, with expressive black eyes. He bore her maiden name, Boswell, as his middle name.

My great-grandfather was an importing merchant, and the "war" interfered sadly with his business. The American and French troops at one time camped in the field on the left hand side as you go up to the house called the Wind-mill field, and fed to their horses, and destroyed a fine crop of corn. Many years afterwards my uncle John Tyler found, in an old "day-book" a full account of it, in which my great-grandfather stated his grievances, and thought my father should have put it in his hands while he was in Congress.


In a list of slave owners in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, 1786, the largest slave-holders were: John Page, 160; Warren Lewis, 143; John Perrin, 116; John Seawell, Sr., 39; Samuel Cary, 39; Joseph Cluverius, 32, &c.

John married Jane BOSWELL. [Group Sheet]

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Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Seawell Family,Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1899), pp. 54-62

Francis Thornton was her first husband.