Alcott stood forward and asked the leader of the group, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, " Why are we not within?

* Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford executed May 12, 1641

* 1641 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman ( b. 1593 )

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

* April 13 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman ( d. 1641 )

* May 12 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman ( b. 1593 )

* Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford

Thomas Wentworth, who arrived as the new Lord Deputy in Ireland in 1633, deflected the pressure for conformity by stating that firstly, the Church of Ireland itself would have to be properly resourced, and he set about its re-endowment.

The Great Earl's most famous enemy was Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.

In 1591, he visited his native Altofts, and there married his second wife, Dorothy Wentworth 3 January 1601 ), a daughter of Thomas, 1st Baron Wentworth, becoming at the same time a landed proprietor in Yorkshire and Notts.

In 1641, Parliament passed a Bill of Attainder against the King's minister Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford who was fiercely loyal to Charles.

From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Two of the nation ’ s most radical abolitionists, Abby Kelley Foster and her husband Stephen S. Foster, adopted Worcester as their home, as did Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly and Emily Dickinson's avuncular correspondent, and Unitarian minister Rev.

When the grant lapsed, the town was rechartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 13, 1763 as Gilsum, combining the surnames of two proprietors, Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner.

On February 22, 1774, the town was incorporated by Governor John Wentworth as Packersfield, after a major proprietor, Thomas Packer, the sheriff at Portsmouth.

It was granted by Governor John Wentworth on February 8, 1772 to Sir Thomas Wentworth, Samuel Langdon and 81 others.

Sir Thomas Wentworth resided in West Bretton, England on his estate called Bretton Hall, after which the township was named Bretton Woods.

The town was granted as Stonington in 1761 to John Hogg and others by Governor Benning Wentworth, and first settled in 1767 by Thomas Burnside and Daniel Spaulding.

In 1751, Thomas Shepard submitted a petition on behalf of 64 grantees to Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth for 6 miles square on the Pemigewasset River.

Worcester argues that, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle for his appointment as governor.

Strafford County had been organized in 1773 during the administration of Colonial Governor John Wentworth, and named in honor of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.

Alcott served as a pallbearer along with Louis Agassiz, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

Thomas John Watson, Sr. ( February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956 ) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines ( IBM ), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.

He was considered Roosevelt's strongest supporter in the business community. The gravesite of Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Thomas Watson Sr. was interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York in 1956.

** Thomas Parran, Sr., American politician ( d. 1955 )

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.

Buddenbrooks ( 1901 ), by Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ), chronicles the moral decay of a rich family through its declines, material and spiritual, in the course of four generations, beginning with the patriarch Johann Buddenbrook Sr. and his son, Johann Buddenbrook Jr., who are typically successful German businessmen ; each is a reasonable man of solid character.

* Thomas Howard, Sr. ( born 1954 ), former American football linebacker who played nine seasons

The Borough Council is currently run by President Thomas J. Murray Sr.

Other significant figures in the early history of the company were Charles F. Kettering, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Edward A.

* Bishop Ted Thomas, Sr. ( 1967 -), Pentecostal African-American preacher, pastor of New Community Temple Church of God in Christ

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. attended the Inauguration of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson at the President's personal invitation and sat in the front row at Washington, D. C. Harvey founded the first Dodge Brothers Dealership in the World.

* Thomas Bland Harvey, Sr. ( 1898-1977 ) One of the oldest families in America and Virginia dating from a. d. 1584 in what was the Ronanok Colony, the first Dodge Brothers Dealer in the America, in 1969 Hurricane Camile he lost everything and is quoated Worldwide as saying " It's GODs WIll!

* 1850s Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., grandfather of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and his brother Jesse Thomas Johnson, set up a cattle business in Johnson City.

According to the 1955 book, Zeb's Black Baby, by Samuel Thomas Peace Sr .:

, members of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders ( with their term end dates and committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Freeholder Director William Whelan ( 2011 ; Finance ), Deputy Freeholder Director James A. Dunkins ( 2011 ; Health ), Samuel L. Fiocchi, Sr. ( 2013 ; Public Works ), Jane Jannarone ( 2011 ; Public Affairs, Cultural & History ), Carl W. Kirstein ( 2013 ; Public Property & Personnel ) and Thomas Sheppard ( 2012 ; Agriculture ).

* Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., ed., The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001 )

* Byron W. Woodson, Sr., A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson ( Praeger, 2001 )

The town started when Thomas Edwards Sr. bought the land from Judge Crockett in 1867.

Thomas Fitch eventually sold a large parcel of property to William Samuel Flemming Sr. in 1817.

The early settlers of the area were: Reuben Moss, George Robards, George Eakins, Bennett Sandefur, Jordan Moss, Enoch Spencer, Thomas Reidout, Ben Wall, Nathan Smith, T. W. Royster, James McMullin, Samuel McMullin, Sr.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Gosnold was first settled in 1641, the year of purchase of the islands by Thomas Mayhew, Sr.