♂ Thomas Lackey Sr.

1728 - 1801

Thomas Lackey Sr.
Spouse
Agnes Leech
Agnes Leech
1730 - 1814
Children
Margaret Lackey
Margaret Lackey
1767 - 1854

Thomas Lackey was a skillful craftsmen in woodworking, being a cabinet maker and a wheelright by trade.  A descendent who remembered having seen some of his wheels said they were each fine workmanship, having his initials carved in the wood.  He was remembered as having been six feet tall, resembling George Washington.  He was well educated, serving as a scrivener that did writings for many fellow settlers.  He also served as a scout in the American Revolution.

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1737


Age: 9y
Lackey Family Book Excerpt

immigration


Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
Immigrated from Ireland possibly with two brothers, and the Leech family, among whom Agnes and John were the only survivors of the trip.
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1737 Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war.

1754


Age: 26y
1754 Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-day Belize) and sacking the nearby towns.[http://www.inforpressca.com/melchordemencos/historia.php Historia del Municipio de Melchor de Mencos, Petén.]

1768


Age: 40y

residence


Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓
Thomas Lackey and Agnes Leech, along with her brother John and his wife Martha, moved to Shenandoah Valley, settling two miles west the Natural Bridge in what is now Rockbridge County. The large outside chimney of the old home still stands.
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1768 New Smyrna, Florida, the largest attempt at colonization by the British in the New World, is founded by Dr. Andrew Turnbull.

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