Thomas Child, Marker A-53
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member drmellow
N 36° 03.629 W 076° 36.685
18S E 354871 N 3991858
Thomas Child. Attorney-General of Colony, 1745-1761. Leader of faction which opposed Governor Dobbs. Secretary to Lord Granville. Home was 2 blocks S.
Waymark Code: WMT0Y
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2006
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GeoGordie
Views: 32

Text on marker:

Thomas Child
Attorney-General of Colony, 1745-1761. Leader of faction which opposed Governor Dobbs. Secretary to Lord Granville. Home was 2 blocks S.

This historical marker is located on US 17 Business (West Queen Street) in Edenton. It was erected in 1959.

The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has an essay on Thomas Child, from which the following information is excerpted:

Thomas Child represented Chowan County in the General Assembly in 1760 and 1761. His advocacy of the political and economic interests of the northern counties drew the admonition of Governor Arthur Dobbs. Child resigned his offices and moved to Virginia in August 1761. When the Granville land office closed in 1763 upon the death of John, Earl Granville, Child settled all of his American affairs and returned to England. There he attempted to purchase all of the Granville District lands from the second Earl Granville. Although he failed in that scheme, Child maneuvered the purchase of the quitrents for the nearly 100,000 acres owned by the Moravians. Child sold the quitrents to the Moravians in 1767 for an undisclosed figure, but the fact that the Moravians were still making payments on the purchase in 1789 implies that it was a lucrative deal. The sale of the Moravian quitrents severed Childs’ final link to the colony. He died in London in the early 1790s.

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Marker Name: A-53: Thomas Child

Marker Type: Roadside

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