{"id":20902,"date":"2026-04-23T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20902"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:27:01","slug":"the-founders-thomas-nelson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20902","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Thomas Nelson Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thomas Nelson Jr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigadier General Thomas Nelson of the Virginia Militia was a hero in the Battle of Yorktown. Upon learning that the British General Cornwallis was using his families mansion as his HQ he called on George Washington to fire artillery at his house. Years earlier he was a member of the Virginia delegation to the Continental Congress and became a signer of the Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

His fortune was depleted by the war which he helped finance and he died in poverty at the age of 51 in 1789. Another scion of a great Virginia family who contributed to the founding of our nation, was scarred by his slavery connections and is now mostly forgotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definitely a C on the Simon Familiarity Index (SFI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Nelson Jr Brigadier General Thomas Nelson of the Virginia Militia was a hero in the Battle of Yorktown. Upon learning that the British General Cornwallis was using his families mansion as his HQ he called on George Washington to fire artillery at his house. Years earlier he was a member of the Virginia delegation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543],"tags":[1541,311,1570,1571],"class_list":["post-20902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","tag-founding-fathers","tag-politics","tag-thomas-nelson","tag-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-10.20.28-AM.png?fit=782%2C906&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5r8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}