Thomas Law
BIRTH
Oct 23, 1756
Cambridge, England
DEATH
July 31, 1834
unknown
FAMILY
FATHER:
Edmund Law
(1703-1787)
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Law, Thomas
(1756-1834)
Thomas Law was an English reformer, businessman, and investor who made a fortune in India before settling in the new federal city of Washington. He married Elizabeth Parke Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, and invested heavily in the capital’s early development.
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WIFE
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
(1776-1831)
Edmund Law
(1703-1787)
Elizabeth Parke Law
(1797-1822)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
unknown
Jul 31, 1834
Thomas Law was born on Oct 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Law with work or public activity as a merchant. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.