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== '''''Was the surveyor Thomas Woodward of Isle of Wight County, Virginia the same person as the Thomas Woodward who was Assay Master of the Mint in England in 1649?''''' ==
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''See also [[Thomas Woodward Part 2|Some Questions Regarding the Parentage of, and Other Issues Relating to, Thomas Woodward, Esq.]]''
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That the Thomas Woodward of Virginia (the land-surveyor)<sup>1</sup> was the same person as the Thomas Woodward who was Assay Master of the Mint<sup>2</sup>, is, I think, established beyond question by several facts:
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Foremost among these is the reference to his elder son John (in England) petitioning Charles II in 1661 for his father's old post<sup>3</sup>, and then (four years later) the mention of the post as being "vacant by death of John Woodward and the absence of Thomas Woodward, his father, who if alive, is at some plantation on York River, in Virginia"<sup>4</sup>.
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This area was in fact where Christopher Woodward then lived<sup>5</sup> &mdash; not Thomas (who actually resided in Isle of Wight County).  But that fact does not lessen the force of the connection, I think; rather, it merely shows that the officials back in London only thought that Thomas Woodward was then residing in the York River area of Virginia.
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Thomas Woodward of Virginia, in his 1677 will, implied that even he did not know if his son John was alive in England, or had produced any heirs<sup>6</sup>, indicating a serious lack of communication between them &mdash; probably of several years' duration.  Thus, it is absolutely no surprise that the government in London evidently had faulty and inaccurate information (probably through that same son John) about Thomas Woodward's whereabouts in 1665.
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From the excellent colonial American documentation I have seen for this Thomas Woodward, I can surmise that he evidently profited quite well off his North American ventures<sup>7</sup>, and this would be ample reason to prevent him from ever desiring to return to London and regain his old post there.
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John Bennett Boddie believed this Thomas Woodward to have been a cousin of some degree to both Col. Nathaniel Bacon and Col. Sir Philip Honywood<sup>8</sup> (though he did not directly state his sources for such a belief). This possibility, in and of itself, offers no real support for answering our question at hand, though (if true), it will provide indirect, circumstantial evidence showing our Thomas Woodward to have been a man from a privileged background, and one likely to have been comfortable in the company of the political elite of English society. Further evidence for Thomas Woodward’s privileged position in society (at least colonial American society) has already been seen in Boddie’s Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight.<sup>9</sup>
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And this leads us straight into a few final facts worth rehearsing, as we consider this question of the identities of the two Thomas Woodwards &mdash; here, and in England:
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Thomas Woodward’s political appointments in Virginia and Carolina included his serving variously as: clerk of Isle of Wight County, surveyor for Governor Berkeley (Virginia), secretary for the colony (Carolina), member of the Governor’s Council (Carolina), and (with Governor Drummond) a Commissioner in the dispute with Maryland and Virginia over tobacco planting.<sup>10</sup>
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One final question: Boddie had earlier stated that Thomas Woodward had departed England by “about 1649”<sup>11</sup> apparently arriving at this tentative date by comparison with the date on which Woodward was terminated from his post as Assay Master. Certainly, Thomas Woodward does not show up in Virginia until 1652, which is when he was first appointed as clerk of the county.<sup>12</sup> Assuming he was appointed thusly fairly soon after his arrival in the colony, we would be left with a gap of about three years, during which time anything could have happened. The Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 6, under date of  13 February, 1650, may possibly help fill this gap: it shows either that (a) this Thomas Woodward was still residing in England, and had been appointed as Sheriff of Surrey (his radical and outspoken Royalist politics notwithstanding)<sup>13</sup>, or (b) there was then another person by this name, also active in British politics and civil service:
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Resolved, upon the Question, by the Parliament, That Thomas Woodward Esquire be nominated and approved of to be High Sheriff of the County of Surrey for this present Year: And that the Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal of England do issue a Commission to him to be High Sheriff of the said County accordingly.<sup>14</sup>
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Though this last question (as also the issue of Woodward’s possible relationship to Bacon and Honywood) may never be resolved to our satisfaction, I think the evidence is fairly certain that the two Thomas Woodwards mentioned in this article—the surveyor in colonial America, and the Assay Master of the Mint in London, England, are in fact one and the same person.
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