Historical Properties

Gen. Thomas Nelson, Jr. - Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Secretary Thomas Nelson House

General Thomas Nelson House

The Rosewell Foundation

Belvoir Family Cemetery

Evans, Emory G. and Edward M. Riley, ed. Thomas Nelson and the Revolution in Virginia . Williamsburg, Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1978.

Evans, Emory G.,  Thomas Nelson of Yorktown: Revolutionary Virginian . Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Charlottesville: Distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 1975.

Evans, Emory G., The Nelsons: A biographical Study of a Virginia Family in the Eighteenth Century, Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services. (A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Emory G. Evans, B.A., M.A., Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 1957.

Lee, Nell Moore. Patriot Above Profit: A Portrait of Thomas Nelson, Jr., Who Supported the American Revolution With his Purse and Sword . Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1988.

Page, Richard Channing Moore, Page Family in Virginia,  (also a condensed account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton and Randolph Families),  Harrisonburg, Virginia, C.J.Carrier Company (reprinted), 1983.  Originally published in 1893.

Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, Vol. III, The Letters of Thomas Nelson and Benjamin Harrison,  Published by the Virginia State Library, H. R. McIlwaine, General Editor, Richmond, 1929.