Captain Thomas Harwood (died 1652) was a Virginian soldier, landowner and politician. He founded a family which like him for generations often represented the area now known as Newport News, but which in his day was known as Mulberry Island, and later Warwick River and still later Warwick County. Despite coming into conflict with royal governor Sir John Harvey in 1635, and a gap in legislative service, Harwood became the 5th speaker of the House of Burgesses.
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1652 (aged ) Warwick County, Colony of Virginia
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