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332:, Ohio, and in Kentucky after the war, as administrator of his step-father-in-law's estate, he traveled to Nelson County to settle the estate before deciding to stay and purchase an addition 9,000 acres and built his plantation home called Level Green. When Nelson County was created from Amherst County in 1807, Thomas became one of the county's first magistrates.
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