1Address from the Virginia Militia, 6 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
...10th Regiment of Virginia militia. His brother Joel (1760–1846), an ensign during the Revolution, served in the Virginia legislature from 1792 to 1793 and rose to the rank of brigadier general in the state militia during the War of 1812. The Rev. William Leftwich, Jr. (1768–1848), was a Baptist minister and nephew of Thomas and Joel.