Thomas Newton (1768–1847), son of longtime TJ correspondent Thomas Newton (1742–1807), represented a district including Norfolk in the United States House of Representatives, 1801–29. Educated at the College of William and Mary, he became a lawyer and merchant. Newton sat for Norfolk in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1796–99. He was a Republican who supported arming the militia and going to war with Great Britain. Newton corresponded occasionally with TJ and James Madison, sending them letters of introduction and acting as their agent in transporting goods such as wine, cider, and myrtle wax from Norfolk. After leaving Congress he served as recorder of the Hustings Court of the city of Norfolk (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; James A. Padgett, ed., “Letters from Thomas Newton,” WMQ description begins William and Mary Quarterly, 1892– description ends , 2d ser., 16 [1936]: 192–205; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 204, 208, 212; Newton to TJ, 3 July 1802 [DLC]; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1065, 1219; Norfolk City Will Book, 8:33–5).

William Robinson nimmo (b. ca. 1786), of Princess Anne County, moved to Baltimore by 1819 and spent parts of the next thirty-five years there as a writer, china merchant, teacher, and bookstore owner. He wrote My Companion; or, A Familiar Elucidation of the Most Interesting Problems on the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Baltimore, 1819) (Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary 1 [1896]: 129; C. Keenan, The Baltimore Directory, for 1822 & ’23 [Baltimore, 1822], 208; Matchett’s Baltimore Director for 1837 [Baltimore, 1837], 243; DNA: RG 29, CS, Md., Baltimore City, 1850; Matchett’s Baltimore Director for 1853–54 [Baltimore, 1853], 228).