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20-593: Thomas Symonds may refer to: Thomas Symonds (Royal Navy officer, died 1792) , British naval captain of the American Revolutionary War Thomas Symonds (Royal Navy officer, died 1894) , Admiral of the Fleet Thomas Powell Symonds , Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford Tom Symonds , Australian rugby league player [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

40-647: A Lieutenant on 22 May 1755 and served on the Elizabeth , the Grafton and the Borwick (Pitcairn-Jones Naval List). On 18 February 1762, he was appointed Commander of the sloop Albany and was ordered to join Commodore Young's squadron then blockading the estuaries of the rivers Seine and Orne , France. The Albany joined that squadron on 8 July 1762. On 13 July 1762, he was the commanding officer of

60-467: A flotilla of small boats which, in a night raid, attempted to destroy landing barges moored in the river Orne. The attack failed. The following Court-Martial found Thomas Symonds "guilty of acting in a manner not becoming to an officer". He lost command of the Albany . In 1771, he attained post rank of Captain and took command of the "Captain". In 1776 he was captain of the "Solebay" which took part in

80-756: A large residential village inhabited since 1200 CE, with major earthworks constructed in 1400 CE, more than 200 years prior to the English colonists. In 2006 the Werowocomoco Archeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Excavations continue by a team from the College of William and Mary , the Virginia Department of Natural History and representatives of Virginia descendant tribes of

100-776: A prisoner of war he was appointed Captain of the Diadem . Thomas Symonds died in his brother's house in Bury St Edmunds on 25 May 1792. He is buried in Pakenham Church where there is a mural tablet to his memory and to that of his son, Jermyn John, Commander RN who was the commander of the Helena , a sloop of 14 guns which was lost with him and all his crew in a gale off the Dutch coast in October 1796 (some authorities put

120-576: A route through a portion of this natural area between Williamsburg and Yorktown . The only vehicular crossing of the York River is the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge , a swing-type drawbridge which carries U.S. Highway 17 between Yorktown and Gloucester Point . The toll bridge , which was rebuilt and expanded in the mid-1990s, collects a $ 2 toll for automobile traffic; the fee is collected only from northbound drivers. The bridge has been one of

140-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Symonds (Royal Navy officer, died 1792) Symonds was the second son of the Rev John Symonds, rector of Horringer , Suffolk, and his wife, Mary Spring (died 1774), daughter of Sir Thomas Spring of Pakenham and Hon. Merelina Jermyn, daughter of Thomas Jermyn . His elder brother

160-502: Is now Gloucester County , the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy maintained Werowocomoco , one of two capitals of the paramount chiefdom at the time of European contact before 1609. In 2002–2003, archeological evidence was found of an extensive ancient settlement on the York River at Purtan Bay. With excavations since then, researchers have concluded this is likely the site of Werowocomoco. They have found evidence of

180-830: The Powhatan. The peninsula formed by the York and the James rivers just to the south became the scene of the end campaign of the American Revolutionary War in October 1781. The British Army under Cornwallis at Yorktown found itself cornered by the Americans under George Washington on land and by the French fleet at sea. The ensuing American victory at the Battle of Yorktown forced the surrender of Cornwallis and

200-771: The bay approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Yorktown , which sits along its southern shore. U.S. Highway 17 crosses the estuary from Yorktown to Gloucester Point on the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge . The York River was formerly known as the Pamunkey River by the Native Americans . Colonists of the Virginia Company in the 17th century first called it the Charles River. On the north bank (the Middle Peninsula ), in what

220-694: The bombardment of Fort Moultrie overlooking Charleston Harbour. In 1780, in England, he replaced John Luttrell as captain of HMS  Charon , and sailed for America with a naval force. On 13 August 1780 the Charon accepted after a lengthy engagement the surrender of the Comte d'Artois , a French privateer off the Irish coast. After successful anti-convoy operations on the Atlantic crossing and coastal cruising,

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240-870: The end of the war in the east. During the American Civil War , the same area became the theater of the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. York River State Park is located along the southern shore northwest of Yorktown in James City County . Also on the south shore are several large military reservations, including Camp Peary and the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown (and Cheatham Annex) of the U.S. Navy . Large areas of preserved wetlands and forest are considered ecologically important to migratory waterfowl. The National Park Service's Colonial Parkway provides

260-523: The house immediately, with his clothes tied in a bundle over his shoulder, and keeping his intentions to himself, trudged off to Harwich, where he was invited to try his luck at sea, by the captain of a vessel of war, who had been staying with his father. He was not heard of again until he had become a Master and Commander in the Navy, when he paid a short visit to his brother." He entered the Royal Navy as

280-519: The loss as 3 November 1796). Thomas Symonds married twice, first to Mary Noble who died in 1777 and who is buried in St James's church in Bury, secondly to Elizabeth Mallet. In his Will, proved 15 June 1792, Thomas Symonds left bequests to his wife Elizabeth, to his sons Jermyn John, Thomas Edward, and John Charles and to his daughters, Mary Anne, Elizabeth, Juliana, Merelina, and Sophia His daughter

300-684: The river was also the scene of early settlements of the Virginia Colony . It was the site of significant events and battles in both the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War . The York River is formed at West Point , approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Richmond, by the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers. It drains into the Chesapeake Bay towards the southeast, entering

320-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Symonds&oldid=1043750337 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

340-682: The ship became trapped in the York River, Virginia , where Symonds took supreme command of British naval forces in America. Charon was destroyed and sunk with red-hot shot soon afterwards. At the end of the siege of Yorktown , it was he (as the most senior naval officer present) and Charles Cornwallis , Lieutenant General of the British Armed Forces, who signed the Articles of Capitulation on 18 October 1781. After his release as

360-441: The west side of Chesapeake Bay . Its watershed drains an area of the coastal plain of Virginia north and east of Richmond . Its banks were inhabited by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. In 2003 evidence was found of the likely site of Werowocomoco , one of two capitals used by the paramount chief Powhatan before 1609. The site was inhabited since 1200 as a major village. Enormously important in later U.S. history,

380-519: Was Mary Anne Whitby , his son was William Symonds , Surveyor of the Navy , and his grandsons included William Cornwallis Symonds , Thomas Symonds , Julian Symonds, and Jermyn Symonds . York River, Virginia The York River is a navigable estuary , approximately 34 miles (55 km) long, in eastern Virginia in the United States . It ranges in width from 1 mile (1.6 km) at its head to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) near its mouth on

400-411: Was academic John Symonds (1730–1807). According to Sir William Symonds' memoirs, the boys learned young that John, as the eldest son , would inherit the family estates: "[John and Thomas] were informed that all the property would be left to John, the eldest; and Tom was cautioned by his mother not to hang upon his brother. Being a very spirited boy, he took this injunction so much to heart that he left

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