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Thomas Goode, born on February 13, 1760, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was a descendant of John Goode, a colonist who settled in Virginia in 1660. He served in the Continental Army from 1776 to 1778 with Gen. George Washington and took part in the battles of Princeton and Trenton. Later, while serving in the Virginia Militia, he was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered on Oct. 17, 1781. An early settler of Covington, he lived at this site from 1826 until his death on December 20, 1846.
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Covington, Tennessee · United States
