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Thomas Stegg
Thomas
Stegg
was a
Virginia
merchant
and
politician
. He was the first
Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses
in the
1643
session
, when the
Burgesses
first
met
as a
separate
lower
house of
the
Virginia General Assembly
. He was the
grandfather
of
William Byrd I
through his
daughter
Grace
Stegge
Byrd
.