Thomas Hall
(around 1629) U-K. - U.S.A.
Colonial settler
Thomas Hall (Thomasine Hall); soldier, then lacemaker, finally Virginia settler and plantation household servant. In 1629 the Virginia Court began deliberating the case of Thomas/Thomasine Hall, who claimed to be both male and female and who often changed his attire to suit his gender over the course of his life.
The decision of the court was that Hall was both a man and a woman (despite lack of evidence of female genitals) and the court specified that Hall was to wear a mixture of both male and female apparel.
A full account of Thomas/Thomasine Hall story appears in the book Martin's Hundred by Ivor Noel Hume.
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