Thomas made his permanent home site on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge, to which he and his young brother Edward had moved the family. Except for his current service on the frontier during Dunmore's War, he was to see little more of Indian Skirmishes. Now about 32, he and his wife Jane were acquiring a large family after 10 years of marriage.
-Roots in Virginia : an account of Captain Thomas Hale, Virginia frontiersman