Thomas, born c1724, was the only child of Benoni and Ann, his mother having died when he was about three years old. Like his father, Thomas served in the military, attaining the rank of Captain. In 1750 he married Frances Elizabeth Cox and they had eight children, the second being John. On July 4, 1781, the North Carolina Board of Auditors for the District of Salisbury gave Thomas who was nearing sixty years of age, fourteen pounds, three shillings and six pence for militia service in the Revolutionary War. 
Later that year, the same board awarded Thomas three thousand three hundred pounds "foe sundry Publick Claims which he is to receive agreeable to an Act of Assembly passed at Halifax, January 1781." Three years later, on September 13, 1794, Captain Thomas Loftin passed away, leaving the following will :


In the name of God Amen this eight day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, know all men by these presents and I Thomas Loftin of state and county aforesaid being very weak and sick in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to Almighty God for the same calling to mind the Mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, I make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it, and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian burial at the direction of my executors, nothing doubting but I shall receive the same at the resurrection by the mighty power of God.
Item I give to my daughter Betha Lambeth, one feather bed and furniture which she has received. Item I give to my son John Loftin one feather bed and furniture which he has received. Item I give to my son Longfield Loftin one hundred fifty acres of land which he has received. Item I give to my son Joseph Loftin one hundred acres of land which he has received. Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth Lambeth one feather bed and furniture which she has received. Item I give to my daughter Sarah Pryor one feather bed and furniture which she has received. I give to my daughter Mary West one bed and furniture which she has received. Item I give to my daughter Francis Loftin one feather bed and furniture and residue of my cattle and all the rest of my estate except twenty five pound, it being the last payment in the bond which my son Longfield has given to me. Item I give to my daughter Mary West twenty pound of the bond which my son Longfield has given me to be left in the hands of my executors at their discretion for her maintenance. I order wife Francis Loftin and my son Joseph Loftin executors of this my last will and testament and I do utterly disannul and disallow all other wills. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed my seal this tear and date above written.

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