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Thoroughgood appears to have had the foresight to realize earlier than many other leaders that [[Lower Norfolk County]] (which encompassed the modern cities of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach) was too large for a single site for convenient worship and court affairs. He led the effort to establish a second parish church (now known as [[Old Donation Episcopal Church]]), a court, and a glebe house at what was then known as Churches Point on the Lynnhaven River in the eastern portion of the county, which was later subdivided to form [[Princess Anne County, Virginia|Princess Anne County]] in 1691. The present [[City of Virginia Beach]] was incorporated in 1963.
Thoroughgood suddenly became ill and died at
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