Washington Family Collection 1582-1965 (bulk 1700-1900)

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Washington family

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Prominent Virginia families of Stafford and Spotsylvania counties. Augustine Washington (1694–1743) was a Virginia planter and the father of George Washington. He had a total of ten children by two wives. His son Augustine II (1720-1762) had four children but only one son, William Augustine (1759-1810). William Augustine had nine children, among them his eldest son Augustine (1780-1798); his sixth child, George Corbin Washington (1789-1854), was a Congressman from Maryl...

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802

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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the first First Lady of the United States. Washington is not only remembered as the nation’s first lady who set an example for her future first ladies, but also as a wife, mother, and property owner. She is an example of strength during the Revolutionary War, and as the first lady of a new nation. Born at Virginia’s Chestnut Grove Plantation located in New Kent County, Virginia on June 2, 1731, she was the eldest of eight children born to John and France...

Washington, Lund, 1737-1796

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Lund Washington (1737-1796) was a distant cousin of George Washington. He was born at Chotank, Virginia (then Stafford County, now King George County), the son of Townshend and Elizabeth Lund Washington. During the years of the Revolution, Lund lived at and managed Mount Vernon. His letters to the General convey much information about the running of the estate during the war. He married Elizabeth Foote in 1779. After the war George Washington sold 360 acres of the western section of Mount Vernon...

Washington, Elizabeth Foote, -1812

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Elizabeth Foote (also known as Betsy) was born sometime in the 1740's. She married Lund Washington, George Washington’s cousin, in 1779, and lived at Hayfield Plantation in Virginia. She died in 1812....

Ball, Burgess, 1749-1800

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Washington, George Corbin, 1789-1854

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Washington and Mason were U.S. representatives from Maryland. From the description of George Corbin Washington and John Thomson Mason report, 1845 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982775 Virginia Congressman, planter, great-nephew of George Washington. From the description of ALS : Georgetown, to Robert Beverley, 1826 Feb. 16. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122489373 ...

Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...