George Washington collection [Mount Vernon], 1654-1799
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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800
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Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 – January 20, 1800) was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in a variety of roles during and after the American Revolution, several of which qualify him to be counted among the Founding Fathers. He was the first governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1790 to 1799; he was also the last president of Pennsylvania, succeeding Benjamin Franklin and serving from 1788 until 1790. Born in Philadelphia, Mifflin becam...
Custis, Daniel Parke, 1711-1757
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Daniel Parke Custis was an American planter and politician who was the first husband of Martha Dandridge. After his death, Dandridge married George Washington, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the nation's first president....
Gray, Davy, approximately 1743-
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Davy Gray was about sixteen years old when he first came to Mount Vernon in 1759 as part of Martha Washington’s dower share of enslaved workers from the Custis estate. It is unknown whether anyone in his family accompanied him. The young man became a field-worker on several of Washington’s farms. As early as 1778 he was supervising other enslaved workers. By 1799 then-fifty-six-year-old Gray was overseer at Muddy Hole Farm, where he lived with his wife, Molly. At various times, Washington also a...
Will, active 1785-1799 (Muddy Hole Farm)
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Will was an enslaved man, owned by Martha Washington as part of her first husband's Estate, and lived at Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. He was the son of old Doll at the Mansion House Farm and the uncle of Tom Davis at the Mansion House Farm (see George Washington Diaries, December 19, 1785, and Letter, George Washington to Anthony Whitting, February 3, 1793). He served as overseer at both Muddy Hole and Dogue Run Farm, and was married to Kate who lived and worked at Muddy Hole Farm. Will ...
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...
Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
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George Washington Parke Custis was the son of John Parke Custis who was the stepson of George Washington. Custis' mother was Eleanor Calvert. He grew up at Mount Vernon in Virginia after the death of his father. He married Mary Lee Fitzhugh and lived at "Arlington." His daughter Mary Anna Randolph Custis married Robert E. Lee. George Washington Parke Custis was a playwright and agricultural reformer....
Stuart, David, 1753-1814
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David Stuart (August 3, 1753 – October 1814) was a Virginia physician, politician, and correspondent of George Washington. When Washington became President of the United States, he made Stuart one of three commissioners appointed to design a new United States capital city. After studying medicine in Europe he returned to the United States in 1778 and established a medical practice in Alexandria, Virginia, and mostly lived and farmed outside the city in Fairfax County; he used enslaved labor on h...
Virginia. General Assembly
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Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia</a>. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party (Va.)">http://scrc...
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...
Willard, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1822-1909
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Civic leader in Washington, D.C. and founder of the Willard Hotel. From the description of Collection : of papers relating to George Washington, 1711-1844. (Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union). WorldCat record id: 30821032 Capitalist and hotel owner, of Washington, D.C.; summered in Nantucket, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1881-1924. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 70948706 ...
