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The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.
Lawrence Washington (1718 – July 26, 1752) was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia.As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County, Virginia, he founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749.
Lawrence Washington (1602 – 21 January 1652) [1] [2] was a High Church rector of the Church of England. He was an early ancestor to the Washington family of Virginia , being the paternal great-great-grandfather of U.S. President George Washington .
Lawrence was born in September 1659, on his father's estate at Mattox Creek and when he was five years old, the family moved to a nearby plantation on Bridges Creek, in Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia. [4] He was named to honor his paternal grandfather, former Oxford don and High Church Anglican Rector Rev. Lawrence Washington.
According to the will of his father, Augustine Washington Sr., the land now known as Mount Vernon first was willed to this man's elder brother Lawrence Washington.However, the will instructed that in the case Lawrence should die without an heir the property would go to Augustine Jr., provided that he gave the Popes Creek property, known as "Wakefield", to George Washington.
Her will placed care of the Washington children in the hands of George, [4] although this was later challenged in the Virginia courts by Lawrence's cousin John Washington, and their custody passed to him. Her will left most of the property she had inherited from her late husband to George Gale. John Washington challenged this in court also. [5]
Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...
Lawrence Augustine Washington (1774–1824), nephew of George Washington Lawrence Berry Washington (1811–1856), great-grandnephew of George Washington Lawrence C. Washington (born 1951), American mathematician