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Augustine Washington Sr. (1694 [a] – April 12, 1743) [1] [2] was a Virginian planter and merchant. Born in Westmoreland, Virginia , he was the father of ten children, among them the first president of the United States , George Washington , soldier and politician Lawrence Washington , and politician Charles Washington .
Parent(s) Augustine Washington Mary Ball Washington: Family: Washington family: Samuel Washington (November 16, 1734 – September 26, 1781) was an American planter ...
The Washington family owned land (on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia) since the time of Augustine's grandfather John Washington in 1674. Around 1734, Augustine brought his second wife Mary and children to the plantation called Little Hunting Creek when George was about two years old. Augustine began on an expansion of ...
Warner married Lawrence Washington (also spelled Laurence Washington) in 1685, a union that produced three children: John Washington, III (1692–1746), Augustine (1694–1743), and Mildred (1698–1747). Augustine would become the father of George Washington. [3]
Mary Ball Washington House, 1200 Charles Street, Fredericksburg, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1927.The house was originally built in 1761 and has later additions. Mary Ball was born sometime between 1707 and 1709 at either Epping Forest, her family's plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, [1] or at a plantation near the village of Simonson, Virginia. [2]
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
A 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents and three siblings at their Washington state home shot them and then called police to falsely claim that his brother committed the slayings ...