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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's great-grandson, Lawrence Washington (1602–1652), was a rector. [10] His brother Sir William Washington married the half-sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. [1] [14] The Washington family supported the Royalists during the English Civil War and were dispossessed of their lands following their defeat. [13]
Max Oliver Goldblatt (born January 29, 1983, in Los Angeles) is an American actor, writer and director. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005. [ 1 ] He is the son of American Cinema Editor Mark Goldblatt .
As the Washington family's eldest son, Lawrence received the benefits of primogeniture.Upon his father's death when Lawrence was 18 years old, he inherited two substantial estates on the Potomac River: Mattox Creek (1,850 acres) and Little Hunting Creek (2,500 acres) [7] (which would eventually be renamed Mount Vernon by Lawrence's grandson and namesake, Lawrence Washington).
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 .
George W. Washington (1809–1876) was the son of Edward Washington, a descendant of George Washington's great-great-grandfather Reverend Lawrence Washington, and was born near Pohick Church in Fairfax County, Virginia. [4] [5] [6] He was well-educated and highly respected. [4] He married Sarah (Sally) A. Wright (1811–1886) on February 19, 1830.
He was 19 years old at the time and traveling with his half-brother, Lawrence Washington, who was suffering from tuberculosis. [1] George Washington contracted [small pox] during his stay, and was nursed back to health at the house. [1] Barbados apparently was the only country outside the present United States that George Washington ever ...
Mabton is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,959 at the 2020 census. [5] Incorporated during the first few years of the 20th century, it is located at the eastern edge of the Yakama Indian Reservation.