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Fielding Lewis Jr. sold his inheritance in Frederick County to his half-brother John but continued to experience financial problems and was sent to debtors' prison in Winchester in 1790, with Lawrence Lewis accompanying him to the sentencing. [2] Meanwhile, Lawrence Lewis married an heiress in Essex County, Susannah Edmonton.
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.
The Washington family arrived in the Colony of Virginia in 1657, [15] when John Washington was shipwrecked. John sailed on the ship the Seahorse. [16] [17] He was a planter, soldier, and politician in colonial Virginia in North America and a lieutenant colonel in the local militia. He settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
By his father's will, John Augustine Washington inherited 700 acres (2.8 km 2) at the "head of Maddox" (Mattox Creek is a navigable tributary of the Potomac River) in Westmoreland County, which had been the first land the Washington family had owned in Virginia [5] and on Bridges Creek (that become the George Washington Birthplace National Monument long after his death).
Harriot Washington (1776–1822), [15] who married Andrew Parks of Fredericksburg. [10] His fifth and final marriage was in 1778 to another widow, Susannah Perrin Holden (1753–1783). [16] Together, Susannah and Samuel were the parents of: [10] John Perrin Washington (1781–1784), who died young. [17]
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.
Lawrence Washington (1602–1652), great-great-grandfather of George Washington; Lawrence Washington (1659–1698), grandfather of George Washington; Lawrence Washington (1718–1752), George Washington's half-brother and mentor; Lawrence Augustine Washington (1774–1824), nephew of George Washington; Lawrence Berry Washington (1811–1856 ...
Augustine Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1694, to Mildred Warner and her husband, Capt. Lawrence Washington, a militia captain and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. His paternal grandparents were Lt. Col. John Washington (c. 1631–1677) and his first wife, Anne Pope.