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Augustine Washington, Sr. (12 November 1694 – 12 April 1743) played a pivotal role in the history of colonial Virginia and is best known as the father of George Washington, the first President of the United States. He belonged to the esteemed Virginia landed gentry and had a multifaceted life as a planter, slaveholder, iron ore miner, and ...
But the history of Mount Vernon spans five centuries, from the seventeenth century to the modern-day. In 1674, George Washington’s great-grandfather, John Washington, secured a land grant along the Potomac River The land was passed down the Washington line until it came into the possession of Augustine Washington, George Washington’s father.
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States.Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the inaugural first lady of the United States, defining the role of the president's wife and setting many precedents that future first ladies would observe.
9 de mar. de 2002 · To John Augustine Washington. Middlebrook June [c.1] 1 1777. Dear Brother. I think I stand Debter to you for your Letters of the 22d of April and 11th of May, 2 which are all that have come to hand since my last to you from Morristown. I am now Assembling the Troops of this State, and those Southward of it, at this place which lays about Seven ...
Augustine Washington Jr. se casó con Anne Aylett en "Nominy Plantation". Era hija y coheredera de William Aylett del condado de Westmoreland, Virginia. La pareja tuvo cuatro hijos, de los cuales William Augustine Washington seguiría los pasos de su padre como plantador y durante 1788 representó al condado de Westmoreland en la Cámara de Delegados de Virginia.
EARLY LIFE. George Washington's father, Augustine Washington, was born at Mattox Creek, Westmoreland County, Va., in 1694. He remembered little of his father, as Lawrence Washington died when Augustine was only 4 years old. Two years later his mother married George Gale, and during the autumn of 1700, the family moved to England.
His health continued to steadily deteriorate, prompting President Washington to comment that his nephew was “a shadow of what he was” during a visit to Mount Vernon in September of 1792. 14 After months of suffering, George Augustine Washington died on February 5, 1793, at Eltham, the estate of his late father-in-law in New Kent County ...
