Mary Blair Braxton Burwell Prescott (1734–1799)
Mary Blair Braxton Burwell Prescott was a correspondent of Bushrod Washington.
Mary Blair, the younger sister of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Blair Jr., was born on 27 September 1734 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her first husband was Col. George Braxton, whose brother Carter was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Blair and Braxton had four daughters (only one of whom reached maturity) before Braxton’s death in 1761. Mary then married Col. Robert Burwell in 1774, but he died three years later. In 1792 Mary wed Roger Prescott (d. 1795) and thereafter lived at Enfield, the family home in Prince William County.
Frederick Horner, The History of the Blair, Banister, and Braxton Families Before and After the Revolution (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898), 86–91.
Jane Carol Geer Koop, "Women in the Eighteenth Century: A Southern Perspective Centering on the Life of Anne Blair Banister" (Master’s Thesis, Texas Tech University, 1989), 105, 132n.
Robert M.Ireland, "Blair, John, Jr.," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Mary Blair in U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900 (Ancestry.com).
Mary Blair in U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900 (Ancestry.com).
Mary Blair in U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889–1970 (Ancestry.com).
John Wallaston, Mary Blair Braxton (portrait), Colonial Williamsburg (Encyclopedia Virginia).