Weedon, George (1734–1793)
Weedon and Bushrod Washington both served in the Southern Department during the Revolutionary War.
George Weedon was born in late 1734 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. After serving in the French and Indian War, he wed Catherine Gordon (m. 1764, d. 1797) and managed a Fredericksburg tavern. During the Revolutionary War, Weedon fought with George Washington at the Battle of Trenton, served as acting adjutant general of the Continental Army, and rose to the rank of brigadier general before resigning his commission in 1783.
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Samuel K. Fore, "George Weedon," Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington (George Washington's Mount Vernon).
Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, (New York: University Publishing Company, 1870), 461.
George Weedon Military Correspondence, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Kristopher D. White, "Fredericksburg, Virginia's Sentry Box," Emerging Civil War.
BG George Weedon at Find a Grave.