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Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh (17331786)

Role

Fitzhugh was an acquaintance of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh was born in June 1733 in Stafford County, Virginia. A graduate of The College of William and Mary, he worked as a merchant in Fredericksburg. He was also a slaveowner in Westmoreland County. Fitzhugh married three times: to Catherine Hore (died c. 1771), Alice Riden (m. 1771), and Susannah Potter (m. 1772). He had one child with each wife. Fitzhugh died in Westmoreland County on 28 March 1786.  

Citations

"The Fitzhugh Family (Continued)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 8, Number 1 (July 1900), 9195.

Fitzhugh, An American Family.

A Catalogue of the College of William & Mary in Virginia (1859), 39.

"From George Washington to Daniel Fitzhugh, 21 April 1756," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0027. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 28.]

Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh at FamilySearch.