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Nicholas Muse (c. 17351804)

Role

Muse was an acquaintance of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Nicholas Muse was born circa 1735 in Virginia. A planter and slaveholder, he owned property in Washington Parish, along the shore of the Potomac River in Westmoreland County. Muse had four sons with an unknown wife (or wives) before marrying Anne Thompson in 1791. He died in 1804 in Westmoreland County. 

Citations

Mary Hope West and Juliet Fauntleroy, "The Muse (Mewes) Family of the Northern Neck of Virginia (Concluded)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 53, Number 4 (October 1945), 312–23.

Nicholas Muse in Jfrank44#1 Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

Nicholas Muse in Virginia, U.S., Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, U.S., 1649–1800 (Ancestry.com).

Nicholas Muse at FamilySearch.