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Andrew Parks (17731836)

Role

Andrew Parks's wife was a cousin of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Andrew Parks was born on 10 August 1773 in Malden, Kanawha County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia). A merchant by trade, he worked in Fredericksburg and Baltimore. In 1796 he married Harriot (Harriet) Washington (17761822), a niece of George Washington. Parks and Washington had eight children, seven of whom lived to maturity. In 1818 Parks returned to Kanawha County, where he was justice of the peace.

Citations

"To James Madison from Andrew Parks, 22 January 1824," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0219. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, pp. 203–204.]

Albert Welles, The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family (New York: Society Library, 1879), 21214.

Zac Cunningham, "Harriot’s Happily Ever After," Lives & Legacies Blog.

Col Samuel Washington at Find a Grave.

Harriot Washington Parks at Find a Grave.

Samuel Walter Washington at FamilySearch.

Andrew Addis Park at FamilySearch.