Noblet Herbert Jr. (c. 1825–1852)
Noblet Herbert Jr. was a grandnephew of Bushrod Washington.
Noblet Herbert Jr., son of Noblet Herbert and Mary Lee Washington Herbert, was born circa 1825, the same year as the deaths of his father and two of his brothers. Following his mother's demise in 1827, he lived with his uncle John Augustine Washington II in present-day West Virginia. In 1849 Herbert Jr. joined the California Gold Rush via the Charles Town Mining Group, a body of about eighty young men from Jefferson County.
John A. Washington, "Noblet Herbert to Mrs. John Augustine Washington," California Historical Society Quarterly , Volume 29, Number 4 (December 1950), 297–307.
Noblet Herbert Jr. Letter to Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington, 25 January 1852, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, VA), 19 October 1852, page 2, column 3 (Newspapers.com).
Martinsburg Gazette (VA), 15 December 1852, page 2, column 1 (Newspapers.com).