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Lawrence Washington (1718–1752)

Role

Lawrence Washington was an uncle of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Lawrence Washington, elder half-brother of George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Following education in England, he served in the War of Jenkins' Ear as a captain in the Virginia Foot Regiments under Admiral Edmund Vernon. He then returned to Virginia to oversee Little Hunting Creek, the Fairfax estate that he would inherit after the death of his father in 1743. That same year Washington married Anne Fairfax (1728–1761).

Citations

"From George Washington to Lawrence Washington, 5 May 1749," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-01-02-0003. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 1, 7 July 1748 – 14 August 1755, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, pp. 6–8.]

"Edward Vernon." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 34, Gale, 2014. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631010193/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=48dd9efb. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.

Alicia K. Anderson and Lynn A. Price, eds., George Washington’s Barbados Diary 175152 (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2018).

Justin Glenn, The Washingtons, A Family History: Volume 1, Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Publishing, 2014).

Kiera E. Nolan, "Lawrence Washington," Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington (George Washington's Mount Vernon).

CPT Lawrence Washington at Find a Grave.

Lawrence Augustus Washington at FamilySearch.