Alexander Morson (1759–1822)
Around 1813 Morson bought "Laurel Grove" from Bushrod Washington.
Alexander Morson, son of a well-off merchant, was born on 11 December 1759 in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. A plantation owner and slaveholder, he resided at Hollywood, located approximately nine miles east of Falmouth. Morson, who served as a Stafford County magistrate and sheriff, had ten children with wife Anne Casson Alexander (b. 1781, m. 1800).
Emily Woolsey Dix, Reminiscences of the Knox and Soutter Families of Virginia (New York: De Vinne Press, 1895), 98.
Julia Maria Heflin, "Works Progress Administration of Virginia Historical Inventory: Hollywood" (1937), Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 30 January 1910, page 43, column 6 (Newspapers.com).
Alexander Morson I in Hamiton-Devall-Milam Extended Family Tree (Ancestry.com).
Alexander Morson in 1820 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com).
Alexander Morson (1759–1822) at Discover Stafford: The County that Built the Nation.
Alexander Morson at FamilySearch.