John Fitzgerald (d. 1799)
John Fitzgerald was a friend of George Washington.
John Fitzgerald, a native of Ireland, immigrated to America in 1769. He settled in Alexandria, Virginia, where he became a partner in a mercantile business and a friend of George Washington. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a Continental Army officer and an aide-de-camp to Washington, earning his commander’s praise as "an Officer of unexceptionable merit." Wounded at the Battle of Monmouth, Fitzgerald left the army and in 1779 married Jane (Jenny) Digges (c.
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"[Diary entry: 26 April 1773]," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0003-0008-0…. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 174.]
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James McHenry to Elias Boudinotte, 2 July 1778, Thomas Addis Emmet Collection, Archives and Manuscripts, The New York Public Library, New York City.
George Washington Greene, The Life of Nathanael Greene: Major-General in the Army of the Revolution (New York: G.P. Putnam and Son, 1867), 509–10.
John Fitzgerald at Find a Grave.