| Name |
George Washington [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] |
| Born |
11 Feb 1731/32 |
Pope's Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Land Acquisition |
Oct 1750 |
Jefferson County, West Virginia [2] |
| 453 acres along the lower fork of the Bullskin by purchase from Thomas Rutherford (Northern Neck Grants, Book G, P. 465) |
| Land Acquisition |
4 Dec 1750 |
Jefferson County, West Virginia [2] |
| by purchase 456 acres adjacent to the 93 acres from James McCraken |
- (Ibid, P. 27 and Frederick County Deed Book 2, 1749-1752, PP. 209-11). This, was the site of "Rock Hall."
General Washington had an overseer at Rock Hall named Christopher Hardwick. He wrote regularly to Hardwick and visited in April, 1755 prior to joining Gen. Braddock's disastrous expedition to Fort Duquesne. He visited later in March, 1769; October, 1770; and in March, 1774 – a period when his brothers John Augustine and Samuel were establishing plantations and, in Samuel's case, a residence. He kept the lands until his death, with his brother Charles erratically collecting rents from tenant farmers. An extremely astute and innovative farmer who eventually owned some 50,000 acres in several states, Washington made carefully worded agreements, that encouraged long and fruitful tenancies through a combination of easy-to-meet rents but strictly required improvements. Each tenant usually was required, at the risk of his lease, not to own and farm adjacent acreage; but he usually had to build on Washington's lands a forty-foot barn, maintain a woodlot, maintain fences, build a twenty-foot house with stone chimney, plant an orchard or vineyard, and rotate crops.
Bushrod Washington, as one the executors of Gen. Washington's estate, sold Rock Hall. An interesting footnote to history, the Lees of Virginia (Thomas Lee's descendants) defaulted on payments to Washington's estate on Rock Hall, with a court a deciding on its resale to Lawrence Lewis for the amount of $17,115. He owned it until 1819. Washington family members owned the land again, after 1869, when its owner, Nathaniel Hite Willis, married Jane Charlotte Washington, daughter of the last family member to own Mt. Vernon. The main house was destroyed in a fire in 1906. The land was bought October, 1912 by John L. Burns.
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| Land Acquisition |
Mar 1752 [2] |
| by grant from the Northern Neck proprietary 760 acres on the Bullskin |
- (Northern Neck Book Grants, Book H, P. 136). Final total GW acres = 2314.
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| Land Acquisition |
17 Mar 1751/52 |
Jefferson County, West Virginia [2] |
| 522 acres by purchase from George Johnston, located on the Bullskin |
- (Frederick County Deed Book 2, PP. 478-481). Total GW acres = 1554.
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| Political |
1789-1797 [3] |
| President of The United States |
He was elected without opponent by 69 electora votes. He served two terms, refusing to run for a third term, and thereby unofficially instituted the 2 term rule for American presidents, the only exception being Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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| Died |
14 Dec 1799 |
Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia [3] |
| Person ID |
I13328 |
If the Legends Are True... |
| Last Modified |
17 Nov 2015 |
| Father |
Augustine Washington, b. 1693-1694, 'Bridge's Creek', Westmoreland County, Virginia , d. 12 Apr 1743, Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia (Age 49 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Ball, b. 1708-1709, 'Epping Forest', Lively, Lancaster County, Virginia , d. 25 Aug 1789, Fredericksburg City, Virginia (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
6 Mar 1730/31 |
'Epping Forest', Lively, Lancaster County, Virginia |
| Family ID |
F4935 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1732 - 1799 (67 years)
