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who was born in Stafford County and became a military hero in the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War. During the American Revolutionary War, this William Washington served as captain in the Westmoreland County militia, protecting the county from offshore British
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In 1802, William Washington offered the Wakefield property for sale, advertising it as about 6000 acres cultivated as four farms and "peculiarly adapted to the production of Indian corn, wheat and barley." Although the property did not sell until more than a decade after Washington's death, in 1804,
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Although then a child, William Washington inherited Wakefield plantation when his father died in 1762 (subject to his mother's right to live there until her death, which happened in 1774). However, the house burned to the ground on Christmas day, 1779. Washington moved his family about a mile inland
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Washington married three times. His first wife was his cousin Jane Washington (1759-1791), whom he married in 1777. Their children included Hannah Bushrod Washington (1778-1797), Augustine Washington (1780-1798), Ann Aylett Washington Robinson (1783-1800), Bushrod Washington II (1785-1831, <The
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remains both standing and owned by Washington family members. Washington's daughter by his third wife, Sarah Tayloe Washington, who married her cousin Lawrence Washington, inherited it after her father's death. Although that house deteriorated during the 20th century, it was restored by Lawrence
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In 1783, William Augustine Washington reputedly used bricks from the burnt structure to build a house and brick barn at his nearby Haywood plantation, a 400 acre estate also overlooking the Potomac River. (The barn, also built with recycled Wakefield bricks and noted as historic in 1934 remains
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and thus the second cousin of Governor Henry Lee, but no children survived. His third marriage, on May 11, 1799 at "Mansfield" in Spotsylvania County was to Sarah Tayloe (1765-1834), who survived him. Their daughter Sarah Tayloe Washington (1800-1886) would be the only one of this Washington's
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forces but seeing little military action. A firearms accident in 1778 may have also limited his military service, although a decade later he was promoted to Colonel of the Westmoreland County militia and Washington also served at the Westmoreland County sheriff from 1784-1786.
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William Washington was a nephew of George Washington and inherited his choice of the General's swords, and also was the first listed of seven executors named in the late President's will, although the active executors were his cousins Bushrod Washington (son of
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in Westmoreland County, the family included three daughters who reached adulthood: Elizabeth Washington Spotswood (wife of Gen. Alexander Spotswood), Jane Washington Thornton (wife of Col.
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plantation) and the late President's former secretary (and husband of his step-daughter Nellie Park Custis), Lawrence Lewis. The other executors were
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children to survive the American Civil War. She married her 4th cousin Lawrence Washington (1791-1875), although their son died as a child in 1803.
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Washington moved to "Rock Hill" in the Dumbarton Heights neighborhood of Georgetown neighborhood in the District of Columbia.
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Washingtons A Family History, by Justin Glenn. Vol 1, page 170 - person +249)>, Corbin Aylett Washington (1787-1788) and
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chose not to run for re-election. Washington served part-time alongside veteran Richard Lee and was replaced by his cousin
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Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p. 170
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Eugene E. Prussing, The Estate of George Washington, Deceased, (Boston: Little Brown, and Company 1927) p. 68
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The Smithsonian biographical note appears to confuse this man with the military hero William Washington.
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Westmoreland County voters elected William Augustine Washington as one of their representatives in the
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Washington Latane, Jr. and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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The Washingtons: A Family History; Vol.1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch
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Washington died at his Rock Hill home in the District of Columbia on October 2, 1810.
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years earlier had been born at Wakefield before his father moved his family to
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today). He also used some of those bricks to enlarge the Blenheim residence.
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another house on the inherited estate. He reputedly owned 69 slaves in 1782.
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Although the Haywood house that this Washington rebuilt also burned down,
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was one of the witnesses to his will. His remains were interred at
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William Augustine Washington, head-and-shoulders black and white portrait, right profile
Virginia House of Delegates
Westmoreland County
Bushrod Washington
Henry Lee III
Westmoreland, Westmoreland County
Colony of Virginia
Georgetown, District of Columbia
Mount Vernon
Virginia
George Washington
George Corbin Washington
Augustine Washington Jr.
Planter
American Revolutionary War
Virginia House of Delegates
Westmoreland County
District of Columbia
George Washington
Augustine Washington Jr.
Wakefield plantation
John Thornton
Burdet Ashton
George Washington
Ferry Farm
Stafford County, Virginia
William Washington
Blenheim
Virginia House of Delegates
Bushrod Washington

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