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Lawrence Washington (1718 – July 26, 1752) was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia.As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County, Virginia, he founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749.
Bust of George Washington at the Sulgrave Manor. Sulgrave Manor was completed in 1560 and remained in the Washington family until 1610. [10] Lawrence Washington's great-grandson, Lawrence Washington (1602–1652), was a rector. [10] His brother Sir William Washington married the half-sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] ... Among his siblings, he was particularly close to his older half-brother Lawrence. [7]
Lawrence Washington (1718–1752), George Washington's half-brother and mentor Lawrence Augustine Washington (1774–1824), nephew of George Washington Lawrence Berry Washington (1811–1856), great-grandnephew of George Washington
Charles Washington (May 2, 1738 – September 16, 1799) was an American planter and politician who founded a town in the Shenandoah Valley that was named Charles Town in his honor shortly after his death and that of his eldest brother, George Washington.
By his father's will, John Augustine Washington inherited 700 acres (2.8 km 2) at the "head of Maddox" (Mattox Creek is a navigable tributary of the Potomac River) in Westmoreland County, which had been the first land the Washington family had owned in Virginia [5] and on Bridges Creek (that become the George Washington Birthplace National Monument long after his death).
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
According to the will of his father, Augustine Washington Sr., the land now known as Mount Vernon first was willed to this man's elder brother Lawrence Washington.However, the will instructed that in the case Lawrence should die without an heir the property would go to Augustine Jr., provided that he gave the Popes Creek property, known as "Wakefield", to George Washington.