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He was 19 years old at the time and traveling with his half-brother, Lawrence Washington, who was suffering from tuberculosis. [1] George Washington contracted [small pox] during his stay, and was nursed back to health at the house. [1] Barbados apparently was the only country outside the present United States that George Washington ever ...
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.
George Steptoe Washington was born August 17, 1771, at Harewood, his father's plantation in Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County in West Virginia).He was the fourth of seven children (but the eldest surviving son) born to Samuel Washington and his fourth wife, Anne Steptoe, and like his father, would ultimately die young of tuberculosis.
In 1751, Washington left mainland North America for the first and only time, when he accompanied Lawrence to Barbados, hoping the climate would cure his brother's tuberculosis. [14] Washington contracted smallpox during that trip, which left his face slightly scarred. [15]
Lawrence Augustine Washington (1775–1824), who married Mary Dorcas Wood. [14] Harriot Washington (1776–1822), [15] who married Andrew Parks of Fredericksburg. [10] His fifth and final marriage was in 1778 to another widow, Susannah Perrin Holden (1753–1783). [16] Together, Susannah and Samuel were the parents of: [10]
He got tuberculosis exacerbated by the dank conditions in his cell Albert Mountain Horse (1893–1915), Kainai Canadian soldier Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896), Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in Washington has obtained multiple court orders requiring a Tacoma resident to get treatment for her active tuberculosis, officials told NBC News on Friday.
Lawrence Washington (1602–1653), great-great-grandfather of George Washington; Lawrence Washington (1659–1698), grandfather of George Washington; 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 ...