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Bushfield, also known as Bushfield Manor, is a historic 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Flemish bond, 18th century brick Colonial Revival mansion located in Mount Holly, Westmoreland County, Virginia. [3] Bushfield is the former homestead of John Augustine Washington, younger brother to George Washington, and his wife, Hannah Bushrod Washington. The ...
Slave cabin, Mount Vernon. Sarah Johnson was born on September 29, 1844, to Hannah Parker, an enslaved teenager who was owned by Jane Charlotte Washington, but sent to Mount Vernon, which was managed by her son Augustine Washington, who would ultimately sell the property to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in Sarah's lifetime [11] [12] Augustine Washington, who paid for the black midwife ...
Christopher Sheels [8] (born c. 1774, [9] Mount Vernon, Virginia – year and place of death unknown), was an enslaved house servant at George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon. As a teenager, he worked as Washington's "body servant" in the presidential households in New York City , 1789–90, and Philadelphia, 1790–91.
Pages in category "People from Charlotte County, Virginia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Bushrod Washington was born on June 5, 1762, at Bushfield Manor, a plantation located at Mount Holly in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [2] [3] He was a son of John Augustine Washington (1736–1787), the brother of George Washington, and John's heiress wife, Hannah Bushrod (1735–1801).
Bushrod and his slightly older brother John married sisters, both daughters of Col. Thomas Blackburn, who had served as an aide-de-camp to General Washington (before his presidency) and whose plantation in Prince William County on the King's Highway between their Westmoreland County lands and Mount Vernon was named Rippon Lodge. Specifically ...
A Mount Vernon resident was convicted Friday of defrauding a COVID pandemic relief program and mid-Atlantic restaurant workers. ... Virginia found Derickson Lawrence, 67, guilty of wire fraud and ...
New Kent County was established in 1654 from York County, Virginia. Kent County, England: 26,134: 210 sq mi (544 km 2) Northampton County: 131: Eastville: 1634: Original county of the Colony under England, initially named Accomac Shire. In 1642, it was renamed Northampton County. However, in 1663, Northampton County was divided into two counties.