Lawrence Washington (1659 - abt. 1698)

Born 1 Sep 1659 in Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mildred (Warner) Washington — married about 1688 in Warner Hall, Gloucester, Virginia

Descendants

Died about Mar 1698 at about age 38 in Warner Hall, Gloucester, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Lawrence Washington was a Virginia colonist.

Lawrence Washington is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Lawrence Washington is Notable.

He was born on 01 Sep 1659 at the Mattox Creek Estate, which later would be enjoined with Little Hunting Creek Estate to still later become Mount Vernon.

His parents were Anne (Pope) and John Washington. His namesake grandfather.

John Washington had a brother, also Lawrence Washington, who emigrated to Virginia with him and also died in 1677, as well as an earlier wife and two children, who all died shortly after arriving in Virginia. ^[1]

At age 18 he inherited Maddox Creek and Little Hunting Creek, a total 4350 acres, from his father through primogeniture.

Being of the gentry of Colonial Virginia, he received private tutoring.

He trained as a lawyer in England - probably at Brasenose College, Oxford, where there were family connections.

As a landowner, his career included county service as one of the justices of the peace in 1680, and in 1684, colonel of the county militia, served two years as the county Sheriff, continued his father's role as the county coroner, and took special interest in guardianships and estates, serving as trustee of the estate of Thomas Pope, the orphan Jan Hay, and Daniel Lisson's daughter born after his death.

As an adult, his interests lay more in law and politics then in plantations. He served for nearly a decade in the House of Burgesses, for Westmoreland County, Virginia from 1684 to 1686 and 1691-1692. The 1688 session was suppressed.

Lawrence Washington married about 1688 in Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia to Mildred Warner.

• Capt. Lawrence / Laurence Augustus Washington was a lawyer and planter in colonial Virginia who was educated in England. He was the paternal grandfather of George Washington

He died @38 in March 1698 in Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia and was buried on family land at Bridges Creek. ^[2]

His wife and three children were left with enough personal property to support them, including 406 pounds sterling and 32,509 pounds of tobacco.

His widow, Mildred, remarried to George Gale and the family returned to England, where she died three years later. Her will left guardianship of the children to Gale. After petitioning, Lawrence's cousin John Washington gained custody and the children were returned to Virginia.

He was the grandfather of the first American President, George Washington.

Sources

• Alabama, Surname Files Expanded, 1702-1981 [1]
• Burke's Family Records (Indexed) [2]
• Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [3]
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [4]
• U.S. and Internatiional Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [5]
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current [6]
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [7]
• Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [8]
• Web:Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 [9]

1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography v5 p692-693 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #21512 for Lawrence Washington

• Wikipedia: Lawrence Washington

• Ancestry at Mt.Vernon.org

• Sons of the American Revolution. A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution 1889-1970: SAR Membership #86214

• McIlwaine, H. R. and J. P. Kennedy, editors. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 13 Volumes. Richmond, Virginia 1905-1915 v1-9

• https://archive.org/details/journalsofhouseo16591693virg/page/n13/mode/2up v2 pages xi, xii, xiv

• Waters, Henry. Genealogical Gleanings in England, New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, MA 1889) v43; p81-3

• Walter Biscoe Norris Jr., Westmoreland County Virginia: 1653-1983 (Montross: Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors 1983) p150-151