Capt. Lawrence WASHINGTON

1659 - 1697  (37 years)

• Name	Lawrence WASHINGTON  [1]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	1 Sep 1659	Popes Creek Landing, Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America   [1]
  Christening	20 Sep 1659	Virginia, British Colonial America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	L518-C2K
  Held public office	Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America   [2]
  	Served as sheriff of Westmoreland County, Virginia
  Held public office	1685	Virginia, British Colonial America   [2]
  	Served in House of Burgesses for the Colony/Commonwealth of Virginia
  MilitaryService	[2]
  	Captain
  Name	Lawrence Washington  [2]
  Occupation	[2]
  	High Sheriff of Virginia
  Occupation	1685  [2]
  	Member of Virginia House of Burgesses
  Will	11 Mar 1696	Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America   [2]
  Burial	1697	Latanes, Colonial Beach, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America   [1]
  Death	30 Mar 1697	Warner Hall, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America   [1]
  Person ID	I594767951	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2024

  
  

  Father	LT Colonel John WASHINGTON, Sr,   b. 1634, Purleigh, Essex, England d. Bef 26 Sep 1677, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Anne POPE,   b. 1638, St. Marys City, St. Mary's, Maryland, British Colonial America d. 26 Sep 1668, Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F536732211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mildred WARNER,   b. 24 Nov 1670, Gloucester Point, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 26 Mar 1701, Whitehaven, Cumberland, Virginia (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	1689	Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America   [3]
  Children	1. Capt. John WASHINGTON,   b. 12 Nov 1692, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States d. 1 Sep 1746, Highgate, Gloucester, Virginia, British American Colony (Age 53 years)   2. Augustine WASHINGTON,   b. 12 Nov 1694, Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 12 Apr 1743, Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 48 years)   3. Mildred Warner WASHINGTON,   b. 1 Aug 1697, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 5 Sep 1747, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F536729047	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2024

  
  

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  Biography Lawrence Washington was a Virginia colonist. Lawrence Washington is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society Notables Project 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.

  
  

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  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 3 Jan 2023), entry for Augustine Washington, person ID KNDX-MFX. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 6 Oct 2024), entry for Lawrence WASHINGTON, person ID L518-C2K. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 6 Oct 2024), entry for Mildred WARNER, person ID KNW5-2D1. (Reliability: 3).