George Braxton was a Virginia planter and merchant at Newington in King and Queen County, and brother of Declaration signer Carter Braxton. A portrait attributed to John Wollaston survives at Colonial Williamsburg, which identifies him as the third George Braxton in his family. He represented the county in the House of Burgesses in 1758–1761, on its trade and grievances committees. The available external biographical record associates George Braxton II with the following work or social roles: politician. Because neither boy had reached legal age when the two older men named George Braxton died, Speaker John Robinson (the colony's most powerful politician at the time), and their scholarly merchant neighbor Humphrey Hill served as guardians for both this boy (who inherited Newington and various lands in King and Queen and Essex County) and his brother Carter Braxton (who inherited 25,00 acres of land in Orange and Albemarle Counties to the west). The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.