Jane Washington
(1763-1830)
BIRTH
March 14, 1763
PLACE
NAME
Jane Riley Elliott
DEATH
1830
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina
FAMILY
HUSBAND
William Washington
(1752-1810)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Jane Riley Elliott Washington (1763–1830) was a South Carolina heiress who married cavalry commander William Washington in April 1782. Tradition credits her with fashioning his regiment’s crimson standard from damask fabric; it became known as the Eutaw Flag. The couple settled at her Sandy Hill plantation and acquired a Charleston house. After his death she entrusted the flag to the Washington Light Infantry, which preserved the Revolutionary relic.
EARLY LIFE
Jane Reily Elliott Washington was born on Mar 14, 1763. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Jane Reily Elliott Washington is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Jane Reily Elliott Washington died on Dec 14, 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Jane Reily Elliott Washington died in 1830, in Charleston, South Carolina. Jane Riley Elliott Washington was a South Carolina heiress who married cavalry commander William Washington in April 1782. Tradition credits her with fashioning his regiment’s crimson standard from damask fabric; it became known as the Eutaw Flag. The couple settled at her Sandy Hill plantation and acquired a Charleston house. After his death she entrusted the flag to the Washington Light Infantry, which preserved the Revolutionary relic. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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