Col. John Dandridge of Chestnut Grove was a colonel, planter, politician, and Clerk of New Kent County, Virginia from 1730 to 1756. The available biographical record identifies John Dandridge Jr with work or public activity as a planter, statesman. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them. Dandridge died on 31 August 1756 at the age of 56 while visiting his niece and her husband, Alexander Spottswood, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dandridge is interred at St. George's Episcopal Church burial ground in Fredericksburg. Chestnut Grove burned down in 1926, but its former site was only four miles from the location of the current county courthouse for New Kent. 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.