Lawrence Washington
BIRTH
1718
Westmoreland County, Virginia
DEATH
July 26, 1752
Fairfax County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
MOTHER:
Jane Butler Washington
(1699-1729)
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Washington, Lawrence
(1718-1752)
Lawrence Washington was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonialVirginia. As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County, he also founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749.
BIRTHPLACE:
MUSEUM
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
1732 Popes Creek Rd, Colonial Beach, VA 22443
HOMES:
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121
GRAVE:
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121
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SISTER
Mildred Washington
BROTHER
George Washington
(1732-1799)
BROTHER
John Augustine Washington
(1736-1787)
BROTHER
Augustine Washington Jr.
(1720-1762)
SISTER
Betty Washington Lewis
(1733-1797)
BROTHER
Charles Washington
(1738-1799)
SISTER
Jane Washington
(1721-1734)
BROTHER
Samuel Washington
(1734-1781)
WIFE
Anne Fairfax Washington Lee
(1728-1761)
WIFE
Anne Fairfax
(?-1665)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM | ||
Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Virginia Capitol Building | E Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Ferry Farm | 268 Kings Highway, Fredericksburg, VA | MUSEUM | ||
George Washington's Bathtub | 127 Fairfax St, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 | MARKER |
DIED:
Fairfax County, Virginia
Jul 26, 1752
The exact date and place of Lawrence Washington’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Lawrence Washington with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Lawrence Washington died on Jul 26, 1752 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.