Mary Willing Byrd
(1740-1814)
BIRTH
September 10, 1740
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NAME
Mary Willing
DEATH
March 1814 (exact day unknown)
PLACE
Westover Plantation, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
Charles Willing
(1710-1754)
HUSBAND
William Byrd III
(1728-1777)
CHILDREN
Maria Horsmanden Byrd Page
(1761-1844)
CHILDREN
Evelyn Taylor Byrd Harrison
(1766-1817)
CHILDREN
Charles Willing Byrd
(1770-1828)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Willing Byrd (1740–1814) managed Virginia’s Westover estate after her husband William Byrd III’s death in 1777. She sold land, enslaved people, silver and the Byrd library to pay debts while preserving Westover for her children. British occupation and American raids brought losses and accusations of trading with the enemy, though she was never tried. Her letters defended her property and sought the return of enslaved people from British forces. She died in March 1814.
EARLY LIFE
Mary Willing Byrd was born on Sep 10, 1740 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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 Mary Willing Byrd with work or public activity as a planter, hostess. 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. Mary Willing Byrd died on Mar 24, 1814 in Westover Plantation, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Willing Byrd managed Virginia’s Westover estate after her husband William Byrd III’s death in 1777. British occupation and American raids brought losses and accusations of trading with the enemy, though she was never tried. Mary Willing Byrd died on Mar 24, 1814 in Westover Plantation, Virginia. 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.
Westover Plantation
7000 Westover Road, Charles City, VA
GRAVE
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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