Thornton Washington
BIRTH
May 20, 1783
Berry's Hill near Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia)
DEATH
October 9, 1841
Cedar Lawn near Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia)
FAMILY
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Washington, Thornton
(1783-1841)
Thornton Washington (1783–1841) was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a planter, farmer, soldier. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “John Thornton Augustine Washington.”
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BROTHER
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
BROTHER
Lawrence Augustine Washington
(1814-1882)
SISTER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
BROTHER
George Steptoe Washington
(1771-1809)
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DIED:
Cedar Lawn near Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia)
Oct 9, 1841
Thornton Washington was born on May 20, 1783 in Berry's Hill near Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia). 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 Thornton Washington with work or public activity as a planter, farmer, 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. Thornton Washington died on Oct 9, 1841 in Cedar Lawn near Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia). Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.