William Dandridge
(1734-1779)
BIRTH
March 2, 1734
PLACE
New Kent County, Virginia
DEATH
February 9, 1779
PLACE
Williamsburg, Virginia
FAMILY
SISTER
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
BROTHER
Bartholomew Dandridge
(1737-1785)
SISTER
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
(1739-1777)
SISTER
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749–c. 1800)
HOMES
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AWARDS
William Dandridge was a younger brother of Martha Washington and son of John Dandridge and Frances Jones of Chestnut Grove in New Kent County, Virginia. His sister Elizabeth’s family Bible records his birth in March 1734/35 and death by sudden drowning in January 1776. Mount Vernon likewise dates his death to 1776, conflicting with this record’s 1779. The circumstances of the drowning and any distinct public career remain unestablished in the sources consulted.
EARLY LIFE
William A. Dandridge was born on Mar 2, 1734 in New Kent County, 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 William A. Dandridge with work or public activity as a planter. 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. William A. Dandridge died on Feb 9, 1779 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
William Dandridge was a younger brother of Martha Washington and son of John Dandridge and Frances Jones of Chestnut Grove in New Kent County, Virginia. Mount Vernon likewise dates his death to 1776, conflicting with this record’s 1779. William A. Dandridge died on Feb 9, 1779 in Williamsburg, 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.
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