William A. Dandridge
BIRTH
Mar 2, 1734
New Kent County, Virginia
DEATH
February 9, 1779
Williamsburg, Virginia
FAMILY
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Dandridge, William A.
(1734-1779)
William Alexander Dandridge was a Virginia planter and member of the extended family of Martha Washington. His marriage and kinship ties connected him with prominent Tidewater households that supported and sustained Virginia’s Revolutionary leadership.
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SISTER
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
SISTER
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749-1799)
BROTHER
Bartholomew Dandridge
(1737-1785)
SISTER
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
(1739-1777)
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DIED:
Williamsburg, Virginia
Feb 9, 1779
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.