Colonel William Dandridge
(1689-1744)
BIRTH
1689
PLACE
Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England
NAME
Col William Dandridge
DEATH
1744
PLACE
Greenwich, Kent, England
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William Dandridge (1689–1744) was an English-born Virginia merchant, naval officer and councillor. He settled at Elsing Green on the Pamunkey River and rose within the colony’s governing elite through marriage and trade. In 1728 he joined William Byrd II and Richard Fitzwilliam in surveying the boundary with North Carolina. His naval service included the Caribbean war against Spain. As John Dandridge’s brother, he was Martha Washington’s uncle, living before independence.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Col William Dandridge’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.
No distinct public profession or office for Col William Dandridge is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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William Dandridge died in 1744, in Greenwich, Kent, England. William Dandridge was an English-born Virginia merchant, naval officer and councillor. He settled at Elsing Green on the Pamunkey River and rose within the colony’s governing elite through marriage and trade. In 1728 he joined William Byrd II and Richard Fitzwilliam in surveying the boundary with North Carolina. His naval service included the Caribbean war against Spain. As John Dandridge’s brother, he was Martha Washington’s uncle, living before independence. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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