William Fitzhugh
BIRTH
1741/08/24
King George County, Virginia
DEATH
June 6, 1809
Fairfax County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
Henry Fitzhugh
(1723-1783)
MOTHER:
Lucy Carter
(1798-1881)
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Fitzhugh, William
(1741-1809)
William Fitzhugh was a Virginia planter, legislator, and Continental congressman. A neighbor and associate of George Washington, he supported the Patriot cause and served in Virginia and national public office during and after the Revolution.
HOMES:
MUSEUM
Chatham Manor
120 Chatham Lane, Fredericksburg, VA
1
SISTER
Mary Anna Custis Lee
(1807-1873)
WIFE
Anne Randolph
(1747-1805)
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
(1788-1853)
William Henry Fitzhugh
(1792-1830)
Ann Randolph Fitzhugh Craik
(c. 1783-c. 1806)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chatham Manor | 120 Chatham Lane, Fredericksburg, VA | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Fairfax County, Virginia
Jun 6, 1809
William Fitzhugh was born on Aug 24, 1741 in King George 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 Fitzhugh with work or public activity as a planter, statesman. 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 Fitzhugh died on Jun 6, 1809 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.