William Henry Fitzhugh
(1792-1830)
BIRTH
1792
PLACE
Chatham Manor, Stafford County, Virginia
DEATH
1830
PLACE
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
FAMILY
CHILDREN
William Fitzhugh
(1741-1809)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
AFRICAN COLONIZATION ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY VICE PRESIDENT
AWARDS
William Henry Fitzhugh (1792–1830) was a Virginia planter, legislator and colonization advocate. A Princeton graduate, he inherited Ravensworth and more than two hundred enslaved people in 1809. He served in both houses of Virginia’s legislature and the 1829–1830 constitutional convention. As an American Colonization Society officer, he promoted removal of free Black people to Africa. His will delayed emancipation until 1850; his widow later carried out its provisions.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of William Henry Fitzhugh’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 William Henry Fitzhugh 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.
CAREER
DEATH
William Henry Fitzhugh died in 1830, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S. William Henry Fitzhugh was a Virginia planter, legislator and colonization advocate. A Princeton graduate, he inherited Ravensworth and more than two hundred enslaved people in 1809. He served in both houses of Virginia’s legislature and the 1829–1830 constitutional convention. As an American Colonization Society officer, he promoted removal of free Black people to Africa. His will delayed emancipation until 1850; his widow later carried out its provisions. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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