Life History

Notes

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  Augustine, second son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married for his second wife,  Mary Ball; their oldest son was George Washington (President of the United States); their only daughter, Betty Washington, was the second wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, by whom she had a numerous progeny, notable in themselves and their descendants.
  
  Mildred, the only daughter of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married, first, Roger Gregory, by whom she had three daughters, Mildred, Frances, and Elizabeth, who married three brothers, Colonel John, Colonel Francis, and Reuben Thornton; she married, secondly, Colonel Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, by whom she had a son, Colonel Lewis Willis, and a daughter, Anne, who married Duff Greenv John Lewis, the son of Colonel Fielding and Catherine (Washington) Lewis, was married five times.
  
  First, to Lucy Thornton, youngest daughter of Colonel John Thornton and Mildred Gregory, by whom he had a daughter, Mildred (the sister of Lucy Thornton married Samuel Washington, brother of the President, General William Woodford of the Revolution, and John Taliaferro of Dissington). Secondly, John Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton, daughter of Colonel Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory, by whom he had no child.
  
  One of the brothers of his second wife was the gallant Colonel John Thornton of the Revolution, who married Jane, daughter of Augustine Washington, elder half-brother of the President, and was the
  ancestor of the wife of Senator James B. Beck, and Mildred, one of the sisters of his second wife was the wife of Charles Washington, younger full-brother of the President.
  
  John Lewis' third wife was a daughter of Gabriel Jones, widely known in Virginia during his own generation, and remembered for years after all who knew him had passed away as "The Valley Lawyer."  The fourth wife of John Lewis was Mary Anne Fontaine, the widow Armistead, her father of that excellent Huguenot stock, her mother a Winston, of the same blood as Patrick Henry, the South Carolina Prestons, and Mrs. Madison.
  
  John Lewis' fifth wife was Mildred Carter, widow of Robert Mercer, a son of the Princeton hero.  She was a daughter of Landon Carter, her mother being a daughter of Colonel Lewis Willis.  It is a noteworthy circumstance that the two first wives of John Lewis were granddaughters of his great aunt, Mildred Washington, by her first husband, Roger Gregory, and his fifth and last wife, her great-granddaughter by her second husband, Colonel Henry Willis."
  -  From Courier-Journal Genealogies
  
  --  Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 75, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c
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  The Mt Veronon plantation where the mansion was later built was in Prince William County, but fell within the boundaries of the new Fairfax County when it was established in 1742.
  
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  Fairfax County was formed in 1742 from the northern part of Prince William County. It was named for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693-1781), proprietor of the Northern Neck.[8][9] The Fairfax family name is derived from the Old English phrase for "blond hair" - Faeger-feahs.
  
  The oldest settlements in Fairfax County were along the Potomac River. George Washington settled in Fairfax County and built his home, Mount Vernon, facing the river. Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason is nearby. Modern Fort Belvoir is partly on the estate of Belvoir Manor, built along the Potomac by William Fairfax in 1741.
  
  Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the only member of the British nobility ever to reside in the colonies, lived at Belvoir before he moved to the Shenandoah Valley. The Belvoir mansion and several of its outbuildings were destroyed by fire immediately after the Revolutionary War in 1783, and George Washington noted the plantation complex deteriorated into ruins.
  --  Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia
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  Millennium File
  Augustine (Capt) Washington
  Gender Male
  Birth 1694 Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
  Death 12 Apr 1743 Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia, USA
  Spouse Mary Ball
  Spouse Father Joseph (Col) Ball
  Spouse Mother Mary? Bennett
  Marriage Date 6 Mar 1731
  Children:
  Samuel Washington; John Augustine Washington; George(St Pres.) Washington
  
  "Augustine Washington Departed this Life the 12th Day of April 1743"
  --  Washington Family Bible, photo courtesy of MtVernon.org, posted 2 July 2018 by FamilySearch.org, accessed 3 September 2018
  
  Captain Lawrence Augustine Washington - death: 12 April 1743; Ferry Farm, Stafford County, Virginia, British Colonial America
  --  Debrett's Presidents of the United States of America, David Williamson, Salem House Publishers 1989 ISBN 0-88162-366-0, on FamilySearch.org
  
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  Augustine Washington, Sr
  BIRTH 12 Nov 1694 Westmoreland, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA
  DEATH 12 Apr 1743 (aged 48) Ferry Farm, Stafford County, Virginia, USA
  BURIAL George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Latanes, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Popes Creek Plantation Plot
  
  Father of George Washington, America's first President. The British were well established in America with thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution led by George Washington culminating in independence from England and the formation of a united county. Cities, seaports, schools, churches and thriving industry doted the landscape. In the south, large plantations sprang up, constructed and operated by cheap labor in the form of slaves imported from Africa. By the time of the marriage of Jane Butler and Augustine Washington Sr., three family generations had past since George's Great Grandfather John Washington had immigrated to the Colonies during the British Civil War in 1631.
  
  The extensive family became prosperous and thriving when Augustine Washington was born in 1694 in Westmoreland County, Virginia on his father's plantation. He was only four when his father died and his inheritance consisted of 1,000 acres on Bridges Creek (Popes Creek). When Augustine came of age, he married Jane Butler, an orphan with considerable wealth of her own. The couple settled on his inherited property and quickly constructed a new house called "Wakefield." He developed the land known as Popes Creek Plantation into a modest but successful farming venture.
  
  In addition to cultivating tobacco, he was active in the church, local politics and served at various times as justice of the peace and county sheriff. The marriage would produce two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr. Jane would pass away in 1728 and three years later Augustine would marry a second time to Mary Ball. Their first born would be George destined to be the first President of the United States. Although born in the "Wakefield Mansion," he would only spend the first three years of his life as the family moved many times, living at various plantations owned by Augustine Sr.
  
  The family lastly settled at Ferry Farm Plantation near Frederiksburg where Augustine owned and operated Accokeek Iron Furnace located nearby. Five other children followed...Samuel, Elizabeth, John Augustine, Charles, and Mildred (died in infancy). When Augustine Washington Sr. died in 1743 at Ferry Farm, he left his wife Mary Ball with many small children but well provided. George the oldest was but eleven. He along with other family members conveyed their father's remains by land and river 35 miles back to Popes Creek where they buried him beside his first wife and near his father and grandfather at the Washington family burial ground (Popes Creek Cemetery.)
  
  Mary would continue to live with her children and operate Ferry Farm with enslaved labor until selling the farm and moving into the town of Fredericksburg in 1774. Soon after the death of his father, George would live with his half brother Augustine Washington Jr. (Austin) in order to pursue an education at the Henry Williams School in Westmoreland County. At age fifteen he was a land surveyor. His first assignment was a land survey of 22 acres at Popes Creek. Legacy...In 1779, William, the son of Augustine Washington Jr., accidently burned down "Wakefield" after building a large fire in the mansion fire place then leaving to attend Episcopal church services on Christmas day. A spark from the chimney ignited a fire that destroyed the dwelling.
  
  A replica plantation house was constructed on the plantation land in Westmoreland County to approximate the original birth house in 1932 and is today known as the "Memorial House." The historical area today consists of 538 acres with the house, the Washington family burial ground, a working demonstration farm and 18th century period garden. Also interred in the burial ground are 28 other early members of the Washington family.
  
  President George Washington was buried at Mt. Vernon in 1799 and his mother Mary Ball Washington in Frederiksburg. The original foundations of what is believed to be the birth house were discovered by preservationist and is outlined. The site is now known as the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. An unmarked slave graveyard discovered at the Washington birthplace is an infamous legacy of Augustine Washington Sr. It contains 156 bodies of slaves owned by George Washington's father.
  
  Trivia note: Washington's birthplace eventually was sold and passed from the holdings of the Washington family. It was allow to disintegrate until preservationists realized the historical significance of the site. However, it was too late, nothing remained. But finally a concerted effort with private and government assistance began to restore the plantation in the early 30's in a style of how it may have looked.
  
  Even the burial grounds was a vain attempt at restoration and creation. The finished project today resulted after disinterring of family parts, and a few vandalized markers from around the plantation and area with reinterring on the site.
  
  Parents:
  Lawrence Washington 1659-1697
  Mildred Warner Washington 1671-1701
  
  Spouses:
  Jane Butler Washington 1699-1729
  Mary Ball Washington 1708-1789
  
  Siblings:
  John Washington 1692-1746
  Mildred Warner Washington Willis 1696-1747
  Mildred Washington 1696-1696
  
  Half Siblings:
  Lewis Willis 1734-1813
  
  Children:
  Butler Washington 1716-1716
  Lawrence Washington 1718-1752
  Augustine Washington 1720-1762
  George Washington 1732-1799
  Elizabeth Washington Lewis 1733-1797
  Samuel Washington 1734-1781
  John Augustine Washington 1736-1787
  Charles Washington 1738-1799
  
  Maintained by Find A Grave, added 17 Apr 2001
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 21506, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21506/augustine-washington
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Millennium Files, Ancestry.com
• 3. Family Bibles
• 4. FamilySearch Trees
• 5. Archive.org