Fielding Lewis And The Washington Family

Author : Paula S. Felder
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ISBN 13 : 9781891722011
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fielding Lewis and the Washington Family written by Paula S. Felder and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredericksburg was established in 1728 as a port on the Rappahannock River. As the population grew, it also became the county seat for Spotsylvania County. Fielding Lewis moved there from Gloucester County to manage his father's store in 1746. The same year, he married Catherine Washington, a cousin from Gloucester County. She died after the birth of their third child. His second wife, Betty Washington, was the sister of George Washington. Betty and Fielding Lewis had eleven children. During four decades in Fredericksburg, by virtue of his social rank and leadership skills, Fielding Lewis rose to fill all of the leading county offices. When the Revolutionary War began, he was heavily involved in the colonists' cause against England. He died in 1781 shortly after the victory at Yorktown.

Author : William Terrell Lewis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America written by William Terrell Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of John Lewis. He was born in Donegal County, Ireland 1678 to Andrew Lewis and Mary Calhoun. He married Margaret Lynn. He died in Virginia 1 Feb 1762. They were the parents of seven children.

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8N/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Relationships of George Washington written by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806308319
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lewis of Warner Hall written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1979 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "According to tradition the Lewis family of 'Warner Hall' is descended from the emigrant Robert Lewis, who came [from England] to Virginia in 1635." Descendants lived throughout the United States.

Author : Albert Welles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family written by Albert Welles and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Family Life of George Washington written by Charles Moore and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company written by Charles Royster and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the equally insatiable American demand for European manufactured goods. Moving from the plantations of Virginia and Antigua to the warehouses of London and Glasgow, from the Gold Coast of Africa to the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains, from the iron furnaces of southern Wales to the subscribers' room of Lloyd's of London, Professor Royster gives us the story of the Dismal Swamp Company, a fantastically delusional enterprise that proposed draining and developing a vast morass along the Virginia-North Carolina border. Examining the interconnected lives of the company's partners, Royster reveals a colonial order built on a system of cronyism, conspicuous consumption, and debt that seems hauntingly familiar. He writes about the many schemers and dreamers (including George Washington, Robert "King" Carter, two William Byrds, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Morris) who failed to amass their desired fortunes, and a few realists (Samuel Gist, Dr. Thomas Walker, and Anthony Bacon) who succeeded, but at the dire expense of others. And we see the breakdown of this culture and the transition to a more democratic, though similar, system after the Revolution. Throughout Royster's narrative we seepossessors possessed by their possessions, slaveholders possessed by slavery, and heirs possessed by litigation. Connecting all their stories are their unceasing efforts to make something substantial out of the insubstantial--chief among them the almost unbelievable delusion that fortunes could bemade from the Dismal Swamp.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799 written by George Washington and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.

Author : Martha Saxton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721335
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Widow Washington written by Martha Saxton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington’s mother, based on archival sources. Her son’s biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety. Stepping into Virginia’s upper class, she married an older man, the planter Augustine Washington, with whom she had five children before his death eleven years later. As a widow deprived of most of her late husband’s properties, Mary struggled to raise her children, but managed to secure them places among Virginia’s elite. In her later years, she and her wealthy son George had a contentious relationship, often disagreeing over money, with George dismissing as imaginary her fears of poverty and helplessness. Yet Mary Ball Washington had a greater impact on George than mothers of that time and place usually had on their sons. George did not have the wealth or freedom to enjoy the indulged adolescence typical of young men among the planter class. Mary’s demanding mothering imbued him with many of the moral and religious principles by which he lived. The two were strikingly similar, though the commanding demeanor, persistence, athleticism, penny-pinching, and irascibility that they shared have served the memory of the country’s father immeasurably better than that of his mother. Martha Saxton’s The Widow Washington is a necessary and deeply insightful corrective, telling the story of Mary’s long, arduous life on its own terms, and not treating her as her son’s satellite.

Author : Jane Taylor Duke
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019352830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenmore and the Lewises; written by Jane Taylor Duke and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the rich history of Kenmore and the Lewises with this captivating book. From the early days of settlement to the present day, this chronicle is an in-depth look at one of Virginia's oldest communities. Featuring personal anecdotes, maps, and historical photos, Kenmore and the Lewises is a must-read for anyone interested in local history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.