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Charles Washington was born 1 May 1738 in Hunting Creek, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States to Augustine Washington (c1694-1743) and Mary Ball (1708-1789) and died September 1799 Charles Town, West Virginia, United States of unspecified causes. He married Mildred Thornton (1737-1804) October 1757 .


Charles Washington (May 2, 1738 – September 16, 1799) was the youngest brother of United States President George Washington. He was a son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington.

Biography

Charles was born at Hunting Creek in Stafford County, Virginia (now Fairfax County). He married Mildred Thornton, daughter of Colonel Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory around 1761. They had four children. Charles served as a magistrate in Stafford County before the Revolution. In 1766 with his brothers Samuel Washington and John Augustine Washington, he signed the Leetown Resolve to protest the British Stamp Act. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, Charles served as colonel of the Spotsylvania County, Virginia, militia.[1] He arrived in present Jefferson County, West Virginia between April and October 1780 and founded Charles Town. There he erected a house, Happy Retreat, the same year. In 1786, on 80 acres (320,000 m²) of his adjoining land, Charles laid out the streets of Charles Town, naming many of them after his brothers and one after his wife, Mildred. He donated the four corner lots at the intersection of George and Washington Streets for public buildings of the town and county, provided the town become the seat of the county upon its separation from Berkeley County. Jefferson County was formed in 1801 as Charles anticipated. The county court house stands on one of these lots[2]. Charles died sometime between July and September, 1799, only a short while before the death of his brother, George. The grave sites of Charles and Mildred are near Evitts Run and have recently been located and surrounded by a stone wall.


Children


Offspring of Charles Washington and Mildred Thornton (1737-1804)
Name Birth Death Joined with
George Augustine Washington (1758-1793) 1758 Stafford County, Virginia, United States 5 February 1793 Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States Frances Bassett (1767-1796)
Frances Ann Washington (1763-1815)
Samuel Washington (1770-1831)
Mildred Gregory Washington (1772-1804)






Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General


References

  1. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~opus/p55.htm (July 2010)
  2. ^ As did the jail until 1919 when it was demolished to be replaced by the post office.
Persondata
NAME Washington, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Brother of George Washington
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Hunting Creek, Virginia
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1799
PLACE OF DEATH unknown


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