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Major Lawrence Washington was the second child and oldest surviving son of Augustin and Jane (Butler) Washington, born at Pope's Creek, Westmoreland county, Virginia, in 1718. He was the grandson of Lawrence and great grandson of Colonel John, the emigrant, who came to Virginia about 1657. Augustin, the .father of Lawrence, was twice married and had ten children as follows : 1st, Butler, born 1716, died young; 2d, Lawrence, born 1718, died at Mount Vernon 26th July, 1752 ; 3d, Augustin, born 1720, died ; 4th, Jane, born 1722, died 1735.By his second wife, Mary Ball, he had, 1st, George, first president of the United States, born nth February, O. S., died 14th December, 1799; 2d, Betty, born 1733, died 31st March, 1797; 3d, Samuel, born 1734, died 1781 ; 4th, John Augustin, born 1736, died 1787 ; 5th, Charles, born 1738, died September, 1799 ; 6th, Mildred, born 1739, died 1740. At the age of fifteen Lawrence was sent to England to be educated. On leaving college, he obtained a Captain's commission in the army, and served in a regiment raised in Virginia for the expedition against Carthegena 174042, under the command of Admiral Vernon, and returned to Virginia in the Fall of 1742. His father died 12th April, 1743, leaving a comparatively large estate to his wife and children. Lawrence, being the oldest son, was made one of the executors, and to him was left " the Hunting Creek " plantation on the Potomac, consisting of 2,500 acres. To Augustin, his third child, who had married Anne Aylett, was bequeathed the plantation of Wakefield, on which he was then residing. George, the oldest child by his second marriage, was to have the plantation at Falmouth. His widow and each of his children were thus duly provided for. On the igth July, 1743, Lawrence was married to Anne, eldest daughter of the Hon. William Fairfax, of Belvoir, by his first wife. He settled upon his inherited plantation and immediately began to improve and cultivate it. He built a new two-story frame dwelling-house, the same which forms the central part of the present mansion, and named his estate " Mount Vernon " in honor of his old commander, Admiral Vernon. Lawrence had received a collegiate education, had traveled and mixed a good deal with the prominent business men of Great Britain and the Colonies. He was with his brother Augustin among the originators of " the Ohio Company," the purpose of which was to bring the lands about the head-waters of the Ohio into market and to trade with the Indians, and at the time of his death was its president. He also interested himself in the manufacture of iron, both in Virginia and Maryland; was commissioned a Major in the military service of the Colony with a salary of ^150 per annum; and elected a member of the House of Burgesses of Virginia in 1748, from Fairfax county. He was a man of excellent business habits, sound judgment, untiring industry and attention to his duty. Lawrence Washington while a member of the House of Burgesses was influential in having charters granted for the towns of Alexandria and of Colchester, in Fairfax county. He, together with Lord Fairfax, George Mason, William Fairfax, William Ramsay, John Carlyle and others, was named trustee for laying out the town of Alexandria and selling the lots ; his portrait in oil hangs in the mansion at Mount Vernon, and his remains now rest in the vault in the rear of those of his illustrious half-brother, George Washington. He was always of a delicate constitution, but nevertheless by prudence and close attention to his various interests, his business prospered and he was rapidly becoming wealthy and a recognized leader in the chief enterprises of his day in the Colony of Virginia. He was greatly attached to his half-brother, George, whom he had with him whenever it was practicable, and he was influential in bringing him early to the notice of Lord Fairfax, of the Governor of Virginia, and of other prominent and official personages of the times. He was to George as a father and a wise counsellor. Major Lawrence, from failing health in 1751, resigned his commission in the military service of the Colony, and, at his instance, George was commissioned one of the Adjutants-General under new law, with the rank of Major, and the pay of ^150 a year. Lawrence had four children born to him, but they all died in infancy; the youngest, Sarah, survived him some months. To this child he had devised his Mount Vernon estate if she outlived him, but in the event of her death without issue, then it was to go to " his beloved brother George," who was made one of his executors. He also provided well for his widow, who subsequently married George Lee, brother to the father of Arthur and Richard Henry Lee, patriots of the Revolution.
Source: Copied from . . . . THE DAILY JOURNAL OF MAJOR GEORGE WASHINGTON, IN I75I-2 (page 43), as digitized by Google Books at => http://books.google.com/books?id=TVsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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