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  1. Lawrence Washington

    American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia; half-brother of George Washington

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  1. Lawrence Washington died of tuberculosis at his Mount Vernon home in July 1752. His widow Anne remarried into the Lee family shortly thereafter. Twenty-year-old George lived at, and managed, the Mount Vernon plantation.

  2. Major Washington returned to Virginia in June of 1752, and died shortly thereafter in July from tuberculosis. In his will Major Washington left Mount Vernon to his daughter Sarah, his only living child.

  3. May 31, 2023 · He died on 26 July 1752. Upon Lawrence’s death, he left behind his wife Anne Fairfax and daughter Sarah. Three other children had already died all under the age of two. Infant mortality frequently occurred in the 1700s, so it proves impossible to know what caused each death.

  4. After contacting tuberculosis years earlier, Lawrence Washington died from the disease in 1752. In 1761, George inherited Mount Vernon from Lawrence's widow. He placed his half-brother's portrait in his private chamber in the Mansion, his Study - a fitting tribute to the man who helped make him who he was.

  5. A man of achievement in his own lifetime, Lawrence Washington has suffered from the pre-eminence of his younger brother. Lawrence Washington was the oldest surviving child of Augustine and his first wife, Jane Butler. The probable date of his birth was 1718.

  6. Aug 12, 2019 · Upon his return to Virginia, Lawrence was named adjutant general of the colony. Augustine Washington, Lawrence and George’s father, died on April 12, 1743. George was eleven. After his father’s death, George visited Mount Vernon more frequently, escaping his mother who lived in Fredericksburg.

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  8. May 27, 2016 · Lawrence, George Washington’s elder half-brother by their father’s first marriage, stayed in Barbados that December of 1751. His condition, presumably tuberculosis, was none improved from their seven-week stay on the island, and he was determined to get better—if not in Barbados, then in Bermuda. 1 George, his travel companion, had to get ...

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