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hawthorn [index entry] 
agriculture; and hawthorn hedges [index entry]  hawthorn [index entry] 
agriculture; and hawthorn hedges [index entry]  Main (Maine), Thomas; and hawthorn hedges [index entry] 
thinks the Cockspur hawthorn (our common one) would be preferable as being stronger. say that our Cockspur hawthorn (Crataegus cruxgalli) was the best for hedges he had ever met with.
was also known as the Washington hawthorn ( comprised of Washington hawthorns planted at
: Washington hawthorn, also classified as
agriculture; and hawthorn hedges [index entry]  hawthorn [index entry] 
Between 1805 and 1807 Main sold TJ apple, mulberry, peach, and other varieties of trees, as well as grapevines and thousands of Washington hawthorn seedlings for the creation of live fences at . The hawthorn hedges failed to prosper, however, and by 1811 they had been largely abandoned (...probably an unsuccessful prospectus for either a new work on hawthorn cultivation or a new edition of Main...
“The enclosed copies of two letters from Captn: Hawthorn of the Brig Hannah of Philada. and Mr. Ridgway, ...Consuls. The Minister of the United States, General Armstrong, to whom I have Submitted them for his advice in what applies to the conduct of Capt. Hawthorn tells me he does not See that any thing can be done with him—(except the refusing the papers he wants) and that his vessel—Sold under...
). In 1799 George Steptoe Washington was living at Harewood, his father’s place in Berkeley County. His brother Lawrence Augustine was living at Federal Hill, later called Hawthorn, at Winchester on a part of the estate of the family of his wife, Dorcas Wood Washington. Their younger sister, Harriot, was married to Andrew Parks of Baltimore. Thornton Washington, whose mother was Samuel’s second...