1November [1799] (Washington Papers)
John Fairfax resigned from GW’s employ in Dec. 1790 and settled in Monongalia County, where he became a justice of the peace in 1794 and later represented that county in the Virginia House of Delegates (1809–10, 1814–15). His first wife, Mary Byrne, of Virginia, bore him two sons, and his second wife, Anne Lloyd Franklin, of Charles County, Md., bore him two more, one of whom...
2[Diary entry: 2 November 1799] (Washington Papers)
John Fairfax resigned from GW’s employ in Dec. 1790 and settled in Monongalia County, where he became a justice of the peace in 1794 and later represented that county in the Virginia House of Delegates (1809–10, 1814–15). His first wife, Mary Byrne, of Virginia, bore him two sons, and his second wife, Anne Lloyd Franklin, of Charles County, Md., bore him two more, one of whom...
3From George Washington to Richard Kidder Meade, 12 August 1799 (Washington Papers)
James Stephenson (1764–1833) of Martinsburg in what is now West Virginia, served as a member of the Virginia house of delegates from 1800 to 1803 and in 1806 and 1807, and as a Federalist member of Congress in 1803–5, 1809–11, and 1822–25. For Stephenson’s recommendation of James Glenn, see
4From George Washington to John Marshall, 6 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
Robert Porterfield (1752–1843), who represented Augusta County in the Virginia house of delegates from 3 Dec. 1798 to 26 Jan. 1799, served in the Virginia Line throughout the Revolutionary War, rising from second lieutenant in 1776 to captain in 1779. He was brigadier general of the Virginia militia during the...
5April [1799] (Washington Papers)
: Richard Bland Lee and Thomas Swann were elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from Fairfax County.
6From George Washington to Ludwell Lee, 26 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
). Ludwell Lee’s cousin Henry Lee was elected to Congress, and Henry Lee’s brother Richard Bland Lee was one of the two men elected to the Virginia house of delegates from Fairfax County.
7[Diary entry: 24 April 1799] (Washington Papers)
: Richard Bland Lee and Thomas Swann were elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from Fairfax County.
8From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 23 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
Robert Brooke (c.1761–1800), a lawyer in Fredericksburg, was a member of the Virginia house of delegates from Spotsylvania from 1791 through 1794, when he was elected governor. He was elected attorney general of Virginia in 1796, immediately after his term as governor ended. His brother John T. Brooke also represented Spotsylvania County in...
9August [1797] (Washington Papers)
States Army in 1794. Earlier, in 1790–91, he served one term in the Virginia House of Delegates. Blackburn was married first to Judith Ball and then, sometime after Oct. 1796, to Ann Blause (c.1760–c.1804)....–1836), served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–90 and was now speaker of the Virginia Senate. His first wife, Flora Lee, had died, and he was married again on 30 May 1797 to...
10[Diary entry: 30 August 1797] (Washington Papers)
Richard Henry Lee’s eldest son, Ludwell Lee (1760–1836), served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–90 and was now speaker of the Virginia Senate. His first wife, Flora Lee, had died, and he was married again on 30 May 1797 to Elizabeth (Betsey) Armistead, daughter of Bowles and Mary Fontaine...