1[April 1760] (Washington Papers)
John Posey’s ferry crossed the Potomac River from the lower point of the Mount Vernon neck to Marshall Hall in Charles County, Md., home of Capt. Thomas Hanson Marshall (1731–1801) and his wife Rebecca Dent Marshall (c.1737–1770). By using Posey’s ferry, GW could cut across Charles County, past Port Tobacco, and recross the Potomac, entering Virginia in the Chotank......widow, Ann Alexander...
2Cash Accounts, March 1763 (Washington Papers)
To Robt Alexander for Balle of BondTo Mr [Thomas Hanson] Marshall for Balle of
3Memorandum Books, 1767 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson v. Hanson. Send copy decln.Alexander McCaul
4Cash Accounts, March 1768 (Washington Papers)
To Captn Hanson Marshall for weavingBy Alexander Cleveland in full for his share of Hemp made in 1765
5Cash Accounts, April 1768 (Washington Papers)
To Cash of Mr Hanson MarshallBy Alexander McKenzies Acct
6Memorandum Books, 1769 (Jefferson Papers)
John McCue (Albemarle) v. Alexander Patten (Amherst) and David Kincaid (Augusta). Enter Caveat for 71 acres on a branch of Rockfish river near the Blue mountains adjoining the lands of William Simson and Michael Craft, Amherst. Surveied in 1746. Works never...Alexander Reid junr. (Amherst) v. Lilly Bowen (Augusta). A Caveat already brought. Emploied by Colo. W. Cabell for pl.
7To George Washington from John West, Jr., 26 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
...1768. Martha Price Posey’s first husband, George Harrison, left to her for life his plantation of some two hundred acres neighboring Mount Vernon. In 1757 Posey bought from Thomas Marshall, the father of Thomas Hanson Marshall, a six-acre strip of land along the Potomac adjacent to the Harrison tract that he held through his wife. When Mrs. Posey died in 1768, John West, Jr., who was the...
8[June 1769] (Washington Papers)
...would greet the newly married couple there. Almost everything not mortgaged to GW had been attached by the Fairfax County sheriff to be sold for payment of various debts, and, according to Posey’s son Hanson, the slaves would be without bread in a few days and the horses had nothing to eat at all. Furthermore, several merchants had brought suit against Posey and GW in the county court to...
9To George Washington from Thomas Hanson Marshall, 18 June 1769 (Washington Papers)
...made safe in Regard to the Conveyance, As his Wife is not of Suffiteant Age to Co[n]vey the same, And the Land Under a Strong Intale However that would be Easilly wiped of (heare) was Mrs Alexander of Suffiteant age, On youre Giveing me a suffiteant Indemnification in Regard to Mr Alexanders Land ⟨bein made⟩ over to me &ca when his Wife is Quallified ⟨so to⟩ do, And we can Agree On the...Hanson
10[August 1769] (Washington Papers)
...’s home, Fairfield. Thruston returned to the Frederick Parish vestry in Nov. 1768, accepted an offer of the rectorship, and resigned his post in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, the following month. His “Lady” was Ann Alexander Thruston, his second wife, whom he had married in 1766....s brothers-in-law, married Mary Alexander in 1773. A prominent businessman in Fredericksburg for many...