Nathaniel Burwell (1779–1849), planter and public official, was the third son of Nathaniel Burwell (1750–1814), who had also corresponded with TJ. He was born at Carter’s Grove plantation in James City County and attended the College of William and Mary in 1798. Having permanently relocated, like his father, to Frederick County, Burwell owned fifty-seven slaves there in 1810 and eighty-three a decade later. In 1809 he acquired Saratoga, an estate located in a part of Frederick County that became Clarke County in 1836, and he represented Clarke and Warren counties in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1839–41 and 1843–44. At the time of his death at Saratoga, Burwell possessed around seventy-five slaves, other personal property valued at just under $20,000, and bonds worth more than $22,000 (Burwell family Bible [ViWC]; DVB description begins John T. Kneebone, Sara B. Bearss, and others, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, 1998– , 3 vols. description ends , 2:437–8; William and Mary Provisional List description begins A Provisional List of Alumni, Grammar School Students, Members of the Faculty, and Members of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. From 1693 to 1888, 1941 description ends , 10; DNA: RG 29, CS, Frederick Co., 1810, 1820; Edith Tunis Sale, ed., Historic Gardens of Virginia [1923], 342; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 392, 396, 410; Richmond Enquirer, 16 Nov. 1849; Clarke Co. Will Book, B:347–9, 376–8).