Augustine Washington Sr.’s Expansion of Family Wealth

Augustine Washington Sr.’s Expansion of Family Wealth

Augustine Washington Sr.

Belonging to Virginia's influential planter class, he owned multiple plantations, vast lands, and enslaved labor. Dying when George Washington was 11 years old, he had a profound impact on George's early youth.

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Year	Augustine Washington Sr.
1690	Childhood in England (Age: 4 years before birth, Period: Late 1690s–Early 1700s, Location: Whitehaven, England)
1694	Birth of Augustine Washington Sr. (Period: 1694 (Exact date unknown), Location: Around Montross (present-day Westmoreland County, Virginia))
1698	Death of Father Lawrence Washington (Augustine Washington Sr.) and Inheritance (Age: 4 years old, Period: 1698, Location: Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony) Issues Surrounding Guardianship of the Washington Family (Age: 4 years old, Period: 1698–Early 1700s, Location: England and Virginia Colony) Death of Father Lawrence Washington and Inheritance (Age: 4 years old, Period: 1698, Location: Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony)
1715	Formal Inheritance of Father’s Estate (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1715, Location: Bridges Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony) Marriage (Augustine Washington Sr., Jane Butler, Age: 21 years old, Period: 1715, Location: Virginia Colony, Around Bridges Creek)
1716	Appointment as Justice of the Peace for Westmoreland County (Augustine Washington Sr., Age: 22 years old, Period: July 1716, Location: Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony)
1718	Land Purchase at Pope’s Creek (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1718, Location: Pope’s Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony)
1720	Investment in the Accokeek Iron Works (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1720s–1730s, Location: Stafford County, Virginia Colony)
1723	Construction of the Wakefield Estate (Age: 29 years old, Period: Circa 1723–1735, Location: Pope’s Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia Colony)
1725	Ironworks Business Contract with the Principio Company (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1725, Location: Accokeek Creek, Stafford County, Virginia Colony)
1726	Land Acquisition at Little Hunting Creek (Augustine Washington Sr., Age: 32 years old, Period: 1726, Location: Little Hunting Creek, Virginia Colony)
1731	Marriage (Augustine Washington Sr., Mary Ball, Age: 37 years old, Period: March 6, 1731, Location: Virginia Colony, Around Pope’s Creek)
1735	Family Relocation to Little Hunting Creek (Augustine Washington Sr., Age: 41 years old, Period: 1735, Location: Little Hunting Creek, Present-day Mount Vernon Area, Virginia)
1738	Acquisition of Ferry Farm (Augustine Washington Sr., Age: 44 years old, Period: 1738, Location: Rappahannock River, Present-day Fredericksburg Area, Virginia)
1743	Death of Augustine Washington Sr. (Age: 49 years old, Period: April 12, 1743) Death of Augustine Washington (Age: 49 years old, Period: April 12, 1743, Location: Ferry Farm, Stafford County, Virginia Colony)

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