Lawrence Washington’s Military Career and Mount Vernon

Lawrence Washington’s Military Career and Mount Vernon

Lawrence Washington

After participating in the War of Jenkins' Ear as a military officer, he became a leading figure in the Virginia Colony. He inherited the Little Hunting Creek property from his father and developed what is now Mount Vernon.

Timeline

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Year	Lawrence Washington
1718	Birth of Lawrence Washington (Period: 1718 (Exact date unknown), Location: Around Westmoreland County (present-day Westmoreland County, Virginia))
1729	Studying Abroad in England (Lawrence Washington, Age: 11 years old, Period: 1729–1738, Location: Appleby, Westmorland, England)
1738	Management of Little Hunting Creek Plantation (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1738–1743, Location: Little Hunting Creek, Virginia Colony)
1740	War of Jenkins’ Ear (Age: 22 years old, Period: Circa 1740–1742, Location: West Indies, Jamaica, Cartagena (Present-day Colombia), Cuba, etc.) Commissioning as Captain in the Virginia Forces (Age: 22 years old, Period: July 10, 1740, Location: Williamsburg, Virginia Colony)
1741	War of Jenkins’ Ear, Expedition to Cuba (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1741, Location: Guantánamo Bay (Then Cumberland Harbour), Cuba) Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Age: 23 years old, Period: March–April 1741, Location: Cartagena de Indias, New Granada (Present-day Colombia))
1743	Appointment as Adjutant General of the Virginia Militia (Lawrence Washington, Age: 25 years old, Period: Spring 1743, Location: Virginia Colony) Naming and Renovation of Mount Vernon (Age: 25 years old, Period: Circa 1743–1750s, Location: Little Hunting Creek, Present-day Mount Vernon, Virginia) Marriage (Lawrence Washington, Anne Fairfax, Age: 25 years old, Period: July 1743, Location: Presumed to be Around Belvoir, Virginia Colony)
1744	Election as Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (Lawrence Washington, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1744–1752, Location: Virginia Colonial Assembly)
1747	Founding of the Ohio Company (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1747, Location: Northern Neck Region, Virginia Colony)
1748	Passage of the Act Establishing Alexandria (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1748–1749, Location: Potomac River and Great Hunting Creek Area, Virginia Colony) Promotion of the Founding of Alexandria (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1748–1749, Location: Potomac River Coast, Present-day Alexandria, Virginia)
1749	Medical Examination in England (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1749, Location: London, England) Recuperation at Bath Springs (Age: 31 years old, Period: Circa 1749–1751, Location: Bath (Present-day Berkeley Springs, West Virginia)) Alexandria’s First Land Auction (Age: 31 years old, Period: July 1749, Location: Alexandria, Virginia Colony)
1751	Health Trip to Barbados (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1751, Location: Barbados) Recuperation Trip to Bermuda (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1751–1752, Location: Bermuda)
1752	Death of Lawrence Washington (Age: 34 years old, Period: July 26, 1752) Death of Lawrence Washington (Lawrence Washington, Age: 34 years old, Period: July 26, 1752, Location: Mount Vernon, Virginia Colony)

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Related Links

Group	List
Colonial settlement	John Smith Christopher Newport George Percy Edward Maria Wingfield Thomas Gates Samuel Argall William Strachey
Bacon's Rebellion	Nathaniel Bacon William Berkeley William Drummond Richard Lawrence Thomas Hansford Joseph Ingram
The Washington family	Augustine Warner Jr. Lawrence Washington Augustine Washington Sr. George Washington John Washington
North Carolina Early Settlers	John Lawson Thomas Cary Edward Hyde John Jenkins John Culpeper
Virginia politician	George Washington Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee Peyton Randolph George Mason IV

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