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born about 163 1, came to \'irginia as a master's mate under Edward Prescott at^out 1657; chosen vestryman of Appomattox parish. Westmoreland, July 3, 1661 ; jus- tice of the peace June 24, 1662; lieutenant- colonel in 1670, and member of the house of burgesses 1666, 1676. He commanded against the Indians in i^VS. and was friendly to Sir William Berkeley in 1676. He died in 1677. He was ancestor of General George Washington.

Washington, John, settled in Surry county before 1658, was justice of the peace and major of the militia. Issue a son Rich- ard, w^ho sold land in 1678 and died in 1725. He was ancestor of Sidney Lanier, but no known relative to theAX'ashingtons of West- moreland county.

Washington, Lawrence, merchant, son of a royalist clergyman. Rev. Lawrence Wash- ington, of Purleigh, count}' Essex, England, came to \'irginia about 1656. He married Mary Jones, of Luton, county Bedford. Eng- land ; died in \'irginia. He was brother of Colonel John A\'ashington (q. v.).

Washington, Lawrence, second child and oldest surviving son cf Augustine Washing- ton and Jane Butler, his first wife, was born at Pope's Creek, Westmoreland county, Virginia, in 1718. He was a half brother of General George Washington. He was edu- cated in England and settled upon the "Hunting Creek Plantation," devised him by his father in Fairfax county. Pie was burgess for Fairfax from 1742 to 1749 and was one of the originators of the Ohio Company (1749). He was also interested in the manufacture of iron, both in Vir- ginia and in Maryland. He was a captain

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in the British army, and in 1740-1742 served under Admiral X'ernon in the expedition against Carthagena. Later he was com- missioned a major in the \'irginia service. On account of sickness he resigned and in 1 75 1 went to Barbadoes for his health in company with his brother George. He died July 26, 1752. at his residence "Mt. Vernon" named in honor of his old commander. Ad- miral X'ernon. He married on July 19, 1743, Anne, eldest daughter of Hon. William Fairfax of "P)elvoir," but left no survi\ing issue.

Waters, Edward, born 1584, and left I'.ngland for X'irginia in the same ship, the Scaventurc, which brought Sir Thomas Gates, as first governor of X^irginia under the second charter (1609) ; wrecked on the Bermudas ; went with the other castaways tC' Jamestown in 1610; in the same year re- turned with Sir George Somers to Bermuda; when Matthew Somers sailed for England he was one of the three who remained to hold the island for England and found an immense piece of ambergris ; member of the council of Bermuda ; left Bermuda for Vir- ginia in 1618 or 1619; married, probably about 1620. Grace O'Xiel ; taken prisoner with his wife l^y the Indians of Nansemond at the great massacre in 1622 ; escaped, and in January, 1625, was living at Blimt Point, James river, with his w^ife and two children, William and Margaret. He had the rank of captain, and in 1628 was appointed com- mander of the plantations in Elizabeth City county ; burgess in 1625. He is sometimes confounded with Robert Waters, left be- hind by Gates in the Bermudas, when he sailed in 1610 for Jamestown, and who killed a man.