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Washington, the father of our Washington was A^rn at Bridge’s Creek in 1694. l¥e (vas twice married: first (April 20, 1715) to Jane, daughter of Caleb Butler, Esq., of Westmoreland County, by whom he had four children, of whom only two, Laurence and Augustine, survived the years of childhood; their mother died November 24, 1728 and was interred near the remains of Col. Washington, at Bridge’s Creek. On the 6 of March 1730, he married in second nuptials Mary, daughter of Colonel Ball, the belle of the Northern Neck. By her he had four sons, George, Samuel, John Augustine, and Charles; andtwo daughters, Elizabeth, or Betty as Mildred, who died in infancy, she was commonly called, and
George, the eldest, the American soldier, statesman and patriot, was born 22nd February, in the I old Washington homestead .on1 Bridge’s Creek. .
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