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VIDEO VERSION 2 WITH VOICE TRACK, CLOSED CAPTIONING & MODIFIED CONTENT – START: 3:56
BEGIN CHAPTER 2 – PROSPECT HILL & THREE BROTHERS WASHINGTON
Many of The Thompsons worked for the last three Washingtons who owned Mt. Vernon, who also had “a personal home” in Jefferson County.
The handed-down family’s records of Monique Crippen-Hopkins state: “The Thompsons were all slaves of the Washingtons down to Jasper Thompson.”
Most of the time they worked at enhancing the lands and homes of the Washington family members at their homes in Jefferson County.
Many of the Thompsons worked in the beginning on the Jefferson County lands of just one of three brothers of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington – Richard Henry Lee Washington
The will of John Augustine, their grandfather, set out that his 2720 acre property in today’s Jefferson County would be divided among his three grandsons incrementally as each one turned twenty-one. They were born a year apart.
Richard Henry Lee Washington, whose then deceased mother was the daughter of Richard Henry Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, turned twenty-one in 1809, triggering the division of his estate the following year by John Washington’s surviving widow Hannah Bushrod Washington.
References:
Monique Crippen–Hopkins
Galtcho Geertsema
John Augustine Washington
Jefferson County Clerk:
Plat of the partition and division of lands of Hannah Washington, deceased, showing the redivision of Parcel #2 containting respectively 892 acres and 942 acres. Jefferson County Clerk, Deed Room, Charles Town, WV.
documents.jeffersoncountywv.org 10 October 2014 Web. 20 October 2016.
Plat number 28 Deed Book 11, Page 30 August 13, 1818
Plat of the partition and division of the lands of Richard H. L. Washington, Lot #1, 324 acres, conveyed to Bushrod Washington; Lot #2, 286 acres, conveyed to Herbert, and, Lot #3, 274 acres, conveyed to John A. Washington.
Jefferson County Clerk, Deed Room, Charles Town, WV.
documents.jeffersoncountywv.org 10 October 2014 Web. 20 October 2016.
Solomon Thompson, Jr. Thompson Collection
University of Kansas Libraries
Thompson Family Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 510, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
etext.ku.edu 12 January 2010 Web. 20 December 2016.
Blakeley
Wayland, John W. (1944). “The Washingtons and their Homes.” McClure Printing Company: Staunton, VA. hathitrust.org 26 August 2015 Web. 20 September 2016. p. 226.
Image Credits: (includes images in sequence from the video)
1. Image Credits 2: FINAL
2. Prospect Hill & Three Brothers Washington FINAL
3. Music by Cam Millar FINAL
4. The Thompsons were all slaves of the Washingtons down to Jasper Thompson, who died in 1906. FINAL
5. Mostly they worked at the farms of three brothers from 1810 to 1844, when Jasper was born. FINAL
6. The three brothers were the children of Corbin, George Washington’s nephew, and Hannah Bushrod Washington. FINAL
7. They were John Augustine, Bushrod Corbin and Richard Henry Lee Washington. FINAL
8. The three brothers each began building an adjacent home in today’s Jefferson county, called Blakeley, Claymont, and Prospect Hill, respectively. FINAL
9. Jasper’s father – Solomon Thompson (Monique) FINAL
10. I actually have a picture of Solomon. (Solomon) FINAL
CREDIT
Solomon Thompson Sr. – Monique Crippen-Hopkins
11. The handed-down family’s records of Monique Crippen-Hopkins state: “The Thompsons were all slaves of the Washingtons down to Jasper Thompson.” (records) FINAL
CREDIT
Solomon Thompson, Jr. Thompson Collection
University of Kansas Libraries
Thompson Family Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 510, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
etext.ku.edu 12 January 2010 Web. 20 December 2016.
12. Most of the time they worked at enhancing the lands and homes of the Washington family members at their homes in Jefferson County. FINAL
CREDIT
Life of George Washington by Junius Stearns loc.gov 16 June 1997 Web. 20 September 2016.
13. TITLE Many of The Thompsons worked for the last three Washingtons who owned Mt. Vernon, who also had “a personal home” in Jefferson County. (Steptoe) FINAL
CREDIT
Tom Steptoe
14. John Augustine Washington 1736-1787 FINAL
findagrave.com 2 December 1998 Web. 13 December 2011.
15. TITLE When John Augustine, the father, died in 1787, he left his 2720 acre land called Prospect Hill to his wife, Hannah Bushrod Washington. FINAL
16. TITLE In 1810 Hannah Bushrod divided up the land three ways and the eldest brother, Richard, settled his portion, still called Prospect Hill. FINAL
17. Parcels combining to be the 2720-acre estate called Prospect Hill FINAL
CREDIT:
Galtcho Geertsema, Google Maps
18. Richard Henry Lee, father to Richard Henry Lee Washington’s mother FINAL
CREDIT
The official portrait of Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington(1762-1829)
wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 1 October 2016. Photo taken by Billy Hathon 7-29-2011
19. Hannah Bushrod Washington’s Division of Estates of 2720-acre Prospect Hill Deed Book 6, pp. 292-293 Feb.12 1810 Jefferson County Clerk FINAL
CREDIT:
Plat number 12 Deed Book 6, Page 292 February 13, 1810
Plat of the partition and division of lands of Hannah Washington, deceased, showing the redivision of Parcel #2 containting respectively 892 acres and 942 acres. Jefferson County Clerk, Deed Room, Charles Town, WV.
documents.jeffersoncountywv.org 10 October 2014 Web. 20 October 2016.
20. Hannah Bushrod Washington 1738-1801 FINAL
CREDIT
Wayland, John, The Washingtons and Their Homes.
babel.hathitrust.org 26 August 2015 Web. 20 September 2016. p. 112.
Hannah Bushrod Washington
geni.com 30 November 2013 Web. 1 October 2016. Managed by: Holly Dianne Faulkner
21. Richard Henry Lee Washington’s original 885 acres taken from the 2720 acre Prospect Hill when he reached maturity. FINAL
CREDIT:
silhouette of young man “Richard Henry Lee Washington” (semblance only)
1335 Studio of John Miers – early 1800s
Unknown man
Silhouette painted on plaster
Early 1800s
Trade Label No. 11
Painted by John Field. The plaster slab has been cut to fit the frame, which is not original.
profilesofthepast.org.uk 22 August 2013 Web. 20 December 2016.
Plat number 28 Deed Book 11, Page 30 August 13, 1818
Plat of the partition and division of the lands of Richard H. L. Washington, Lot #1, 324 acres, conveyed to Bushrod Washington; Lot #2, 286 acres, conveyed to Herbert, and, Lot #3, 274 acres, conveyed to John A. Washington.
Jefferson County Clerk, Deed Room, Charles Town, WV.
documents.jeffersoncountywv.org 10 October 2014 Web. 20 October 2016.
Chapter 3: Click Here https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/chapter-3-jasper-thompsons-earliest-ancestors-by-jim-surkamp/