CHAPTER 4: 3 Washington Households in Jefferson County 1820 Forward by Jim Surkamp.

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STORY 4 – 3 WASHINGTON FAMILIES HERE – 1820 (begins at 8:53 within the longer video shown below) Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LJpJeIwFMw#t=8m53s

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Jasper Thompson’s Destiny Day September 6, 1906 by Monique Crippen-Hopkins and Jim Surkamp TRT: 2:53:14 (in 25 chapters) Video link: https://youtu.be/4LJpJeIwFMw

BEGIN CHAPTER 4 OF THE 25 CHAPTERS OR STORIES WITHIN THE ABOVE, LONGER VIDEO – THREE WASHINGTON HOUSEHOLDS

Many of the Thompsons worked first at Prospect Hill. But when young Richard Henry Lee Washington, the owner of the 885 acre parcel, with its little main house, died a young bachelor, the 885 acres was divided three ways.

His property was divided among his sister and two brothers. But we do have a little, printed invitation to one of the Fairfaxes to come to a party at Prospect Hill. It was a dancing party and it was called for twelve noon and since the house was diminutive, they must have danced outdoors on the lawn. – John A. Washington

It appears that, with the division of the remaining Prospect Hill, Solomon Thompson, who was about eight years old then, became a part of John A. & Jane Charlotte Washington’s household and farm at Blakeley.

References:

Monique Crippen-Hopkins My Journey: Breaking down the walls
genealogybreakingdownthewalls.blogspot.com 13 December 2013 Web. 20 January 2017.

Galtcho Geertsema – surveyor and compiler of near complete records of land transactions in the eastern Panhandle prior to 1800.

The Washingtons of Jefferson County
By John Augustine Washington, Family Historian, Interview August 3, 2001. (John Washington died in 2020)
justjefferson.com 21 March 2004 Web. 20 January 2017

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.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062493457;view=1up;seq=250226

Image Credits:

1. Image Credits 4 FINAL
2. 3 Washington Households in Jefferson County 1820 Forward FINAL
3. Forked Deer on Mandolin by Shana Aisenberg FINAL

5. Family Historian John A. Washington

CREDIT:
Jim Surkamp

7. Richard Henry Lee Washington (semblance only)

CREDIT:

Full Dress of a Gentleman, 1810. @Costume Institute of Fashion Plates, Met Museum
janeaustensworld.wordpress.com 7 September 2007 Web. 20 December 2016.
home page.

8. John A. Washington and plat of Richard Henry Lee Washington’s lands

CREDIT:
Jim Surkamp

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.

9. It was a dancing party and it was called for twelve noon and since the house was diminutive, they must have danced outdoors on the lawn. – John A. Washington

CREDIT:

quadrille_Prospect Hill
Members of the “Ton” dancing the Quadrille at Almack’s including, second from left, Sarah Villiers, Lady Jersey (1813)
Jane Austen Society of North America
jasna.org 11 November 1998 Web. 20 December 2016.

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CREDIT

Monique Crippen-Hopkins

12. The Thompsons & The Washingtons Montage FINAL

CREDIT:

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.

13. Blakeley Farm parcels