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Bailey Washington Jr. (December 12, 1753 – June 14, 1814) was an American planter and legislator who served two terms as a delegate from Stafford County in the Virginia House of Delegates and many years as local justice of the peace.

Early and family life

Bailey Washington Jr. was the third son born to Bailey Washington Sr. and his wife, the former Catherine Storke. His father also served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as operated plantations using enslaved labor. His elder brothers Henry Washington (1749-1825), also served in the House of Delegates representing Prince William County but financial troubles prompted moves to Shelbyville, Kentucky and eventually what became Limestone County, Alabama) and William Washington (1752-1810; a war hero who also served in the Virginia General Assembly), although John Washington (b.1756 probably died as a child). His sisters Elizabeth Washington Storke (1758-circa 1798) and Mary Butler Washington Peyton (1760-1822) married local planters.

Career

Bailey Washington farmed using enslaved labor. In the 1810 federal census, he owned 45 enslaved people. Stafford County voters twice elected him to the Virginia House of Delegates, although one source believes that he not his father also served in 1780.

Death and legacy

Bailey Washington was survived by his wife Euphan Curle Wallace (1764-1845), the step daughter of Thomson Mason. Although he received Windsor Farms from his father in 1784, it was held by his youngest sister, Mary, who had married Dr. Valentine Peyton and lived at his "Tusculum" estate in Stafford County, not long after their father's death. In 1846, Jefferson Spindle (who became a Stafford magistrate like this man's father) purchased Windsor Forest from Charles Prosser Moncure, and operated a school there for several years before the American Civil War. The long-vanished Stafford County estate (now within Quantico Marine Corps reservation) is now memorialized as a real estate subdivision name.

References

1. Glenn, Justin (2014). The Washingtons: A Family History; Vol.1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-1-61121-233-4.
2. Glenn p. 50
3. 1810 U.S. federal census for Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia p. 15 of 33
4. Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p. 155, 166
5. Glenn p. 50
6. Glenn p. 126
7. "Jefferson Spindle (C.1804-1861)". 13 May 2017.

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First generation	Lawrence Washington (1602–1652)	Coat of arms of the Washington family
Second generation	John Washington
Third generation	Lawrence Washington (1659–1698)
Fourth generation	Augustine Washington Bailey Washington
Fifth generation	Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) Augustine Washington Jr. George Washington Elizabeth Washington Lewis Samuel Washington John Augustine Washington Charles Washington Henry Washington William Washington Bailey Washington Jr. Lund Washington
Sixth generation	William Augustine Washington Bushrod Washington George Steptoe Washington Lawrence Augustine Washington George William Washington
Seventh generation	John Thornton Augustine Washington George Corbin Washington Bushrod C. Washington Peter Grayson Washington
Eighth generation	Lawrence Berry Washington Lewis Washington Benjamin Franklin Washington William D. Washington Eugenia Washington
Tenth generation	W. Selden Washington
Washington family residences Abingdon Arlington House Beall-Air Blakeley Cedar Lawn Claymont Court Fairfield Ferry Farm George Washington Birthplace National Monument Happy Retreat Harewood Kenmore Mary Washington House Mount Vernon Richwood Hall Ridgedale Rising Sun Tavern River Farm Sulgrave Washington Old Hall

• 1753 births
• 1814 deaths
• American planters
• Members of the Virginia House of Delegates
• People from Stafford County, Virginia
• 18th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly