Washington

WASHINGTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (18051868). Alexander Hamilton Washington, planter, lawyer, Indian agent, and Confederate Army officer, was born on March 5, 1805, the son of Warner and Sarah (Rootes) Washington, Jr., at Audley, a farm near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. His great-grandfather was Col. John Washington, an uncle of George Washington. Washington grew up in Clarke County, worked on his father's farms, and later helped to manage the plantation, Llewellyn, which his father purchased in October 1818. About 1838 he moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to practice law. There he lived with his sister, Mary Herbert Beazley, and her family. In 1840 A. G. A. Beazley, Mary's husband, gave Washington money and land to invest for the family in Texas. When Washington exchanged this property for the William G. Logan league, now in San Jacinto County, he took the title in his own name with the intention of giving the property to his sister at his death. He made a will to that effect on May 19, 1860.