People
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| Name | Birth | Death | Occupation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packett (Packet), John | John Packett was employed by GW between 1789 and 1791. | |||
| Page, Mann | 1718 | Mann Page (b. 1718) of Rosewell in Gloucester County, Va., was an owner of stock in the Dismal Swamp Company. He acquired the one-half share of the stock from Robert Burwell. Page later resided at ... Read More | ||
| Palmer, Jonathan | In July 1768 Jonathan Palmer was hired by the day as a harvester of hay and grain. However, on 30 Aug. 1768 GW agreed with Palmer for him “to come and Work with my Carpenters; either at their Trade— ... Read More | |||
| Parish Collection | For more information about parishes in colonial Virginia, see: Bond, E. L. The Parish in Colonial Virginia. (2016, November 14). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www. ... Read More | |||
| Parker, William | In the 1760s William Parker, a planter and justice of the peace, ran an ordinary in his house in Caroline County, Virginia. | |||
| Parkinson, Richard | ||||
| Pasteur, William | 1791 | Dr. William Pasteur (d. 1791), a son of Swiss immigrant Dr. Jean Pasteur, opened an apothecary shop on the Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Va., in 1759. In 1775 he entered into a ... Read More | ||
| Patterson, John | 1768 | John Patterson (d. 1768) was the joiner and master carpenter who did extensive work on the house at Mount Vernon in the summer and early fall of 1758. | ||
| Paul, James | ||||
| Payne, Edward | Edward Payne served with GW as a vestryman of Truro Parish 1765–74. When Payne contracted with the parish in 1766 to build a chapel of ease (later called Payne’s Church) for the parishioners in the ... Read More | |||
| Payne, Virtinda | ||||
| Peake, Humphrey | 1733 | 1785 | Humphrey Peake (1733–1785), who inherited Willow Spring from his father, William Peake (d. 1761), was a neighbor and fox-hunting companion of GW and a frequent visitor to Mount Vernon. Peake lived ... Read More | |
| Pearson, Milkey (Milkah) Trammell | Milkey (Milkah) Trammell Pearson was the estranged wife of Simon Pearson. | |||
| Pearson, Simon | c. 1738 | 1797 | Simon Pearson (c.1738–1797) of Fairfax County, Virginia, sold land to GW. | |
| Pearson, William | ||||
| Pendleton, Philip | 1752 | 1802 | Philip Pendleton (1752–1802), an attorney, agreed with GW in June 1771 to buy 180 acres of GW’s Bullskin plantation “for £400 the Money to be paid in two years with Int[eres]t from the 25th. of next ... Read More | |
| Peterson & Taylor (firm) | Peterson & Taylor was a firm in Alexandria, Virginia. | |||
| Peterson, William | William Peterson leased land from GW. | |||
| Petit (Pettitt), Thomas | Thomas Petit rented a Mount Vernon quarter from GW in 1759 and 1760, after which he disappears from GW’s records. | |||
| Pettit, James | ||||
| Posey, John | John Posey was a captain of the 2d company of artificers in the 2d Virginia Regiment in the latter 1750s. Posey, whose home, Rover’s Delight, stood near the Potomac River about a mile southwest of ... Read More |
