Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
From OUT OF THE PAST from the archives of the Winchester Star published 4 Dec 2023
The Holmes Ginn farm, known as "Buena Vista," in Clarke County has been sold to B.B.Jones, the rich horseman who owns "Audley," adjoining the Ginn place.
The Ginn farm contains about 197 acres. The consideration was around $30,000.
"Buena Vista" was originally part of the old "Audley" estate, owned many years ago by the late Col. Fielding Lewis and once the home of Nellie Parke Custis.
Nov 28, 1923
The famous old Clarke County farm known as "Clay Hill," where for many years Prof. William Whiting conducted the noted Clay Hill Academy has been sold by Hugh Hughes of Dallas, Texas, to George H. Burwell Jr. The farm contains 262 acres. The consideration was $28000.
"Clay Hill" was owned by Mr Burwell's great grandfather, Mr. Whiting, who built the handsome old colonial mansion that occupies a commanding site on the farm.
Nov. 28, 1923
Compiled by Jim Moyer 12/04/23, updated 12/11/2023
putting this in February 1, 2016 which is a catch all area for all times in history
Notes for further reorganizing
Here estate in Clarke Co got sold 100 years ago 12/04/1923el
Woodland
Fairfield
59 Fairfield Lane Berryville VA is the address, but this is nearer to Gaylord VA.
longitude latitude 39.18394, -77.9358
This house is being auctioned May 25, 2017.
Google Car gets only as close as the entrance:
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George Washington's cousin Warner Washington lived there maybe since 1768 or the 1770s.
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Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner begot Augustine Washington the father of GW but Augustine is also brother to John Washington who married Catherine who begot Warner Washington Sr.
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So Warner is the son to Washington's father's brother.
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Warner Washington Sr - not sure on dates but he was older than GW by at least a decade.
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This link state 1715? to 1791
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Founders Online states 1722–1790
from wikipedia
Nelly was a daughter of John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, who married George Washington in 1759. She was also the granddaughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, an illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, whose mother may have been a granddaughter of George I. He was certainly descended from Charles II through the king's daughter by Barbara Villiers, Charlotte FitzRoy. Nelly was most likely born at Mount Airy, her maternal grandfather's estate in Prince George's County, Maryland, although local tradition holds that she was born at Abingdon, her father's estate in Arlington, Virginia (now the site of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport).
Following the premature death of their father John Parke Custis in 1781, Nelly and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, were placed under the guardianship of the Washingtons and grew up at Mount Vernon, although they visited their mother, stepfather David Stuart and older sisters at Abington and later at Dr. Stuart's estates in Fairfax County.
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All correspondence between the older Warner Washington Sr and the younger George Washington:
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From Founders Online.
Footnotes to a letter Warner Washington writes George Washington 7 August 1784
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1. Since the early 1770s Warner Washington, Sr. (1722–1790), had been living at Fairfield near the line between Frederick and Berkeley counties in that part of Frederick County later to become Clark County. Henry Whiting’s sister Mary was married to Warner Washington, Jr. (1751–1829). John Ariss, who requested in his will, probated in 1800, that he be buried in the graveyard at Fairfield, may have been the builder of the house for Warner Washington.
2. GW saw both Warner Washington and Henry Whiting while at Charles Washington’s house in Berkeley County on 3–4 September. See Diaries, 4:4–8. For Whiting’s payment of his debt, see John Ariss to GW, 5 Aug., n. 1, and GW to Ariss, 8 Aug., n.3.
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From Washington Post article 5/4/2017
Warner Washington a cousin to George Washington lived in Fairfield Estates in Berryville VA
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The 35-acre estate at 159 Fairfield Lane in Berryville, Va., which has ties to George Washington’s family, will be auctioned on May 25. (TruPlace)
The opportunity to own a pre-Revolutionary War estate with ties to George Washington is rare. In its nearly 250 years, the Fairfield estate in Berryville, Va., has been owned by just three families, and now the property will be auctioned to the highest bidder.
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Built about 1768 by Washington’s first cousin, Warner Washington, the main house now has more than 8,000 square feet of living space with seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, eight fireplaces and some of the original Colonial cabinetry and woodwork. An English basement has a brick fireplace, a beamed ceiling and a bar.
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The 35-acre estate includes two rental cottages, a summer cabin, a smokehouse, a garage/workshop and a greenhouse. The grounds include a stream, stone walls, a stone bridge, boxwoods, mature trees and four levels of terraces. About 25 percent of the property is used to produce hay.
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Fairfield’s land was surveyed by George Washington, and he and his family were visitors to the estate. Anne Lee Page, the sister of Virginia Gov. Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee and aunt of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was the second owner. Since the estate was purchased by John Richardson in 1830, the Georgian-style stone manor has remained with the same family.
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[Current owners feel the history in LBJ’s former home]
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The property is at 159 Fairfield Lane in Berryville in Clarke County, approximately 75 minutes from the District.
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The buyer will need to pay a deposit of 10 percent of the winning bid or a minimum of $50,000 in guaranteed funds. The owners require a 30-day closing and are selling the house in an as-is condition. There is an undisclosed minimum bid required.
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Previews of the property and the grounds will take place Sunday as well as on May 13 and 21 from 1 to 3 p.m. The auction will take place May 25 at noon.
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For more information, click here or contact Jeff Stein of Tranzon Auction at 888-621-2110 or 703-539-8111.
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159 Fairfield Lane in Berryville in Clarke County
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A discussion is in this article on Conotocarius, GW's nickname, but his grandfather and genealogy is in there.
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