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18th-century American landowners

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The list 18th-century American landowners includes Martha Washington, Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist), Marie Thérèse Metoyer, Eliza Lucas and Robert Carter I. The list consists of 50 members and 2 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Martha Washington
    First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
    Martha Washington
    Overview: Martha Washington (née Dandridge; June 13 [O.S. June 2] 1731 – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Although the title was not coined until ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1731
    Date of death: 22 May 1802
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: First Lady
    Gender: Female
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    American women landowners 16T
    A Woman of the Century 883T
    People from Mount Vernon, Virginia 20T
  • 2.

    Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)
    Virginia colonist
    Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)
    Overview: Colonel Thomas Lee (c.– November 14, 1750) was a planter and politician in colonial Virginia, and a member of the Lee family, a political dynasty. Lee became involved in politics in 1710, serving ...
    Date of birth: 1690
    Date of death: 14 November 1750
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Male
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    American slave owners 730T
    Virginia Governor's Council members 25T
    American landowners 66T
  • 3.

    Marie Thérèse Metoyer
    American planter
    Marie Thérèse Metoyer
    Overview: Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin (August 1742 – 1816) was notable as a free médecine, planter, slave owner and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later Natchitoches Parish) ...
    Date of birth: 1742
    Date of death: 1816
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Female
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    People of Louisiana (New France) 40T
    American people of Ewe descent 1T
    19th-century American businesswomen 131T
  • 4.

    Benjamin Banneker
    Free African-American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer
    Benjamin Banneker
    Overview: Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in ...
    Date of birth: 9 November 1731
    Date of death: 9 October 1806
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    18th-century American male writers 28T
    Benjamin Banneker 12T
    18th-century African-American people 3T
  • 5.

    Jacobus Swartwout
    American politician
    Jacobus Swartwout
    Overview: Jacobus Swartwout II (born 5 November 1734 in Wiccopee, Fishkill, Dutchess County, Province of New York; died 16 February 1827 in Swartwoutville, Dutchess, New York) was an early American landowner, s ...
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    19th-century American landowners 33T
    People from Fishkill, New York 16T
    American landowners 66T
  • 6.

    George Steptoe Washington
    American, Socialite
    George Steptoe Washington
    Overview: George Steptoe Washington (August 17, 1771 - January 10, 1809) was a planter, militia officer and nephew of the first President of the United States George Washington.
    Date of birth: 17 August 1771
    Date of death: 10 January 1809
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Male
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    Episcopalians from West Virginia 14T
    19th-century deaths from tuberculosis 789T
    American landowners 66T
  • 7.

    Robert Carter I
    American businessman and politician
    Robert Carter I
    Overview: Robert "King" Carter (4 August 1663 – 4 August 1732) was a merchant, planter and powerful politician in colonial Virginia. Born in Lancaster County, Carter eventually became one of the richest men in the ...
    Date of birth: 1663
    Date of death: 4 August 1732
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Male
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    British slave owners 199T
    American slave owners 936T
    Virginia Governor's Council members 28T
  • 8.

    Eliza Lucas
    American planter and agriculturalist (1722–1793)
    Overview: Elizabeth "Eliza" Lucas Pinckney (December 28, 1722 – May 27, 1793) transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation ...
    Date of birth: 1722
    Date of death: 1793
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    18th-century American women scientists 4T
    18th-century American businesswomen 28T
    American women landowners 16T
  • 9.

    John Threlkeld
    Mayor of Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States
    John Threlkeld
    Overview: John Threlkeld (1757 – 1830) was an American politician, farmer, and landowner who served as an alderman and mayor of Georgetown and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
    Date of birth: 1757
    Date of death: 1830
    Age: 72 (age at death)
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    Slave owners from the Thirteen Colonies 2T
    18th-century landowners 30T
    18th-century American politicians 728T
  • 10.

    Robert Peter
    Mayor of Georgetown, United States
    Overview: Robert Peter (July 22, 1726 – Nov 15, 1806) was an American politician, merchant, and landowner who served as the first mayor of Georgetown.
    Date of birth: 22 July 1726
    Date of death: 15 November 1806
    Age: 80 (age at death)
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    Arthur Smith (captain)
    Founder of Smithfield, Virginia (1680–1755)
    Overview: Arthur Smith IV (c.– 1755) was a British colonial landowner, politician, and captain who incorporated Smithfield, Virginia, served as one of the town's founding trustees, and briefly represented Isle of ...
    Date of death: 1755
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    Jonathan Bryan
    American patriot
    Overview: Jonathan Bryan (September 7, 1708 – March 9, 1788) was an American patriot originally from South Carolina but who moved Savannah, Georgia, where he assisted James Edward Oglethorpe in the foundation of ...
    Date of birth: 7 September 1708
    Date of death: 9 March 1788
    Age: 79 (age at death)
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  • 13.
    Overview: Elizabeth Bray Allen also known as Elizabeth Bray Allen Smith Stith (ca. 1692–by 22 February 1774) operated a large plantation after the death of her first husband, Arthur Allen. After the death of her ...
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    Hannah Lee Corbin
    American planter and feminist
    Hannah Lee Corbin
    Overview: Hannah Ludwell Lee Corbin (February 6, 1728 – c. October 7, 1782) was an American women's rights advocate and member of the Lee family in Virginia. A widow and an early convert from the Church of ...
    Date of birth: 6 February 1728
    Date of death: 7 October 1782
    Age: 54 (age at death)
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    Women slave owners 75T
    American slave owners 892T
    Former Anglicans 72T
  • 15.

    Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley
    18th-century American landowner and midwife
    Overview: Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley (c. 1695 – 1771) was an 18th-century American landowner and midwife, best known for claims that she had delivered over 3,000 children.
    Date of birth: 1695
    Date of death: 1771
    Age: 75 (age at death)
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    Overview: Col. Nicholas Meriwether (October 26, 1665 – 1744) was a wealthy land owner of Colony of Virginia.
    Date of birth: 26 October 1665
    Date of death: 1744
    Age: 78 (age at death)
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    Adolphus Philipse
    Landowner
    Adolphus Philipse
    Overview: Adolphus Philipse (1665–1750) was a wealthy landowner of Dutch descent in the Province of New York. In 1697 he purchased a large tract of land along the east bank of the Hudson River stretching all ...
    Date of birth: 1665
    Date of death: 1750
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Gender: Male
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    William Beverley
    18th-century American legislator, civil servant, planter and landowner
    Overview: William Beverley (1696–1756) was an 18th-century legislator, civil servant, planter and landowner in the Colony of Virginia. Born in Virginia, Beverley—the son of planter and historian Robert Beverley ...
    Date of birth: 1696
    Date of death: 1756
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
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    Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician)
    American slave owner and politician
    Overview: Isaac Parsons (January 27, 1752 – August 25, 1796) was an American slave owner, politician, and militia officer in the U.S. state of Virginia (now West Virginia). Parsons served as a member of the Virginia ...
    Date of birth: 27 January 1752
    Date of death: 25 August 1796
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Occupation: Politician
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    James Caudy
    American frontiersman, and landowner (1707-1784)
    Overview: James Caudy (1707 – March 15, 1784) was an American frontiersman, settler, and landowner in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of the Colony of Virginia—present-day West Virginia. Caudy was born in the ...
    Date of birth: 1707
    Date of death: 15 March 1784
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Drummer
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