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ESKRIDGE Family: George Eskridge of Sandy Point, Westmoreland County, Virginia played a prominent role in the life of his community. He was a lawyer, and Burgess for the county. He became legal guardian in 1720 to Mary Ball, mother of George Washington. According to tradition, Mary (Ball) Washington named her son "George" as a tribute to her guardian. By his second wife Elizabeth Vaulx, George Eskridge was the grandfather of Anne Aylett, the wife of Richard Henry Lee. The sister, Mary Aylett married Thomas Ludwell Lee. Suggested Reading: Willa Mac Duncan Coulter, "Some Families of Revolutionary War Patriots from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Kentucky", (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1993).
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