Col. George CARRINGTON

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  General Notes:

George Carrington Sr. (Jody's 6th Great Grand Father) was in the Virginia General Assembly, and was a soldier of the Revolution

George Carrington was baptized 8 July 1711 in St. Philip’s Parish in Barbados. In 1723 he emigrated to Virginia with his half-sister Ann Carrington Mayo, the Mayo brothers, and Joseph Hooper. He ran a store for Joseph. His home “Boston Hill” in Goochland County, later Cumberland County, was a 5,650-acre tobacco plantation Carrington patented on 1 March 1743/4 . The massive property encompassed 2,850 acres William Mayo had in 1731 and gave to Carrington. A surveyor and planter, Carrington obtained patents for more than 28,000 acres of frontier land. George Carrington Sr. held many public offices in Virginia including a vestryman of Southam Parish, presiding justice of the peace, county militia lieutenant, county surveyor, sheriff, coroner, a member of the House of Burgesses (1745 — 65), and House of Delegates (1778 — 83). A staunch patriot and firm advocate of independence, he was elected chairman and treasurer of the Cumberland County Committee of Safety. Throughout the Revolutionary War he was the highest civil and military authority in Cumberland County. George Carrington and his wife, Ann, died within eight days of each other. He died 7 February 1785 at seventy-four years of age and she on 15 February 1785 at seventy-three years. Both were buried at “Boston Hill.” George had not completed a will before he died. An inventory of his estate dated 4 March 1785 valued his personal estate at £1,371:6:0. Their children were all born at “Boston Hill.”

George married Ann MAYO, daughter of Maj. William MAYO and Frances GOULD, on 26 Jun 1732 in Cumberland, VA. (Ann MAYO was born in 1712 in Barbados, Caribbean and died on 15 Feb 1785.)