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Anne Carlyle

Daughter of John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-born merchant, one of the founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what is now Fairfax Street. Carlyle was a … and sister of Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Daughter of ; her marriage to William Herbert transferred into the Herbert family, where her grandson was born in 1829. and George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle d. 1781 Son of ; inherited in 1780. Killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 1781) in the closing campaigns of the Revolutionary War. ; documented in the Carlyle House family records.
Colonial Era Matriarch

Biography


Anne Carlyle was a daughter of the Scottish merchant John Carlyle and grew up at 121 North Fairfax Street Place 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … in the years before the Revolution [1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Carlyle House Website . Detail about her life beyond the family record — her marriage, descendants, place of death — is sparse in the readily available sources; this entity is a research scaffold for the Carlyle House family-papers archive.

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    Wikipedia, "Carlyle House," accessed 2026.

    Website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_House →

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