The West family

The Alexandria Wests descend from John West (1632–1717) of Stafford County, Virginia, whose grandsons Hugh and John West Jr. operated a tobacco warehouse and ferry landing on the Potomac bluffs below Great Hunting Creek from the early 1730s. The landing was authorised by the Virginia Assembly as a public tobacco-inspection warehouse in 1732 and became the commercial seed of the town ^[1] Source 1 Powell, History of Old Alexandria, 1928 Book . The 1749 act establishing Alexandria directed the trustees to lay out the new town on the land “of Philip and John Alexander, Hugh West, and others,” and Hugh West sat with John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … and William Ramsay Person William Ramsay b. 1716 · d. 1785 Scottish-born merchant, one of the original trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and by local tradition the town's first postmaster and first lord mayor. His frame house on King Street … on the founding board of trustees.

Sybil West Carlyle Person Sybil West Carlyle Second wife of ; daughter of Hugh and Sybil (Harrison) West. Mother of , the fifteen-year-old cadet in Lee's Legion killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781. (1730s–1798), Hugh West’s cousin, married John Carlyle in 1763 as his second wife after the death of Sarah Fairfax Carlyle, and bore him George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle b. 1766 · d. 1781 Only surviving son of by his second wife ; inherited in 1780 at fourteen and was killed at fifteen at the Battle of Eutaw Springs as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee's Legion. (1766–1781), killed at fifteen as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee’s Legion at Eutaw Springs. Her Sybil West-Carlyle marriage is the principal genealogical link between the West and Carlyle lines ^[2] Source 2 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book . The Wests themselves do not anchor a surviving family seat in Old Town the way the Carlyles do at Carlyle House; their descendants dispersed across Fairfax, Loudoun, and the western counties through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The separate biography of West Ford Person West Ford b. 1784 · d. 1863 Man born enslaved on the estate of Bushrod Washington and later freed; a longtime manager at Mount Vernon whose descendants maintain an oral tradition of descent from the … — born enslaved in the wider Washington-West family circle and later manumitted at Mount Vernon — represents a parallel, racially distinct West-name lineage that intersects this family’s history through the Mount Vernon estate.