1. William Fitzhugh was an American planter, legislator and patriot during the American Revolutionary War who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress for Virginia in 1779, as well as many terms in the House of Burgesses and both houses of the Virginia General Assembly following the Commonwealth's formation.
William Fitzhugh's family traced its descent from Bardolph, Lord of Ravensworth in Richmondshire in the time of William the Conqueror.
William Fitzhugh established "Bedford" plantation as his family's seat and by the time he died in 1701, owned 54,000 acres mostly in the Northern Neck of Virginia, most of which this man inherited.
William Fitzhugh's son, served as a burgess before his death in 1714.
William Fitzhugh lost an eye in a childhood accident, hit by one of his Harrison stepbrothers with a horse riding crop.
William Fitzhugh married Ann Bolling Randolph, daughter of Peter Randolph and wife Lucy Bolling and descended from the First Families of Virginia.
William Fitzhugh built Chatham Manor on property in Stafford County across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and completed it in 1771 after three years of construction.
William Fitzhugh was the last person that Washington visited outside of Mount Vernon before his death.
Henry William Fitzhugh having died, William Fitzhugh acquired much of his estate in Fairfax County from his heirs.
In 1796 William Fitzhugh built another mansion, that he called Ravensworth.
William Fitzhugh first served as a legislator when Virginia's General Assembly consisted solely of the House of Burgesses.
William Fitzhugh was one of two part-time representatives from King George County, and served alongside Joseph Jones between 1772 and 1775.
William Fitzhugh represented Stafford County as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates beginning in 1777.
In 1797, William Fitzhugh was a candidate in Virginia's 18th congressional district.
William Fitzhugh was a presidential elector for the 1789 election from Westmoreland District.
William Fitzhugh died in 1809 at the age of 69, leaving behind the three of his children who survived to adulthood.
William Fitzhugh was initially buried at Ravensworth, which his son William Henry Fitzhugh inherited, but when the mansion was destroyed, his remains and gravestone were moved to historic Pohick Church cemetery in Lorton.
William Fitzhugh gave the "Eagle's Nest" and "Somerset" plantations in King George County to his nephews William F Grymes, Benjamin Grymes and Geeorge N Grymes.