William Hunter Cavendish

William Hunter Cavendish

William Hunter Cavendish (c. 1740- )

Rumoured to be sired out of wedlock by William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, he was a colonial pioneer born in Ireland from English stock in 1740, and journeyed to America in 1756 accompanied by his mother and half-sisters. Settling on the James River near Lexington, Virginia, he embarked on a career in the American colonies that included service in the Continental Army as a Quartermaster General, appointment to the Board of Visitors of Washington College, later Washington and Lee University, and election as Sheriff of Greenbrier County and to the Virginia Assembly (1802-1805). He raised three daughters, Mary, Jane, and Rebecca, and two sons, William, a lawyer and the first clerk of the court of Kanawha County, and Andrew, a farmer.


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