John Pratt Hungerford (1761-1833)

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John Pratt Hungerford, born nearby, was an officer in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He represented this area in the Virginia General Assembly for many years and served in the United States House of Representatives during the 1810s. As a brigadier general in the Virginia militia, he defended the Northern Neck during repeated British raids in the summer of 1814. Militiamen under his command attempted to destroy British naval ships carrying looted goods away from Alexandria on the Potomac River in Sept. 1814. Hungerford died on 21 Dec. 1833 at Twiford, his nearby plantation, and is buried one mile east of here.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

John H. Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 1775-1783, 404. Pension application of John P. Hungerford, 1 Oct. 1832 Stuart L. Butler, Defending the Old Dominion: Virginia and Its Militia in the War of 1812 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2013). Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 10: 362-363, 367-370. Wesley Gant, “The Fall of Washington and the Battle of White House Landing,” https://www.nps.gov/fowa/learn/historyculture/the-fall-of-fort-washington-and-the-battle-of-white-house-landing.htm Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Cynthia Miller Leonard, ed., The General Assembly of Virginia (1978)