"Immigrant George" Hume

A plaque located the right side of the narthax in the St. George Episcopal Church Cemetery in Fredericksburg honors George.  It reads:  

• In Memory of George Hume second but only son with issue of Sir George Hume of Wedderburn, Baronet
• Born at Wedderburn Castle, Scotland 1698
• Died in Culpeper County, Virginia 1760
• Served in his father's command in the Rising for King James VIII & III 1715.
• Captured at Preston, England, imprisoned in the Marshall sea but permitted to come to Virginia, 1721.
• Officer of the colonial militia, 1729, Crown Surveyor for Spotsylvania, Orange and Frederick counties.  From him, George Washington learned surveying. 
• By Act of the General Assembly, he Laid out the Town of Fredericksburg, 1727.
• Vestryman of this parish, and, in 1733, Planned the Church. 
• His son, Captain Francis Hume, was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Virginia instituted in Fredericksburg, 1783.[23]

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References

• Memorial To George Hume, Esquire, Crown Surveyor of Virginia And Washingtons Teacher of Surveying, With Notes On His Life by Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume, M. C., United States Army. Pages 18 & 19. Information reprinted from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Richmond, Virginia; Vol XXI, No. 1, July 1939, Pages 6 - 54 & Vol XXI, No. 2, October 1939, Pages 70-120.
• http://brianreeves.com/Hume%20George/George%20Hume.htm
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hume/tree/1339.htm
• https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getpe... Notes: He was immigrated in Virginia, USA.
• [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Home03.
• [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Home05.
• Mentioned in the Book: Genealogies of Virginia Families, Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneological Magazine, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1981, p. 357
• https://www.ourrelatives.davenportz.com/ps05/ps05_031.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75619518/george-hume
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hume-163