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About Mary Willing Byrd
Mary Willing Byrd was an American planter. At twenty years of age, she became the step-mother of five children and managed the family and household at Westover Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia beginning her second year of marriage. Together Byrd and her husband, William Byrd III, had ten more children before he committed suicide in 1777. She determined what property to hold on to and what to sell of what she inherited so that she could pay off debts, preserve Westover Plantation, and retain some land for the Byrd children.
Everything about Mary Willing Byrd →- Occupation
- land owner
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 10, 1740
- Died
- 1814, March 24, 1814