Overview

Location

Fairfax Co., VA

Date Constructed/ Founded

1790's (summer house and plantation established)

Associated Surnames

Brandt, Hammersly, Mason

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Gunston Hall (Fairfax Co., VA)

Associated Free Persons

• Captain Randolph Brandt - received the island (known as "My Lord's Island") in 1680 from Lord Baltimore; renamed it Barbadoes Island
• Miss Brandt - heiress of Capt. Randolph Brandt; wife of Francis Hammersly

• George Mason III - owner; purchased the island from Francis Hammersly in 1717; island was then known as Mason's Island
• George Mason - owner of Gunston Hall; son of George Mason III
• John Mason - owner; son of George Mason; inherited the island, then known as Analostan Island, in 1792

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• Variant names: My Lord's Island, Barbadoes Island, Mason's Island, Theodore Roosevelt Island

References

• Gunston Hall Plantation: Analostan Island. http://www.gunstonhall.org/landholdings/analostan_island.htm

Users Researching This Workplace

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