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===19th century and earlier=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * Lewis Craig (brother of [[Elijah Craig]]), [[Baptist]] preacher imprisoned for religious freedom issues before the [[American Revolution]], leader of [[The Travelling Church]] that migrated to Kentucky (see [[History of Baptists in Kentucky]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19671118&id=uc1NAAAAIBAJ&pg=6038,4648029 |title=For Area Baptists: The First Hundred Years Were the Hardest |newspaper=The Free Lance-Star |date=November 8, 1967 |page=A-3 |access-date=July 1, 2016 |volume=83 |number=272 |department=Town & County }}</ref> * [[Henry Crist]], former [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] from [[Kentucky]]<ref>{{CongBio|C000910|inline=yes}}</ref> * [[Maria I. Johnston]], author and editor<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Maria_I._Johnston |year=1893 |pages=423β24 |publisher=[[Charles Wells Moulton]] |chapter=JOHNSTON, Mrs. Maria I. }} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> * [[John Paul Jones]], American naval commander<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-paul-jones-wins-in-english-waters |title=John Paul Jones wins in English waters |access-date=April 18, 2017 |website=history.com |publisher=A&E Television Networks |quote=lived for a time in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where his brother had a business }}</ref> * [[Fielding Lewis]], brother-in-law of George Washington<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lewis_Fielding_1725-1781_or_1782 |title=Fielding Lewis (1725β1781 or 1782) |website=encyclopediavirginia.org |publisher=Virginia Foundation for the Humanities |access-date=April 18, 2017 |quote=he moved to Fredericksburg in the 1740s }}</ref> * [[Elizabeth Washington Lewis|Elizabeth "Betty" Washington]], sister of George Washington<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kenmore.org/genealogy/lewis/betty_lewis.html |title=Betty Washington Lewis |publisher=The George Washington Foundation |access-date=April 18, 2017 |quote=Upon her marriage, Betty moved into a large brick house in Fredericksburg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416072431/http://kenmore.org/genealogy/lewis/betty_lewis.html |archive-date=April 16, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Hugh Mercer]], soldier and physician<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hugh-mercer-dies-from-wounds-received-in-battle-of-princeton |title=Hugh Mercer dies from wounds received in Battle of Princeton |access-date=April 18, 2017 |website=history.com |publisher=A&E Television Networks |quote=Mercer worked as an apothecary and practiced medicine in Fredericksburg }}</ref> * [[James Monroe]], fifth President of the United States<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umw.edu/jamesmonroemuseum/default.php |title=James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library | James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library Home Page |publisher=Umw.edu |access-date=April 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527122302/http://www.umw.edu/jamesmonroemuseum/default.php |archive-date=May 27, 2010 }}</ref> * [[Margaret Prior]] (1773β1842), American humanitarian, missionary, moral reform worker, writer * [[Augustine Washington]], father of George Washington<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/augustine.html |title=Augustine Washington |publisher=The George Washington Foundation |website=kenmore.org |access-date=April 18, 2017 |quote=In 1738, a 150-acre property just across the Rappahannock River from the fledgling town of Fredericksburg ... was sold ... to Augustine who moved the family there |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410072157/http://www.kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/augustine.html |archive-date=April 10, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[George Washington]], first President of the United States, leader of the [[American Revolutionary War]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Freeman |first=Douglas Southall |title=George Washington, a Biography|year=1948|publisher=Scribner |location=New York|oclc=732644234 |author-link=Douglas Southall Freeman |volume=v.7}}{{rp|1:15β72}}</ref> * [[Mary Ball Washington]], mother of George Washington<ref>''George Washington: A Life'' by Willard Stearne Randall (1997). New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. page 440. {{ISBN|0-8050-5992-X}}</ref> * [[George Weedon]], brigadier general in the Continental Army<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank E. Grizzard|title=George Washington: A Biographical Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RioTGCygpT8C&pg=PA346|year=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-082-6|pages=346β}}</ref> }}
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