Mayor of Alexandria
William Herbert 1782–83
ALEXANDRIA LODGE NO. 39
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 1783-1788
WILLIAM HERBERT, William Herbert of Muckross was born in Ireland in 1743, emigrated to Virginia in 1773, and settled at Alexandria where he lived until his death in 1818 at the age of seventy five year.
He soon became associated with the best element at Alexandria, and was a vestryman of Christ Church in 1780, where his name is entered in the minutes of the vestry as "William Harbert." He was elected as president of the Alexandria Bank in 1798, and during the building of this bank the
funds were deposited in the Carlyle House which was then his home. He had married the daughter of John Carlyle, and in 1810 he was Mayor of the town. As a member of the Masonic Lodge here he attended the funeral services of General Washington. He was the first elected Secretary of Lodge No. 39, in December, 1783.
Messrs. William and Arthur Herbert, Sr., were his grandsons, and his great-grandson, Arthur Herbert, Jr., co-founded the firm of Burke and Herbert, bankers.
No family has made a greater impression on this community than the Herbert's. (Taken from Mrs. Powell's History of Old Alexandria, page 314)
George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington endorsed this account of his financial transactions with the prominent Alexandria merchant William Herbert. A frequent visitor to Mount Vernon, Herbert was an Irish immigrant who married Sarah Carlyle and later became the President of the Bank of Alexandria. Herbert signed this two page account and Washington endorsed it on the verso. The transactions recorded here date from March through July of 1775.
William Herbert 1782–83
ALEXANDRIA LODGE NO. 39
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 1783-1788
WILLIAM HERBERT, William Herbert of Muckross was born in Ireland in 1743, emigrated to Virginia in 1773, and settled at Alexandria where he lived until his death in 1818 at the age of seventy five year.
He soon became associated with the best element at Alexandria, and was a vestryman of Christ Church in 1780, where his name is entered in the minutes of the vestry as "William Harbert." He was elected as president of the Alexandria Bank in 1798, and during the building of this bank the
funds were deposited in the Carlyle House which was then his home. He had married the daughter of John Carlyle, and in 1810 he was Mayor of the town. As a member of the Masonic Lodge here he attended the funeral services of General Washington. He was the first elected Secretary of Lodge No. 39, in December, 1783.
Messrs. William and Arthur Herbert, Sr., were his grandsons, and his great-grandson, Arthur Herbert, Jr., co-founded the firm of Burke and Herbert, bankers.
No family has made a greater impression on this community than the Herbert's. (Taken from Mrs. Powell's History of Old Alexandria, page 314)
George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington endorsed this account of his financial transactions with the prominent Alexandria merchant William Herbert. A frequent visitor to Mount Vernon, Herbert was an Irish immigrant who married Sarah Carlyle and later became the President of the Bank of Alexandria. Herbert signed this two page account and Washington endorsed it on the verso. The transactions recorded here date from March through July of 1775.
Mayor of Alexandria
William Herbert 1782–83
ALEXANDRIA LODGE NO. 39
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 1783-1788
WILLIAM HERBERT, William Herbert of Muckross was born in Ireland in 1743, emigrated to Virginia in 1773, and settled at Alexandria where he lived until his death in 1818 at the age of seventy five year.
He soon became associated with the best element at Alexandria, and was a vestryman of Christ Church in 1780, where his name is entered in the minutes of the vestry as "William Harbert." He was elected as president of the Alexandria Bank in 1798, and during the building of this bank the
funds were deposited in the Carlyle House which was then his home. He had married the daughter of John Carlyle, and in 1810 he was Mayor of the town. As a member of the Masonic Lodge here he attended the funeral services of General Washington. He was the first elected Secretary of Lodge No. 39, in December, 1783.
Messrs. William and Arthur Herbert, Sr., were his grandsons, and his great-grandson, Arthur Herbert, Jr., co-founded the firm of Burke and Herbert, bankers.
No family has made a greater impression on this community than the Herbert's. (Taken from Mrs. Powell's History of Old Alexandria, page 314)
George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington endorsed this account of his financial transactions with the prominent Alexandria merchant William Herbert. A frequent visitor to Mount Vernon, Herbert was an Irish immigrant who married Sarah Carlyle and later became the President of the Bank of Alexandria. Herbert signed this two page account and Washington endorsed it on the verso. The transactions recorded here date from March through July of 1775.
William Herbert 1782–83
ALEXANDRIA LODGE NO. 39
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 1783-1788
WILLIAM HERBERT, William Herbert of Muckross was born in Ireland in 1743, emigrated to Virginia in 1773, and settled at Alexandria where he lived until his death in 1818 at the age of seventy five year.
He soon became associated with the best element at Alexandria, and was a vestryman of Christ Church in 1780, where his name is entered in the minutes of the vestry as "William Harbert." He was elected as president of the Alexandria Bank in 1798, and during the building of this bank the
funds were deposited in the Carlyle House which was then his home. He had married the daughter of John Carlyle, and in 1810 he was Mayor of the town. As a member of the Masonic Lodge here he attended the funeral services of General Washington. He was the first elected Secretary of Lodge No. 39, in December, 1783.
Messrs. William and Arthur Herbert, Sr., were his grandsons, and his great-grandson, Arthur Herbert, Jr., co-founded the firm of Burke and Herbert, bankers.
No family has made a greater impression on this community than the Herbert's. (Taken from Mrs. Powell's History of Old Alexandria, page 314)
George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington endorsed this account of his financial transactions with the prominent Alexandria merchant William Herbert. A frequent visitor to Mount Vernon, Herbert was an Irish immigrant who married Sarah Carlyle and later became the President of the Bank of Alexandria. Herbert signed this two page account and Washington endorsed it on the verso. The transactions recorded here date from March through July of 1775.
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Herbert, William d. 1818 Feb 24 in his (73rd) yr born in Ireland, late bank president of Alexandria, S.A.R. (Sons of the American Revolution)
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