West Ford 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/7/2022
Did George Washington Have an Enslaved Son?
West Ford founded the freedmen's town of Gum Springs near Mount Vernon in 1833. Today a preservation effort to protect the town is tied to a bitter conflict with Mount Vernon over whether West Ford was also the unacknowledged son of George Washington.
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