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Colonel Austin Brockenbrough, of "Bloomsbury," Westmoreland County, and Richmond county. Austin was a Colonel in the First Virginia Regiment with Washington during the French Indian Wars, he served under General Braddock. He owned a estate called "Crowley's" and Mulberry Island. It was said that the name of his home, "Bloomsbury," came from his grandmother's family which at one time, lived at Queen's square, Bloomsbury, in London.
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