Charles Hansford, born in 1759 and died in 1850, enlisted in Virginia in 1775 and served six months, then enlisted again in 1777 and was discharged in nine months before running away and going to sea as a privateer in Virginia's Navy during the American Revolution. He sailed off the eastern coast of U.S., the West Indies, and Spain, and was captured three times by the British. During a three-month confinement on the prison ship Jersey, nicknamed "Hell Afloat," only he and one other of 36 prisoners survived. He was buried northwest of here on Mayo Hill, Scotts Bridge Road.