Rachel Warrington
Rachel Warrington (January 20, 1753–ca. 1815) was a woman who became embroiled in a scandal, bearing a son, Lewis, probably fathered by Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau in late eighteenth century Colonial Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia. There is an alternate theory that Louis-François-Bertrand du Pont d'Aubevoye de Lauberdière was Lewis's father. Rachel and her sister Camilla had been taken in by their aunt and uncle, Suzannah and Dr. George Riddell; both men lived in the Riddell household during the winter of 1781–1782.. Lewis had a notable career in the US Navy, becoming a commodore and later United States Secretary of the Navy. Early life Rachel Warrington was born on January 20, 1753 at Charles Parish in York, Virginia. She and her sister were orphaned at a young age, when their father Thomas Warrington, a minister in Hampton, Virginia, died in 1770. Thomas Warrington was ordained by the Church of England in 1747 and came to Colonial Virginia from England the same year. He was a minister at the Charles Parish in York, Virginia. With him were his wife, Elizabeth, and son Francis Spencer Warrington, who was born January 20, 1749, and baptized at the Charles Parish on Feb. 11,