George Braxton Jr. (1734–1761) was a merchant, planter, and politician in King and Queen County, which he represented in the House of Burgesses for at least two terms.
Many of his cousins would also serve in the House of Burgesses, and hold high offices in the colony, as well as like his brother Carter Braxton become patriots for independence.
His father was the son of Elizabeth Pallin, his grandfather's first wife and had been educated locally, then traveled to Williamsburg where he was a student at the College of William and Mary in 1720.
[5] Because neither boy had reached legal age when the two older men named George Braxton died, Speaker John Robinson (the colony's most powerful politician at the time), and their scholarly merchant neighbor Humphrey Hill served as guardians for both this boy (who inherited Newington and various lands in King and Queen and Essex County) and his brother Carter Braxton (who inherited 25,00 acres of land in Orange and Albemarle Counties to the west).
[14] However, the French and Indian War depressed tobacco prices, so he tried to grow indigo as a second cash crop, but he also spent money on racehorses as well as a landscape gardener.
Neither older Braxton was alive during two extended sessions sometimes incorrectly attributed to him, so King and Queen county voters at least twice elected this man as a burgess.