Jerdone Castle is a plantation located in Bumpass, Louisa County, Virginia, originally established c. 1742.

In addition to expanding his original landholdings and building a residence, Jerdone operated stores, mills, and a forge.

The Louisa County, Virginia, Historical Society documents that on June 9, 1791, President George Washington was an overnight visitor at Jerdone Castle.

In the fourth chapter of The Woman Within, entitled "I Become a Writer," Miss Glasgow describes lying in the meadow at Jerdone Castle and realizing that writing was to be her future (VLR 280).

He made his living as a merchant (factor), running a mercantile business with George Pottie until his death in 1771.

Francis and Mary's sons included John Jerdone, a planter of Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

John was born October 11, 1800, in Louisa County, Virginia, and died on December 2, 1863, in Henderson, Kentucky.

Barbara Ann Callis, born February 25, 1814, in Louisa Co., Virginia; died December 9, 1890, in Henderson, Kentucky.