Information from Richard D. Jordan:
“George W. Banks was the defendant in a presentment to the Grand Jury in the August 1799 Term of the Essex County Court ‘for retailing liquors at his house without license’. The evidence must have been unconvincing because the Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth directed a nole prosequi be entered in the cause (Essex County Order Book No. 35, p. 286). We next find that the Essex County Court had appointed George W. Banks guardian for Henry Boughan and Elizabeth Boughan, orphans of Griffin (sic) Boughan on July 15, 1799 (Essex Co. Order Book No. 35, p. 259).”

On 20 February 1804, George W. Banks, John Horace Upshaw, Laurence Muse and Richard Banks were bound in the penalty of $3,000 for George W. Banks’s administration of the good, chattels and credits of Robert Banks unadministered by Elizabeth Banks deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 16, pages 270–271.]

On 4 June 1807, William Banks and Geo. W. Banks were bound for the marriage of William Banks, bachelor, and Miss Polly Boughan, spinster. [Virginia State Library, Research and Information Services Division, Essex County Marriage Bonds, Box 1, 1804–11.]

On 20 June 1808, Tunstall Banks, George W. Banks and John Daingerfield were bound in the penalty of $7,000 for Tunstall Banks’s administration of the goods, chattels and credits of Richard Banks, deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 70–71.]

On 16 December 1811, Tunstall Banks, George W. Banks, Wm Garnett and Wm Banks were bound in the penalty of $4,000 for Tunstall Banks’s and George W. Banks’s administration of the goods, chattels and credits of Richard P. Banks, deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, page 332.]

On 21 February 1815, George W. Banks, Richard Rowzee, Henry H. Boughan and Tunstall Banks were bound in the penalty of $5,000 for George W. Banks’s administration of the goods, chattels and credits of Susanna Boulware, deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 18, pages 121–122.]

On 21 February 1815, Geo: W. Banks, Tunstall Banks and William L. L. Clements were bound in the penalty of $5,000 unto Richard Rouzee. The condition of this obligaion was such that whereas the said Richard Rouzee did on the 21st day of February 1815 together with Henry H. Boughan and Tunstall Banks become security for the above George W. Banks in a bond to the justices of Essex County Court for the legal administration of the estate of Susanna Boulware, deceased, and whereas also the said George W. Banks is willing fully to indemnify and save harmless the said Richard Rouzee against all damages which he may sustain or be put to in consequence of his becoming security, now George W. Banks shall fully indemnify and save harmless the said Richard Rouzee. Signed Geo: W Banks, Tunstall Banks, Wm L L Clements. Witness: Laurence Muse. On 19 March 1838, presented in court. James R Micou and Wm S Wright declare they were well acquainted with the handwriting of Laurence Muse the only subscribing witnesses who is now dead, and that they believe the signature is proper, and the bond was ordered recorded. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 24, page 262.]

The estate of Richard P. Banks, deceased, from 1811 to 1816 in account with George W. Banks and Tunstall Banks, administrators, was settled on 27 June 1817 by James R Micou, W. B. Matthews, and Benjamin Blake. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 18, pages 367–368.]

The estate of Susanna Boulware, deceased, in account with George W. Banks, administrator for 1815 to 1816 was settled on 17 June 1817 by Wm. B. Matthews, James R. Micou, and Jno Belfield. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 18, pages 394–395.]

In September 1831, in an inventory of the estate of Benjamin Blake, a bond of Geo: Wash. Banks for $451.55 was listed among those insolvent. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 24, page 205.]

The Richmond Whig of 2 October 1835 had this notice: “In Yorktown on the 19th ult. died Maj. Geo. W. Banks in about the 58th year of his age, leaving a large family.” (Tyler’s Quarterly, Lyon G. Tyler, Ed., Kraus Reprint Co. Millwood, N.Y. 1978, Vol. XVI, p. 29.)

On 20 March 1837, M G Wood, deputy sheriff for James Semple, sheriff, stated “I have made diligent enquiry and examination and can find no estate of the within named Geo W Banks in this County or elsewhere—” [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 24, page 108.]

An article by Emily Emerson Lantz in the Baltimore Sun of Sunday, 11 June 1905 states in part: “George Washington Banks, third son of Richard P. and Elizabeth (Tunstall) Banks was born in Tappahannock, Essex County, VA in 1775 and named for the famous George Washington a personal friend of his father. He married first in 1798 Kitty Baughan, daughter of Griffin Baughan, and, second, Charlotte Hayward Martin of Snow Hill, MD. . . This famous old gentleman who was said to have been one of the most brilliant conversationalists in Virginia, was at the age of 20 a lieutenant in the Sixth Virginia Regiment; in 1812 was advanced to the rank of captain and also served as deputy sheriff and was finally made major in the Sixth Virginia Regiment, and served, together with Lieutenant-Col. Archibald Ritchie on Light Horse Harry Lee’s staff in the War of 1812 to 1814. Major Banks practiced law in Williamsburg during the twenties, at which time his brother, William Tunstall Banks, was clerk of the Supreme Court of Chancery at the same place. . .When living in Yorktown in 1824 George Washington Banks practiced law with Dr. Powers. He entertained General Lafayette at his home and his daughter Catherine charmed the gallant French soldier by conversing fluently with him in his own language. Major Banks was a strikingly handsome man, over six feet in height with black hair and eyes, and the Major Banks of Baltimore, his son, resembled him much in physique.”