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Samuel Washington (November 16, 1734 – September 26, 1781) was an American planter, politician and military officer best known for being the younger brother of the first president of the United States, George Washington.
Lawrence Washington's great-grandson, Lawrence Washington (1602–1652), was a rector. [10] His brother Sir William Washington married the half-sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. [1] [14] The Washington family supported the Royalists during the English Civil War and were dispossessed of their lands following their defeat. [13]
John Augustine Washington Sr. (January 13, 1736 – January 8, 1787) was an American planter and politician best known as the younger brother of George Washington and the father of Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington., [1] [2] he was also the grandfather of John Augustine Washington Jr.
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] ... Among his siblings, he was particularly close to his older half-brother Lawrence. [7]
Washington was the older half-brother of George Washington, the future President of the United States. He was the first of the family to live in the house known as Mount Vernon, which he named after British Admiral Edward Vernon, his commanding officer in the War of Jenkins' Ear. [1] [2] Washington became ill with tuberculosis.
Charles Washington (May 2, 1738 – September 16, 1799) was an American planter and politician who founded a town in the Shenandoah Valley that was named Charles Town in his honor shortly after his death and that of his eldest brother, George Washington.
Bushrod Washington was born on June 5, 1762, at Bushfield Manor, a plantation located at Mount Holly in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [2] [3] He was a son of John Augustine Washington (1736–1787), the brother of George Washington, and John's heiress wife, Hannah Bushrod (1735–1801).