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Samuel Washington (November 16, 1734 – September 26, ... Washington was born in at his father's Wakefield Plantation on Pope's Creek, in Westmoreland County, ...
Augustine Washington Sr. (1694 [a] – April 12, 1743) [1] [2] was an American planter and merchant. Born in Westmoreland, Virginia, he was the father of ten children, among them the first president of the United States, George Washington, soldier and politician Lawrence Washington, and politician Charles Washington.
The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.
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.
From this marriage, Washington had a younger half-brother, Samuel Washington. [5] Through his father, Washington was a grandson of Samuel Washington (1734–1781), [5] and a grandnephew of Charles Washington (1738–1799) and United States President George Washington (1732–1799).
John Marshall served with George Washington at Valley Forge and later would be the first to refer to him as "the Father of his country". Appointed the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court under John Adams, Marshall defined the authority of the court and ensured the stability of the federal government during the first three decades of ...
Denzel Washington considers Samuel L. Jackson part of the family. Washington, 69, was among the presenters at the Museum of Modern Art’s 16th annual Film Benefit honoring Jackson, 75.
Mildred Gale (1671–1701), born Mildred Warner in the Colony of Virginia, was the paternal grandmother of Founding Father and first American president George Washington. Early life [ edit ]