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The Papers of Bushrod Washington
The Papers of Bushrod Washington is a digital documentary editing project focused on the personal papers of George Washington's nephew, Bushrod Washington. The digital edition includes documents scattered worldwide and thus largely unknown or overlooked in the scholarship of the revolutionary, early national, and antebellum eras. Though project editors have contacted over 2,000 archives and repositories in the quest for documents, the document collection and editing process continues. Therefore, this is a living edition; editors will continue to add new documents and annotations to this digital resource.
Who Was Bushrod Washington?
Learn more about Bushrod Washington: Inheritor of Mount Vernon and Supreme Court Justice.
Court Cases
Read summaries of court cases in which Bushrod Washington was involved as a judge.
Bushrod Washington's Circuit Court Route, 1803−1829
Justice Bushrod Washington sat on the Supreme Court of the United States. During the Early Republic era, this honor also included service as a judge for one of the Circuit Courts of the United States. Bushrod worked for many circuits throughout his life, including the Southern Circuit in 1798 and 1800, the Middle Circuit in 1800, and the Second Circuit from 1802 to 1803. The circuit which Bushrod served the longest, and which is the focus of this story map, was the Circuit Court of the United States for the Third Circuit.
