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Jane "Jenny" Washington Washington (1759–1791)

Role

Jane Washington was a sister of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Jane "Jenny" Washington, the oldest child of John Augustine Washington and Hannah Bushrod Washington, was born on 20 June 1759 at Bushfield, her father's plantation home in Mount Holly, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Philip Vickers Fithian, a tutor at Robert Carter's nearby Nomini Hall, described Jenny at length in his journal entry for 24 June 1774:

Citations

Colonial Dames of America, Ancestral Records and Portraits (New York: The Grafton Press, 1910), Volume II, 42627.

John Rogers Williams, ed., Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal and Letters 17671774 (Princeton: The University Library, 1900), 183–84.

"To George Washington from James Craik, 31 August 1791," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-08-02-0333. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 8, 22 March 1791 – 22 September 1791, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 472–473.]

Jane "Jenny" Washington Washington at Find a Grave.

Jane Washington at FamilySearch.