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Philip Burgess Smith (1744?–1781 or 1782)

Role

Philip Burgess Smith was an uncle of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Philip Burgess Smith was a graduate of The College of William and Mary. In 1769 he married Hannah Bushrod Washington's sister Elizabeth, with whom he would have three children. Philip Burgess Smith died in Westmoreland, Virginia. 

Citations

"Mathews Family," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 6, Number 2 (October 1897), 92–93.

A Catalogue of the College of William & Mary in Virginia (1859), 35.

Philip Burgess Smith in Bruce Jeffery Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

Philip Smith at FamilySearch.