Bushrod Washington (1762–1829)
Bushrod Washington, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born to John Augustine Washington and Hannah Bushrod Washington on 5 June 1762 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. After attending The College of William and Mary, he served as a volunteer cavalryman during the Revolutionary War’s Virginia campaign of 1781.
Gerard N. Magliocca, Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
"Bushrod Washington." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310001126/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=535433fe. Accessed 18 Dec. 2022.
"September 1784," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0001-0001. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 1–54.]
"To George Washington from Bushrod Washington, 9 November 1788," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0080. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 24 September 1788 – 31 March 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 100–102.]
"From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington, 23 September 1795," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-28-02-0378. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 28, 1 January 1794 – 29 February 1796, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 479–480.]
Lawrence B. Custer, "Bushrod Washington and John Marshall: A Preliminary Inquiry," The American Journal of Legal History, Volume 4, Number 1 (January 1960), 34–48.
Richard E. Ellis, "Washington, Bushrod," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).
M. Earl Smith, "Bushrod Washington," Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington (George Washington’s Mount Vernon).
Bushrod Washington at Federal Judicial Center.
Bushrod Washington at Oyez.
Bushrod Washington at Find a Grave.
Bushrod C. Washington at FamilySearch.