William Whann (1769–1822)
Bushrod Washington was a shareholder in the Bank of Columbia.
William Whann was born on 29 August 1769 in Cecil County, Maryland. A resident of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., he was cashier of that neighborhood's Bank of Columbia for nearly twenty years. Whann also served as a trustee of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church. He had one daughter with Jane Moffitt (1771–1820, m. 1794). Whann died in Cecil County on 5 February or March 1822.
Harvey W. Crew, John Wooldridge, and William Benning Webb, Centennial History of the City of Washington, D.C. with Full Outline of the Natural Advantages, Accounts of the Indian Tribes, Selection of the Site, Founding of the City, Pioneer Life, Municipal, Military, Mercantile, Manufacturing, and Transportation Interests, the Press, Schools, Churches, Societies, Public Buildings, Etc., to the Present Time (Dayton, OH: W.J. Shuey, 1892), 351–52.
“From James Madison to Albert Gallatin (Abstract), 1 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-09-02-0001. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 9, 1 February 1805–30 June 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 1.]
Bank of Columbia Records, 1794–1828, The Library Company of Philadelphia.
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 20 October 1801, page 2, column 1 (America’s Historical Newspapers).
Washington Gazette, 22 June 1821, page 2, column 2 (America’s Historical Newspapers).
William Whann in Scrivener2 Family Tree (Ancestry.com).
William Whann in Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1655–1850 (Ancestry.com).