Skip to main content

William Temple Washington (18001877)

Role

William Temple Washington's father was a cousin of Bushrod Washington.

Description

William Temple Washington, son of George Steptoe Washington and Lucy Payne Washington and nephew of Dolley Payne Todd Madison, was born at Harewood on 15 June 1800. A graduate of The College of William and Mary, he resided at Megwillie, a plantation home near Charles Town whose name was a portmanteau of the nicknames of wife Margaret Calhoun Fletcher (18061865, m. 1821) and himself. His seven children with Fletcher included Eugenia Scholay Washington, a founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Citations

Albert Welles, The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family: Derived from Odin, The Founder of Scandinavia, B.C. 70, Involving a Period of Eighteen Centuries, and Including Fifty-Five Generations, Down to General George Washington, First President of the United States (New York: Society Library, 1879), 210–11.

"Washington, William Temple (1800-1877)," in Holly C. Shuman, ed., The Dolley Madison Digital Edition.

"To James Madison from Thomas Todd, 27 July 1817," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-01-02-0090. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1817 – 31 January 1820, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, pp. 96–98.]

Alexandria Gazette (VA), 30 April 1877, page 2, column 1 (Newspapers.com).

Marriage Bond of Will T. Washington and Margaret A. Fletcher in Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797–1954 (Family Search).

Eugenia Washington at Daughters of the American Revolution.

William Temple Washington at Find a Grave.

William Temple Washington at FamilySearch.