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Samuel George Washington

Role

An impostor who wrote Bushrod Washington at least twice, claiming to be his nephew or son.

Citations

Bushrod Washington Family Papers, Special Collections at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia (Archival Resources of the Virginias).

Gerard N. Magliocca, Washington’s Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 77.