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William Augustine Washington (17571810)

Role

William Augustine Washington was a cousin and brother-in-law of Bushrod Washington.

 

Description

William Augustine Washington, son of a half-brother of George Washington, was born at Wakefield on 25 November 1757. While a teenager he was elected a captain of Westmoreland County militia and served in the Revolutionary War. A planter by profession, he was also sheriff of Westmoreland County (178486) and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1788).

Citations

Colonial Dames of America, Ancestral Records and Portraits (New York: The Grafton Press, 1910), Volume II, 426–28.

Samuel K. Fore, "William Augustine Washington," Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington (George Washington's Mount Vernon).

Colonel William Augustine Washington Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 

William Augustine Washington at House History.

Capt William Augustine Washington at Find a Grave.

William Augustine Washington at FamilySearch.