Alexander Spotswood (1746–1818)
Spotswood's wife Elizabeth was a cousin of Bushrod Washington.
Alexander Spotswood, father of George Augustine Washington Spotswood and William Lawrence McCarty Spotswood, was born on 16 October 1746 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Educated at England’s Eton College, he returned home to run the family ironworks and manage his entailed estate, which consisted of approximately 150,000 acres in several counties.
"To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 30 April 1775," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0276. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 355–356.]
"From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 10 August 1778," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-16-02-0300. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 16, 1 July–14 September 1778, ed. David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006, pp. 285–287.]
Curtis Dewees, George Washington’s Kentucky Land (Lake Orion, MI: Lake Orion Book Distributors, 2005), 54.
Alexander Spotswood at Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties.
Alexander Spotswood at Find a Grave.
Alexander Spotswood at FamilySearch.