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George Corbin Washington (1789–1854)

Role

George Corbin Washington was a nephew of Bushrod Washington.

Description

George Corbin Washington, a son of William Augustine Washington and grandnephew of George Washington, was born on 20 August 1789 at Haywood Farms, near Oak Grove in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Citations

"George Washington’s Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0404-0001. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 479–511.]

"School Exercises," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-01-02-0001. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 1, 7 July 1748 – 14 August 1755, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, pp. 1–4.]

" 'Some relicks of Genl. Washington': The Misadventures of the Washington Papers," From the Stacks (blog), New York Historical Society Museum and Library.

"George Corbin Washington to David English, August 14, 1817," George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Weekly National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), 22 July 1854, page 2, column 6 (Newspapers.com).

George Corbin Washington in Pueschel Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

George Corbin Washington at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

George Corbin Washington at Find a Grave.

George Corbin Washington at FamilySearch.