Augustine Washington Jr.
(1720-1762)
BIRTH
1720
PLACE
Westmoreland County, Virginia
DEATH
1762
PLACE
Westmoreland County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
MOTHER
Jane Butler Washington
(1699-1729)
BROTHER
Butler Washington
(1716-died in infancy)
BROTHER
Lawrence Washington
(1718-1752)
SISTER
Jane Washington
(1721-1734)
BROTHER
George Washington
(1732-1799)
SISTER
Betty Washington Lewis
(1733-1797)
BROTHER
Samuel Washington
(1734-1781)
BROTHER
John Augustine Washington
(1736-1787)
BROTHER
Charles Washington
(1738-1799)
SISTER
Mildred Washington
(1739-1740)
WIFE
Anne Aylett
(1738-1768)
CHILDREN
William Augustine Washington
(1757-1810)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Austin
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Augustine Washington Jr. (1720–1762) was George Washington’s elder half brother, a son of Augustine Washington and Jane Butler. He inherited the family’s Popes Creek plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and married Anne Aylett. He pursued the planter’s life and represented his county in the House of Burgesses during the 1750s. His children included William Augustine Washington. He died before the Revolution, in George’s earlier family years.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Augustine Washington Jr.’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
1732 Popes Creek Rd, Colonial Beach, VA 22443
The National Park Service safeguards the plantation landscape, archaeological evidence, burial ground, and Colonial Revival memorial structures. The 1930s Memorial House is commemorative rather than the surviving or exact rebuilt birth house.
MONUMENT
Reconstructions, Exhibits, Gardens, Tours
The available biographical record identifies Augustine Washington Jr. with work or public activity as a planter, soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Augustine Washington Jr. died in 1762. Augustine Washington Jr. was George Washington’s elder half brother, a son of Augustine Washington and Jane Butler. He inherited the family’s Popes Creek plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and married Anne Aylett. He pursued the planter’s life and represented his county in the House of Burgesses during the 1750s. His children included William Augustine Washington. He died before the Revolution, in George’s earlier family years. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Augustine Washington Jr. (1720–1762), George Washington’s elder half brother, distinct from their father Augustine Washington. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. The Washingtons: A Family History, Volume 1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch — Justin Glenn. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The Washingtons and Their Homes — John W. Wayland. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. George Washington: A Biographical Companion — Frank E. Grizzard Jr. [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
4. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members — Cynthia Miller Leonard (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I — Lyon Gardiner Tyler (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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