George Washington Lewis
(1757-1821)
BIRTH
March 13, 1757
PLACE
DEATH
November 13, 1821
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Betty Washington Lewis
(1733-1797)
BROTHER
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
SISTER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
SISTER
Betty Washington Lewis
(1733-1797)
BROTHER
Lawrence Lewis
(1767-1839)
BROTHER
Robert Lewis
(1769-1829)
BROTHER
Howell Lewis
(1771-1822)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
George Washington Lewis (1757–1821) was Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis’s son and George Washington’s nephew. He escorted Martha Washington to the army’s Cambridge camp in 1775 and served in the commander-in-chief’s guard before joining the cavalry. After the war he married Catherine Daingerfield and lived at Marmion in Virginia. Letters connect him to Washington’s military and household life. Accounts differ on his March 13 or 14 birth date.
EARLY LIFE
George Washington Lewis was born on Mar 13, 1757. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for George Washington Lewis is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. George Washington Lewis died on Nov 13, 1821. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
George Washington Lewis died on Nov 13, 1821. George Washington Lewis was Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis’s son and George Washington’s nephew. He escorted Martha Washington to the army’s Cambridge camp in 1775 and served in the commander-in-chief’s guard before joining the cavalry. After the war he married Catherine Daingerfield and lived at Marmion in Virginia. Letters connect him to Washington’s military and household life. Accounts differ on his March 13 or 14 birth date. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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