Hannah Bushrod
(1738-1801)
BIRTH
1738
PLACE
Bushfield, Westmoreland, Virginia
DEATH
1801
PLACE
Bushfield, Westmoreland County, Virginia
FAMILY
HUSBAND
John Augustine Washington
(1736-1787)
CHILDREN
Jenny Washington
(1759-1791)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hannah Bushrod Washington was the wife of John Augustine Washington, George Washington’s brother, and mother of Supreme Court justice Bushrod Washington. The couple married in 1756 and lived at Mount Vernon before moving to her family’s Bushfield estate in Westmoreland County. A joint 1782 letter to their son survives at Mount Vernon. Her estate papers document her life, although repositories and genealogies differ on her birth and death years.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Hannah Bushrod’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.
No distinct public profession or office for Hannah Bushrod 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hannah Bushrod died in 1801, in Bushfield, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Hannah Bushrod Washington was the wife of John Augustine Washington, George Washington’s brother, and mother of Supreme Court justice Bushrod Washington. The couple married in 1756 and lived at Mount Vernon before moving to her family’s Bushfield estate in Westmoreland County. A joint 1782 letter to their son survives at Mount Vernon. Her estate papers document her life, although repositories and genealogies differ on her birth and death years. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Bushfield Marker
4417 Cople Hwy, Montross, VA 22520
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