John Augustine Washington
(1736-1787)
BIRTH
January 13, 1736
PLACE
Westmoreland County, Virginia
DEATH
January 8, 1787
PLACE
Stafford County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
MOTHER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
BROTHER
Butler Washington
(1716-died in infancy)
BROTHER
Lawrence Washington
(1718-1752)
BROTHER
Augustine Washington Jr.
(1720-1762)
SISTER
Jane Washington
(1721-1734)
BROTHER
George Washington
(1732-1799)
SISTER
Betty Washington Lewis
(1733-1797)
BROTHER
Samuel Washington
(1734-1781)
BROTHER
Charles Washington
(1738-1799)
SISTER
Mildred Washington
(1739-1740)
WIFE
Hannah Bushrod
(1738-1801)
CHILDREN
Jenny Washington
(1759-1791)
CHILDREN
Bushrod Washington
(1762-1829)
HOMES
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
VA - Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
Bushfield
VA - Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
NICKNAMES
Jack
POLITICAL VIEWS
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
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MEMBERSHIPS
WESTMORELAND ASSOCIATION MEMBER, WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMITTEE FOR RELIEF OF BOSTON CHAIR, WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMITTEE OF SAFETY MEMBER
AWARDS
John Augustine Washington (1736–1787), George Washington’s younger brother, was a Virginia planter and militia colonel. He helped manage Mount Vernon during George’s Seven Years’ War service, then lived with his wife Hannah Bushrod at Bushfield. During the Revolution he served on Westmoreland County’s safety committee, organized grain relief for Boston, and represented the county in Virginia’s House of Delegates. His son Bushrod later became a Supreme Court justice.
EARLY LIFE
John Augustine Washington was born on Jan 13, 1736 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. 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 John Augustine Washington with work or public activity as a 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. John Augustine Washington died on Jan 8, 1787 in Stafford County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
John Augustine Washington, George Washington’s younger brother, was a Virginia planter and militia colonel. During the Revolution he served on Westmoreland County’s safety committee, organized grain relief for Boston, and represented the county in Virginia’s House of Delegates. John Augustine Washington died on Jan 8, 1787 in Stafford County, Virginia. 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.
Bushfield
367 Club House Loop, Mount Holly, VA 22524
GRAVE
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