Samuel Washington

(1734-1781)

BIRTH

November 16, 1734

PLACE

Westmoreland County, Virginia

DEATH

September 26, 1781

PLACE

Berkeley County, West Virginia

FAMILY

FATHER

Augustine Washington Sr.

(1694-1743)

MOTHER

Mary Ball Washington

(1709-1789)

BROTHER

Lawrence Washington

(1718-1752)

BROTHER

Augustine Washington Jr.

(1720-1762)

BROTHER

George Washington

(1732-1799)

SISTER

Betty Washington Lewis

(1733-1797)

BROTHER

John Augustine Washington

(1736-1787)

BROTHER

Charles Washington

(1738-1799)

SISTER

Mildred Washington

(1739-1740)

WIFE

Anne Steptoe Washington

(1737-1777)

CHILDREN

George Steptoe Washington

(1771-1809)

HOMES

Harewood Cemetery

VA - Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

NICKNAMES

Sam

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

CHRISTIAN

ANGLICAN

MEMBERSHIPS

NORBORNE PARISH SENIOR WARDEN, NORBORNE PARISH VESTRYMAN

AWARDS

Samuel Washington (1734–1781), George Washington’s younger brother, was a Virginia planter, militia officer, county justice and vestryman. He built Harewood near present-day Charles Town, West Virginia, and raised a large family through several marriages. His children included George Steptoe and Lawrence Augustine Washington, whose uncle later supported their education. Samuel died before the victory at Yorktown. Harewood remains an important record of the family’s life.

EARLY LIFE

Samuel Washington was born on Nov 16, 1734 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.

The available biographical record identifies Samuel Washington with work or public activity as a judge, planter, soldier. 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. Samuel Washington died on Sep 26, 1781 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

CAREER

DEATH

Samuel Washington, George Washington’s younger brother, was a Virginia planter, militia officer, county justice and vestryman. Harewood remains an important record of the family’s life. On February 5, 1771, Washington took the oath of office as one of the justices of the Frederick County court (likewise helping to administer that county), and on April 17, 1772 Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore appointed Washington as one of the justices of the new Berkeley County court. In 1773 and again in 1776, Washington served as the Berkeley county sheriff. Beginning in 1775, Washington also served as colonel and led the Berkeley County Virginia Militia, but was forced to resign due to ill health on April 3, 1777. Samuel Washington died on Sep 26, 1781 in Berkeley County, West 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.

Harewood Cemetery

Harewood Lane, Nelson County, Virginia, 22967, USA