Samuel Washington

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Samuel Washington (1734–1781) is a brother of United States President George Washington. He was born on November 16, 1734 at Pope's Creek, Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Samuel served numerous posts in Stafford County, Virginia including justice of the peace, county magistrate, county sheriff, militia officer, and parish vestryman. He resided at Mount Vernon from 1735 to 1738.

Samuel married five times and had seven children:

• Jane Champe
• Mildred Thornton (later married Samuel's youngest brother, Charles)
  • Thornton Washington (1760–1787)
  • Tristram Washington (born 1763)
• Lucy Chapman
• Anne Steptoe (1737–1777)
  • Ferdinand Washington (1767–1788)
  • George Steptoe Washington (1773–1808){His son Samuel Walter Washington {1799-1831} married Louisa Clemson who was the sister of Thomas Green Clemson who was a son-in-law of John C. Calhoun-Calhoun was a cousin of the grandmother of Francis Wilkinson Pickens Governor of South Carolina-a grandson of Andrew Pickens (congressman)}.
  • Lawrence Augustine Washington (1775–1824)
  • Harriot Washington (1776–1822)
• Susannah Perrin
  • John Perrin Washington (1781–1784)