John Augustine Washington

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John Augustine Washington (1736-1787)[1] was a member of the fifth Virginia Convention and a founding member of the Mississippi Land Company.[2] During the American Revolution he was a member of Westmoreland County's Committee of Safety and the Chairman of the County Committee for Relief of Boston.[1][3]

He was the brother of George Washington and the third son of Mary Ball and Augustine Washington. John Washington married Hannah Bushrod in 1756, and lived with her in the family estate, Mount Vernon. One of their children was Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington.

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  1. ^ a b George Washington's Family Chart. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
  2. ^ "Transactions 1902 – 1904" (1906). Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts VIII. Cambridge USA: University Press: John Wilson and Son. 
  3. ^ Coleman, Charles Washington (April 1897). "The County Committees of 1774-'75 in Virginia: II". William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine 5 (4): 245–255. 

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