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Funded by a grant from George Washington’s Mount Vernon, The Washington Family Papers project (WFPP) aims to collect, transcribe, and annotate selected letters written to and from members of the Washington family. Family members will include George Washington’s parents, those of his siblings who lived past childhood, his stepchildren, his step-grandchildren, and his nephew Bushrod Washington. Work on the Washington Family Papers is now underway.

Project Background

George Washington was careful to cultivate a sterling public image. It’s often difficult to see below this surface, even after studying the extensive correspondence published in the Papers of George Washington volumes.

One might turn to his wife, Martha Washington, for more insight. They were true partners and sustained a loving relationship through the greatest difficulties. The upcoming edition of Martha’s papers will reveal more than ever before about her life, her relationship with her husband, and her own historical importance. However, much will remain hidden because of gaps in her documentary record.

Integral to George’s daily concerns, as well as to Martha’s, were his family members: his parents, siblings, stepchildren, and step-grandchildren. While letters to and from his family are published in the Papers of George Washington volumes, many more documents are yet to be discovered and made accessible. Some Washington family correspondence does appear in other print sources published since the nineteenth century, but it is sporadic and not authenticated.

As the first edition to publish the Washington family correspondence with consistent focus and methods, the WFPP will offer a new entryway into George Washington’s world. These family members also stand on their own as fascinating historical figures with their individual triumphs and losses:

George Washington’s Parents:

• Augustine Washington (1693-1743)
• Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789)

George’s parents have appeared more in myth

Founding Father and first U.S. president (1789–1797)

"General Washington" redirects here. For other uses, see General Washington (disambiguation) and George Washington (disambiguation).

George Washington (February 22 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British Empire. He is commonly known as the Father of His Country for his role in brin

As already noted, much of Washington's early life was passed at the homes of his elder (half-) brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, who lived respectively at Mount Vernon and Wakefield. When Lawrence developed consumption, George was his travelling companion in a trip to Barbadoes, and from him, when he died of that disease, in 1752, came the bequest of Mount Vernon to "my loveing brother George." To Augustine, in the only letter now extant, Washington wrote, "The pleasure of your company at Mount Vernon always did, and always will afford me infinite satisfaction," and signed himself "your most affectionate brother." Surviving this brother, he left handsome bequests to all his children.

Samuel, the eldest of his own brothers, and his junior by but two years, though constantly corresponded with, was not a favorite. He seems to have had extravagant tendencies, variously indicated by five marriages, and by (perhaps as a consequence) pecuniary difficulties. In 1781, Washington wrote to another brother, "In God's name how did my brother Samuel get himself so enormously in debt?" Very quickly requests for loans followed, than which nothing was more irritating to Washington. Yet, though he replied that it would be "very inconvenient" to him, his ledger shows that at least two thousand dollars were advanced, and in a letter to this brother, on the danger of borrowing at interest, Washington wrote, "I do not make these observations on account of the money I purpose to lend you, because all I shall require is that you return the net sum when in your power, without interest." Better even than this, in his will Washington discharged the debt.

To the family of Samuel, Washington was equally helpful. For the eldest son he obtained an ensigncy, and "to save Thornton and you [Samuel] the expence of buying a horse to ride home on, I have lent him a mare." Two other sons he assumed all the expenses of, and showed an almost

Colonial American family

For the painting by Edward Savage, see The Washington Family.

The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry. It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming. Members of the family include the first president of the United States, George Washington (1732–1799), and his nephew, Bushrod Washington (1762–1829), who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The family's roots can be traced back to the 12th century in Washington, in the historic County Palatine of Durham in northern England, where their ancestral home was Washington Old Hall. In the 16th century, a branch settled at Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire