page_title: Washington family
section_title: Fourth generation
hierarchical_section_title: Washington family / Fourth generation
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Mount Vernon Abstract: George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette are in group on lawn. Physical description: 1 print. Notes: Associated name on shelflist card: Lawler, Thomas.; This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card, with subsequent revisions.
context_page_description: The Washington family is an American family of English origins. It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia, owning several highly valued Plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming. They are best known as the family of the first president of the United States, George Washington, and of his nephew, Bushrod Washington, who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  The family traces its descent from John Washington, born, 1631 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, who arrived in the Colony of Virginia in 1657 after being shipwrecked. President Washington's immediate ancestry entirely traces back to England, save for at least two lines. A paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Nicolas Martiau, was a Huguenot from Île de Ré, France and naturalized Englishman, who arrived in Virginia aboard the Francis Bonaventure in 1620.
context_section_description: George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at Popes Creek, Virginia, British America and the oldest of six children to Augustine and Mary Washington. He became an American political leader, military general, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Washington died on December 14, 1799, aged 67 at Mount Vernon, the families estate in Virginia. Washington had no biological children. His wife Martha Dandridge had four children from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. These step-children were Daniel Custis (1751–1754), Frances Custis (1753–1757),
  John "Jacky" Parke Custis (1754–1781) and
  Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756–1773). 
  Elizabeth "Betty" Washington was the younger sister of George Washington and the only sister to live to adulthood. She was born in 1733 in Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia.
  Samuel Washington was a colonial American officer and politician (b.1733) in Popes Creek (Virginia).
  John Augustine Washington (1736–1787) married Hannah Bushrod (1735-1801) in 1756 and had six children including Bushrod Washington.
  Charles Washington (1738-1799) was the youngest brother.
  Mildred Washington
caption: George Washington with the Marquis de Lafayette at Mount Vernon.
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