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
Pedigree and arms of the Washington line until George Washington
The old Washington green, the ancestral settlement of the Washingtons
Old Hall, the Washington ancestral home
Sulgrave Manor, the house built by Lawrence Washington
Bushrod Washington was an American attorney and politician from the Washington family who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829. On the Supreme Court,
Washington family
…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…
Portrait by Chester Harding, 1828
Washington placed a runaway slave ad in the Alexandria Gazette of April 4, 1821, seeking the return of Fielding, reward $10
Washington family tomb at Mount Vernon in 2014. Bushrod Washington's remains are interred in a vault at the rear of the tomb. His memorial is the obelisk at the right side of the photograph.