Samuel Washington was a brother of United States President

President of the United States

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 George Washington

George Washington

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. He was born on November 16, 1734 at Pope's Creek, Wakefield, Westmoreland County

Westmoreland County, Virginia

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, Virginia

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Samuel served numerous posts in Stafford County

Stafford County, Virginia

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, Virginia including justice of the peace

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, county magistrate, county sheriff, militia officer, and parish vestryman

Vestryman

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. He resided at Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon (plantation)

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 from 1735 to 1738.

He had Harewood

Harewood (West Virginia)

Harewood is one of several houses in the vicinity of Charles Town, West Virginia built for members of the Washington family. The house was designed by John Ariss for Samuel Washington in 1770. Washington moved from his farm on Chotank creek in Stafford County, Virginia to Harewood, accumulating ...

 near Charles Town, West Virginia

Charles Town, West Virginia

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 designed by John Ariss

John Ariss

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 in 1770. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1973.

Marriages and children

Samuel married five times and had seven children:

• Jane Champe
• Mildred Thornton (about 1741-1763) - possibly died during or shortly after childbirth. Her cousin, also named Mildred Thornton, married Samuel's younger brother Charles
  Charles Washington
  Charles Washington was the youngest brother of United States President George Washington. He was a son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington....
  
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  • Thornton Washington
    Thornton Washington
    Thornton Augustine Washington was a nephew of George Washington. He was born ca. 1760 in Stafford County, Virginia and died in 1787. He married Mildred Berry on 26 December 1779 and Frances Townshend on 2 April 1786.Children include:*by Mildred Berry...
    
     (1760–1787)
  • Tristram Washington (born 1763)
• Lucy Chapman
• Anne Steptoe (1737–1777)
  • Ferdinand Washington (1767–1788)
  • George Steptoe Washington
    George Steptoe Washington
    George Steptoe Washington was an American soldier and the husband of both Lucy Washington and Mary Coles Payne...
    
     (1773–1808) - He married Lucy Payne
    Lucy Washington
    Lucy Washington , one of eight children born to John Payne and Mary Coles, was the sister of Dolley Madison, the wife of American President James Madison. She first married Major George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of American President George Washington...
    
    , sister of Dolley Madison
    Dolley Madison
    Dolley Payne Todd Madison was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817...
    
    , wife of James Madison
    James Madison
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    . His son Samuel Walter Washington (1799-1831) married Louisa Clemson, sister of Thomas Green Clemson
    Thomas Green Clemson
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  • Lawrence Augustine Washington
    Lawrence Augustine Washington
    Lawrence Augustine Washington was a nephew of United States President George Washington and son of Samuel Washington and his fourth wife, Anne Steptoe....
    
     (1775–1824)
  • Harriot Washington (1776–1822)
• Susannah Perrin
  • John Perrin Washington (1781–1784)

Ancestry