John Augustine Washington
- John Augustine Washington
John Augustine Washington (1736-1787)[cite web | title = George Washington's Family Chart | publisher = Mount Vernon Ladies' Association | url = http://www.mountvernon.org/visit/plan/index.cfm/pid/348/#jaw | accessdate =2008-03-21] was a member of the fifth Virginia Convention and a founding member of the Mississippi Land Company.][cite journal | title = Transactions 1902 – 1904 | journal = Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts | volume = VIII | publisher = University Press: John Wilson and Son | location = Cambridge USA | date = 1906]
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=r7YMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA267&dq=%22John+Augustine+Washington%22+-wikipedia | accessdate =2008-03-21] 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.[cite journal | last = Coleman | first = Charles Washington | title = The County Committees of 1774-'75 in Virginia: II | journal = William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine | volume = 5 | issue = 4 | pages = 245–255 | date = April 1897 | accessdate =2008-03-21] ]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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* [http://www.mountvernon.org/visit/plan/index.cfm/pid/348/ Mount Vernon biography]
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