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Prominent Virginia families of Stafford and Spotsylvania counties.

Augustine Washington (1694–1743) was a Virginia planter and the father of George Washington. He had a total of ten children by two wives. His son Augustine II (1720-1762) had four children but only one son, William Augustine (1759-1810). William Augustine had nine children, among them his eldest son Augustine (1780-1798); his sixth child, George Corbin Washington (1789-1854), was a Congressman from Maryland and later president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

From the guide to the Washington Family Papers, 1818-1900, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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