Talk:Bushrod Washington

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December 9, 2010 - Sorry guys, I don't know much about wikipedia and I care not to get too involved, but this is my only way to voice an inconsistency. Bushrod's birthday is either wrong or in the George Washington (president) wikipedia page is wrong because it said George shared a close relationship with his nephew Bushrod. Well Bushrod was a grand age of 1 year old if that's accurate. George's page is locked. I hope one of you wiki editors can fix this.

Thank you. Ps. - My apologies for doing this completely wrong, but I'm on the run and didn't have an hour to dedicate to learning how to fix this issue and or researching it. Completely respect what yall do. Thank you. 76.203.221.180 (talk) 00:30, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Should this be added?
A letter by George Washington has sold for $3,218,500 at auction in New York City, setting a world record for a letter by America's first president, according to Christie's.

Washington's 1787 letter to nephew Bushrod Washington argues for the ratification of the newly drafted Constitution.

Here is the link http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091205/ap_en_bu/us_american_literature_auction

--Brian Earl Haines (talk) 17:27, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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more work needed
I added some census slaveholding material, but am not at either library which has ready access to either the published 1787 Virginia tax census (with slaveholdings) or to Fairfax County tax data. Thus, I'm not sure of the name of the other Fairfax County estate, nor how many slaves he might have owned while at Belvidere near Richmond. My post a half hour ago only produced junk mail from North Carolina rather than another phone turnoff, though this 6 month old laptop hasn't been able to complete a security scan in over a week despite a reset a couple of weeks ago feedback to Microsoft.Jweaver28 (talk) 20:59, 30 June 2021 (UTC)


 * a few days ago, and am not sure whether I'll have time in these next couple of days (or weeks) to flesh this out. The Wayland book is in a library reference section, doesn't have an ISBN and can't be checked out, plus I have other responsibilities. I've cited the Binney book available through the internet archive, as well as a article by Gerald Dunne originally published by the Supreme Court Historical Society. The former (at pp. 25-26 of the 35 page article) mentions Bushrod Washington leaving the Supreme Court bench (possibly then in Philadelphia) to address a slave arson attempt at Mt. Vernon, which upset his wife. The latter does cite 2 editions of the Niles Weekly register, but does not include a citation for its Baltimore Federal Republican block quote which was supposedly Washington's response. I've noticed the odd May/August chronology about the 54-slave sale, and will admit that Dunne does not actually draw the distinction between the coffle's odd routing and Bushrod Washington's explanation. FYI Leesburg (now an hour's drive) was at least two days' walk west from Alexandria, and Dunne seems to indicate people in Alexandria knew families were broken up by that multi-slave sale, despite the Justice's apparently printed assurances. Frankly, I suspect few if any of the 54 slaves ever reached Louisiana, and obviously they would have no legal remedy if the alleged contract were just empty paper. Conceivably, the coffle could have been walked westward to the Shenandoah Valley and then south through the Cumberland Gap to Tennessee, and then continued walking to Memphis, from where they could have walked southward or shipped down the Mississippi, which was the "cheaper" but very time-consuming and physically demanding way used by some newbie planters. Obviously, deaths and escapes could have occurred en route. More likely, the slaves would have been sold en route (to planters in the Shenandoah Valley or Kanawha saltworks), or possibly walked "only" to Wheeling or Louisville, and then shipped to Louisiana via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.Jweaver28 (talk) 16:39, 4 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Continued slow changes, since despite Justice Felix Frankfurter's urging decades ago, no one has yet written a scholarly biography of this justice. Yesterday I spoke with someone at Claymont Court, a mansion built by Judge Washington's nephew Bushrod C. Washington who believed several people were researching the transfer of slaves from Tidewater plantations owned by Washington descendants, and what became Jefferson County Virginia in 1802 (and West Virginia in the Civil War). For what its worth, I added the Journal of Negro History article despite disagreeing with the author's conclusion that Judge Washington might've been West Ford's father. I suspect the father was most likely his slightly younger brother Corbin (who was likely shipped off to what was then the Berkeley County property about the time of Ford's birth) or conceivably their father (in which case his mother was very forgiving of the indiscretion, although I also haven't been able to cite-check that reference to her will).Jweaver28 (talk) 16:51, 27 July 2021 (UTC)


 * another slow change to replace a seemingly incorrect as well as derogatory change by editor lacking a wikipedia page and for whom that was the only "contribution", albeit much shorter than the unsourced contribution years ago by another sockpuppet or one-and-done editor on the article for Philip Pendleton Barbour. In order to concentrate today despite continued harassment, I left my phone in the car.Jweaver28 (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

date must be wrong
Prescient? "In 1789 he published a two-volume Reports of the Virginia Court of Appeals, 1790-96" Rainmansara (talk) 05:14, 18 February 2023 (UTC)