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He was the brother of President George Washington and the third son of Mary Ball and Augustine Washington. John Washington married Hannah Bushrod (1735-1801) in 1756 and lived with her in the Washington family estate, Mount Vernon, until 1759 when her father John Bushrod became illinois Hannah inherited Bushfield where she and her family remained and increased to six children.
John Augustine and Hannah are believed to be buried on the grounds of Bushfield, but no stone remains to mark their graves in the family plot.
A stone in his honor was erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution in the churchyard of Pohick Church in 1986.