His eulogist wrote: “AMERICANS! he had no child—BUT YOU,—and HE WAS ALL YOUR OWN.” But that wasn’t quite correct.
centuries, everyone in the new United States would have recognized these children. But as far as most Americans in the 21century know, George Washington never had any children. Some may have read the words of George Washington’s most famous eulogist: “AMERICANS! he had no child—BUT YOU,—and HE WAS ALL YOUR OWN.” Who, then, are these children; who was Washington’s family? It was a question I started asking over a decade ago, when I first came across Washington family members in historic records.
There were no comprehensive family trees online. With further digging, I located a Washington descendant who had compiled just what I was looking for: a massive family tree that showed all the descendants of George Washington’s father. It arrived in the mail in a tall poster tube, and the document I unfurled stretched 5 feet long and 2 feet wide. The tree mapped out 10 children , 40 grandchildren, 130 great-grandchildren, and around 300 great-great-grandchildren.
With four children aged 5 or under on her hands, Eleanor Calvert Custis might well have been overwhelmed. Martha, missing having children in the house, offered to take Nelly and Wash and raise them at Mount Vernon with George. This would not have been unusual at the time, and Eleanor and her elder daughters lived close by and visited regularly. There was as of yet no legal form of adoption, but people referred to Nelly and Wash as George’s “adopted” children.
Is Edward Savage’s family portrait really the Washington family, then? It turned out that the answer to my question—who was George Washington’s family?—was far more complicated than I imagined. Over more than a decade, I have searched through images, objects, houses, financial records, letters, and diaries scattered over museums and archives from Boston to New Orleans.
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