The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

Two weeks after George Washington’s death in December 1799, the American statesman Gouverneur Morris rose before a rapt crowd of mourners in New York and declared of the late first president ...

Washington is the “father of our country” but did not father children. How committed was George Washington to his country? He led the American armies from 1775 to 1783 during the Revolution.

A 2021 interview in which Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) criticized Vice President Harris for lacking biological children calls to mind the five U.S. presidents who also had no biological offspring.

George and Martha Washington had no children together, and the former President bequeathed Mount Vernon to his nephew Bushrod, Hannah and John’s son. (Washington, in his will, ...

George Washington’s Runaway Slave, Harry. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ... Onboard a ship named L’Abondance in July 1783, along with 405 other black men, women and children, ...