![]() ![]() The cruel Custom of hurrying a poor Creature into a Coffin as soon as the managers of the business (who are Generally indeed people quite indifferent about the deceased or the most ignorant) suppose them dead. I shall try to explain my desire which I hope will be Sufficient. I trust that they will make every allowance for the defects which they may meet with here, –. In the name of God amen I Hannah Washington of Bushfield in the parish of Cople and County of Westmoreland being Sound in mind though weak in body and health make this my last will and Testament, I am very Conscious of my great inability in drawing up any instrument of writing yet as none except my dearest friends will be at all Concerned about it. Mentions of West Ford and Venus and Jenny (Venus' mother) and Billey (Jenny's husband) are mentioned in bold. ![]() Hannah lived on the Bushfield Plantation where West and Venus (mother of West) were slaves. ![]() Below is the Last Will and Testament of Hannah Bushrod, wife of John Augustine Washington, brother of George Washington (from private papers of LABH). ![]()
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