We have George Washington and our founders—and Moses Seixas too—to thank for it. And two letters written on the same summer day back in 1791. Vince Benedetto is the founder and president of ...

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 ...

George Washington’s Runaway Slave, Harry. ... but at the end of his life the couple owned 317 slaves together. ... Washington’s personal servant, ...

They were later split among the president’s great-nephews. And one of those great-nephews, George Corbin Washington, was “always hard up for cash,” Buchtel noted. In 1848, George C. Washington sold ...