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Jane Lane 'Jenny' Bushrod (Corbin)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Middlesex County, Virginia
Death: circa 1757 (40-49)
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Col. Gawin Corbin and Jane Corbin
Wife of Col. John Bushrod, Gent.
Mother of Elizabeth Smith and Hannah Washington
Sister of Alice Needler; Richard Corbin; Anne Currie; John Corbin; Adam Corbin and 1 other
Half sister of Joanna Tucker; Felicia Corbin and Gawin Corbin

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About Jane Lane 'Jenny' Bushrod

Jane "Jenny" Lane CORBIN

  • Birth:  1712 VA
  • Father:  Col. Gawin CORBIN
  • Mother:  Jane LANE

20—3.  Jane Lane, b. 1710-17; m. Col. John Bushrod, of "Bushfield," Westmoreland Co., Va., who served as a Burgess, 1748-55; son of Hon. John and Anne (Bushrod) Bushrod, gr.-dau. of Hon. John and Hannah (Keene) Bushrod, of Gloucester Co., Va., and of Hon. Thomas Bushrod. 

Issue:

  • 21—1.  Hannah, m. John Augustine Washington, of Westmoreland Co., Va., son of Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washington, of "Bridges Creek," and had issue.  (See Washington and Ball lineage.)
  • 21—2.  Elizabeth; untraced...

By Jane Corbin John Bushrod had two daughters:

1. Hannah Bushrod m. abt 1760 John Augustine Washington [brother of George Washington] Issue: Bushrod, Corbin, Mildred and Augustine.

2. Catherine Bushrod m. abt 1762 William Taylor d. 1816; WP 1 Apr 1816 Frederick Co. VA. Settled at "Green Hill" Frederick County, near Berryville, which estate remained in the possession of his descendants until after 1870. Issue: 6.

John Bushrod married 2nd to Mildred Washington, daughter of John Washington & Mary Massey; her 4th husband.


  • http://dgmweb.net/FGS/B/BushrodJohn-JaneLaneCorbin.html
    • 1.  Stella Pickett Hardy.  1911.  Colonial Families of the Southern States of America.  T.A. Wright, New York, NY (republished 1958, Southern Book Co., Baltimore, MD; republished 1965, Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; online at books.google.com). 
  • http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I03867...
  • (AFN: 122P-12T) FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19
  • Date of death c. 1785 per the Find A Grave Memorial of her spouse.
  • “[Diary entry: 22 May 1769],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0004-00.... [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, pp. 153–154.]. Mildred Washington Bushrod (c.1720–1785), of Gloucester County, a cousin of GW, was the sister of Warner Washington, Sr., and the widow of John Bushrod (d. 1760) of Westmoreland County. She had been his second wife, and he her second husband, but she had no children by either of her two marriages, John Bushrod’s daughters Hannah and Elizabeth having been born to his first wife, Jenny Corbin Bushrod (kenner, 177–78; GW to Ruthey Jones, 25 Sept. 1783, DLC:GW
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Jane Lane 'Jenny' Bushrod's Timeline

1712
1712
Middlesex County, Virginia
1738
1738
Bushfield, Westmoreland, Virginia
1748
1748
Westmoreland County, Virginia
1757
1757
Age 45
Westmoreland County, Virginia