In Washington's last moments Lear held his dying hand and later penned a noble description of the final scene that reveals a man of high and tender sentiments with a true appreciation of his benefactor's greatness.

Washington willed him the use of three hundred sixty acres east of Hunting Creek during life.

When Fanny Lear died, Lear married Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Mrs.Washington.
Lear's descendants still own a quilt made by Martha Washington and given to this niece.
During part at least of Washington's absence in the French war his younger brother John Augustine, described in the General's will as "the intimate friend of my ripened age," had charge of his business affairs and resided at Mount Vernon.

The relations with this brother were unusually close and Washington took great interest in John's eldest son Bushrod, who studied law and became an associate justice of the Federal Supreme Court.

To Bushrod the General gave his papers, library, the Mansion House Farm and other land and a residuary share in the estate.
I am inclined to believe that during 1757-58 John Augustine did not have charge, as Mount Vernon seems to have been under the oversight of a certain Humphrey Knight, who worked the farm on shares.