He loaned his brother Samuel (five times married) considerable sums, which he forgave in his will, spent "near five thousand dollars" on the education of two of his sons, and cared for several years for a daughter Harriot, notwithstanding the fact that she had "no disposition ...

to be careful of her cloaths." To his nephew, Bushrod Washington, he gave money and helped him to obtain a legal education, and he assisted another nephew, George A.Washington, and his widow and children, in ways already mentioned.

Over forty relatives were remembered in his will, many of them in a most substantial manner.
In the matter of eating and drinking Washington was abstemious.

For breakfast he ordinarily had tea and Indian cakes with butter and perhaps honey, of which he was very fond.

His supper was equally light, consisting of perhaps tea and toast, with wine, and he usually retired promptly at nine o'clock.