Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-04-05

GEORGE, eldest son of Augustine Washingtoo. bv
,ne second marriage was bonn IN Vestmoreland coun-
~, and married January 9th, l759, Martha Gusts
WIDOW OF Danel Fark Curtis and daughter of John
pandrige' both OF New Kent county; has no issue"
From his statement, prepared by Gen. Wash
lngton himself, it appears that he was born sin
Westmoreland county," in 1882, that he was
great grandson of John Washington. who emf
grated to Virginia and settled at Bridges Creek
in Westmoreland, about serenty-Gve wears before
that time, and that his father, grandfather and
grandfather all resided in Westmoreland,
and were all buried in the family vault at Bridges
Creek. Of course, the statement of this Mr..
Field, of Middesex, England, that he, when
boy, saw an old woman, who had seen Gen. WASH
ington's parents when they lived at pretty cot
age in Berkshire, is without a shadow of foun-
dation.
Whilst upon this topic, it may be well to give
connected account of the Washington family,
in England, from the earliest period of which
there Is any record concerning it, down to John
Washington, the great grandfather OF General
Washington. Mr. Sparks investigated the SUBJ
]ect with great care, during visit to England,
and expresses confidently the opinion that the
family descended from gentleman, whose origi-
nal name was William de Her!burn, but who as
sumed the name of Washington Cor Wessyneton
as 1t was then wrtten) from a manor SO allied
in Durham county, of which he was proprietor.
This manor was held in the male line for some
100 years, until about the year I4OO, when it
went into other hands, Henry Washington, a
member of the family, gained distinction in 1916,
| by his gallant defence of the city of Worcester
against the Parliament forces, and Mr. Sparks
thinks it certain that he was the nephew of John
and Lawrence Washington, who emigrated to
America. The following extract from the his
torian's memoir of the Washington family, pre-
scnts continuous geneology, in the direct line,
from the first person certainly known to be an an
cestor of General Washington:
"'The ancestors ofGeneral Washington are traced in
direct line TO Whitfield and Warton in the county OF
| Lancaster. Baker gives pedigree of the family
in Lancaster county for three generations At what
time the of some of the members to the South
took place is uncertain. The earliest notice we have on
the subject is in 1882, when Lawrence Washington.
son of John Washington of Warrior, was Mavor Of
Northampton His mother was daughter OF Robert
alderman of London. From this date The genealogv is
unbroken. Upon the surrender OF the monasteries in
in 1888, the manor of Sulgrave, near Northampton.
which belonged to the Priory of St Andow, was given
up 10 the CROWN and the nexyear this and other
lands in the vicinity, were granted to Lawrence Wash
| ington.
"The death of this Lawrence Washington. accord
ing to Baker occurred on the 18th of February 1885,
The manor OF Lugrave descended to his eldest son,
| Robert 1t was long held in the family, and thence
derived the name of EVashingtons Manor. The first
| Lawrence Washington OF Lugrave had eleven chill
dren four and seven daughters. His edest.son
Robert was twice married. and had sixteen children ten
sons and six daughters. Lawrence the eldest son of
Robert Washington, had fourteen children seven sons
and seven daughters: The edests was Sir William
Washington of Packine,on, who married the half Sis
ter Of George Viers, Duke of Buckingham. as stated
above, and the father las supposedly of Sir Henry
| Washington, the defender Of Worcester The second
and fourth OF these sons were John and Lawrence
Washington who emgrated to Virginia about the wear
1851 They were great grandsons the first Lawrence
| Washington OF Sugrave; and John was the great
grandfather OF General Washington. These particu-
lars may be more at large in Bakers pedigree of
| the family inserted hereafter"
| From this narrative it appears that Gen. WASH
ington's ancestors, before 1882, had their family
seat in Lancaster county, and from that year until
the emigration TO Virginia, in Northamptonshre.
| John, his great grandfather, however, is known to
have lived in the county of York before he left
England. Bakers pedigree, referred to in the
above extract, gives very complete genealogy,
from which we collect the names of the male an.
cestors in the direct line, as follows:
John Washington, of Whitfield, CO. Lane.
| Robert Warrior, sc
| John
Lawrence Northampton, ,grantee of Sui
Robert 8. sulgrave, Northampton. "
John " South Cave, York, (emgrated to