The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-03-29
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4 Scrap Of History About Ills An.
eestry.
Virginia Gazette

Virginia Gazette
Mr. Brock read before the Virginia
Historical society letter IRON Col. 10.
seph l.. Chester, OF London, England,
VINO writes ii shall soon devote nv
self 10 an exhaustive history OF the WASH
ington family of England, Tor which 1
have been collecting materials during
the last fifteen pears. You are probably
aware that have destroyed the existing
pedigree OF the illustrious president. and
left him for the moment without an
ancestor. My great anxiety now is to
tra9c his true ancestry, and i hope
TO be successful; but the diff
Guilty is greater than would be ma
1 uraily supposed. Any facts you can give
| me from tue records OF your state laAd
registry, say previous 10 100. could not
fail 10 prove OF the greatest possible SER
| vice 10 me. What | want. beyond every
| thing else. Is a copy OF the last will OF
| John ashiugton, the euligrant: but
| this tear is hopele- by lost, unless it can
| be found among the papers OF Bishop
Meade; or II you could possibly, ascertain
| anything about the name OF the first wife
| OF John Washington. who. in his will
| dated september -. 1915, he states that
he brought from England and buried on
| his plantation. with her two children
The Virginia Historical society report
Ell ''thc Virginia Land Registry Office
gives the uate OF the first patent OF land
TO Major John Washington as June !,
| 1854. The quantity conveyed Wa. 5000
acres IN Northumberland or We,tmore.
land county. In 1861 patent was
| granted TO him and Thomas Pope
jointly. In succeeding patent, granted
| to Lieutenant John Washington. the
lands were described "a adj dining Ma
thaniel Pope. grant Of land to Mrs.
Anne Pope alias Washington. for lands
In Westnoreland county. and dated Jam
| uary 10. lGGl, is also Oh record. She was
| the second wife OF Colonel John Wash
| ington.
| I'm the recorded grants Of land to
| members OF the Pope famIly-in one to
Thomas Pope-he is mentioned as the
son OF Nathaniel, who received early ex-
tensive grants OF land, and must have
been man OF influence.
There Il some ground Tor the assum-
| ton that Thoma- Pope. who was asso-
| clated with John Washington. was the
| brother Of the second wife OF the latter.
| and that they Anna and Thomas Pope
| were the children OF the Nathanial Pope
| already cited, who, ii is more than prob
| able, was the ancestor Of the present
| 'N' y AN-pvTNNaoiC Al mia ldtuliN VI LtIs
name, branches ofwhich furnished PROM
inant representatives in kentucky and
several of the Western State. IL is sig.
nlfcant that in the various scattered
branches OF this family the Christian
name Nathaniel is still fayorite one and
| inevitably appears. The reelection that
| they are coliaterally connected with the
Father OF His Country may not 5e an I'M
pleasant one to those implicated.
IF it can be established that there had
been no issue TO John Washington. the
| emigrsnt, prior to his settlement in the
colony in 1000, there appears to be good
ground for the assumption that the two
children mentioned by him "a having
been buried on his plantation with his
wife were the only issue by her, since he
was already married again in January,
1861, to Anne Pope. and the maternal
ancestress OF Gen. George Warrington
would thus be positively assumed in
Anne Pope"