Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-29
AMONG THE ARCHIVES.
George Washington Not the First Rebel
by That Name.
From tie Richmond Dispatch.

From the HicbmOsld Df8D1fch.
our George Washington was not the
frs of that name who was a rebel to a
King OF Great Britain. At the Ber-
muda Assizes, held November 1922,
10j0-
The Jury of our Soveraigne Lord, the
Hinge, doe present George Washington,
of HambletOn Tribe, Taylor, as a false
Traytor against our most gratiOus and
dread SOveraigne and his Ledge Lord.
the Hinge, &c, hayeinge not the feare OF
God in his hearte, but seduced by the
InstgatiOn of the devil, malici0usly and
traytorously, on the 25th day Of December,
in the year of our Lord lG4S, at the house
OF Roger Axiom Aston? in the said Tribe,
did then and there advisedly and directly
speak and say in the hearing Of the said
Roger Axiom these wOrds-yizt., The King
has sOuld his subjects TO Popery; and
farther, the said George Washington did
then and there maliclously and traytOr-
Ously say the Hinge was Rogue and
deserved to bee hanged years ago. The
said George Washington having uttered
all those traytOrOus and malicious words
to the takinge away of his Majesty's
whole power, and that he was nor is sorry
therefore, to the great scandal and derOga-
ton Of the person and Royalty of our said
Soyereigne Lord the Hinge. to the subYer-
sion Of the state to the Realme OF England,
aud the government ofthis place and con-
trary to a form Of a Statute in that case
made and provided, and alsOe against the
peace Of our Soyereigue Lord the Hinge
his crown and dignity.
"TO which Indictment, being by the
Grand Inquest found a true bill, hee
pleaded not guilty, and for his further
trysl did put himselfe upon God and the
/ Country, which beinge a Jury of II sworne
men, did find him guilty, whereupOn he
prayed his appeale for England, which
was granted him"
ut was known in the Bermudas July 5,
1919, that Charles /. was beheaded; but
the government there acknowledged all
legiahee 60 CHARLES III
] believe the above George Washington
to be OF the same family as our George
Washington When the Virginia COM
pany OF London sold the Bermudas to the
Somer Islands company the quantity of
land there was OVerestimated, and the
Virginia company afterwards agreed to
make up or this deficiency in Virginia.
In 1853 the Somer Islands company
petition t'fhe Right Hon'ble the Lords
| COMMISSIONERS for FOrraigne PlantacOns."
~ And whereas yor petitIO'rs
doe ind an Agreement made betweene the
/ Company Of Virginia and yOr said petit
| tiO'rs when yOr petitio'rs purchased the
]
/ Virginia. That yOr petitiO'rs should re-
ceaVe a large prOpOrcon of Land in Nir-
ginia. To be and continew unto yOT petit
tio'ers forever, in consideration of the
! great defect Of the quantity of Land found
! in the said Somer Islands.
"And whereas there is in Virginia a
! reasonable proportion of land, scituate
and being betwiZt the two Rivers of
RapahanOck and PatOwmeck, w'ch by
] N n - n1 fin 10 ~
be both healthfull and otherwise con-
Veninet, not yet Inhabited by any Of his
Mates Subjects, nor any grant there of
yet passed TO any
Your peutio'rs' humble desire, there
fore, is that yo'r Loops WILDE pleased 20
| be a meanes unto his Mate to Grant unto
| yO'r petitio'rs the said propOrcon OF Land
Detweene the two rivers of Rapahan0ck
| and PatOwmeck aforesaid, w'ch Will
much c0nduce to the benefit and comfort
OF his Ma'tie's subjects ighO are ySsue Out
| Of the said Islands, and the strengthing
OF his Ma'tie's Colony in Virginia.
"And yo'r petiuo'rs shall ever pray,
&c"
lEndorsed.l SAT Whitehall the 2S Of July,
| 1879.
"Theyr lips dee pray and require The
sub comittee for tOraigue Plantations tc
consider Of this Petition, and 20 make
Report of theyr opinion touching the
same, TO the BOord.
"WGLL: BECHER."
And so, without pursuing the subject
father, as it grows too long, not only the
Washingtons, but many other settlers in
the present counties of Lancaster
northumberland, Richmond, Westmore
land, &c, came from England via the
Bermudas or from the Bermudas direct.
ALEXANDER BROWN.
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trhc islands were beginning to be over.
populated
Education Of the Southern negro