Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-20
INSTITUTIONAL.
Some Interesting Facts About
Washington's Lineage.
The Family and Its old Representatives
lin England Traced-Manor House
Now in Ruins.

The name Of Washington is probably
now called Wharton, in North Riding,
county of Yorkshire. The earliest rec
ord of the name is Of walter FIJI Bondo
de Washington" who, as stated by
Welles, was born at Washington about
A. d. 1850, and died 1916"
Moncure D. Conway finds the earliest
description of the Washington arms in
the Dodsworth MS, wherein is named
Miles. A d. 1906" who was the son
Of Willelmi Dominic de Wessyngton."
His wife was named Dionesia, and he is
one of the witnesses to a charter of
Richard, bishop of Durham, 1S41, where
he is styled Dominic Waltero de Wess-
ington." There is little doubt that the
present village of Washington in Dur
ham derived its name from this family.
Washington Hall, located here, has
lately been sold. The Washington fam
lily occupied the old manor for five CEN
turtles before the hall was built
Much time, labor and expense have
been given by various persons since 1881
to establish the pedigree of the Wash
ington family, but to Mr.. H. F. Waters
of Salem, Mass, now residing in Eng
land, is due the honor of successfully
tracing the lineage of George Wash
ington. The earliest arms of the Wash
ingtons family are: "Gules on Barre
argent cinquefoiles of We first" when
washington changes to Washington, the
arms are "Gules on fessesable 3 null
lets gules;;" with the first appearance
of the name Of Washington, the arms
are: Argent 2 barrs and in cheife 8
moletS gules." These last were used
by George Washington and have been
the family coat of arms for more than
five centuries, and are to be seen on a
brass shield which is in the chapel at
Little Brington, Northamptonshire,
where many of this name lie buried
Our first authentic information con-
corning the family is Of John Washing
ton Of Whitfield, county of Lancaster,
about the 14th century, wife unknown
He had a son, Robert of Wharton, wife
unknown; his son John Of Wharton,
county of Lancaster, married Margarte,
daughter of Robert Kitson of Wharton,
and sister of Sir Thomas Kitson, knight
and alderman Of London. His son,
Lawrence Washington, of Northamp-
tonshire and Grey's Inn, was mayor of
Northampton in 1882 and 1915, and also
grantee of Sulgrave manor and lands
(some Is miles from Northampton, by
Henry VIII, in 1888
The manor house. built of limestone,
is now in ruins. He married Amy,
daughter of Robert Partiger, of Gret-
worth Gent, Northamptonshire, and
died at Sulgrave, Feb. 10, in the Goth
year Of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
His wife died Oct I, 1864. Three gen
erations of the Washington family only
occupied Sulgrave the grandson of the
grantee being obliged to sell it and re-
tire to Brington, about six miles from
Northampton, where the manor house
Is still in existence and in good preser-
vation In the parish church at Sui
grave is a grey slab of Hornton stone,
ON which is the headless effigy Of Law
renee Washington, and the incision for
Ann, his wife Above them, in the CEN
tire, is a shield of the. Washington arms;
below the figure and incision, is the in
scription; and below that, group of
four sons, and another of seven daugh-
ters. During the summer of 1889, these
two groups were stolen. Time and de-
cay have nearly obliterated the whole
Robert the son of Lawrence Wash
ington, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Lighte Of Railway, county Of
Warwick, and succeeded TO the estate.
He sold Sulgrave jointly with his son
the inscription on the grave
stone of the latter at Brington is as
follows: Here lieth the bodie of Law
renee Washington, son and heir of Rob
ert Washington of SulgraVe in the
county Of Northampton, Esquire, who
married Margaret, the eldest daughter
of William Butler of Tees county, Sus-
sex, Esquire, who had issue by her
sons and daughters, which Lawrence
the 18th day of December A.
D., 1916. His son was Lawrence Wash
ington M A, Fellow of Brazcnose Col
lege, Oxford, and rector of PIrleigh, Es-
sex, from 1888 to 164S. He was born
about 1902 and died before 1854 or 5;
he is supposed to have married Amphil-
lis daughter of Rhodes. She was bu-
ried at Tring, county of Herts, january
10, 1854 and s.
Their eldest son. John, was about q
years of age at this time. He with his
brother Lawrence crossed the ocean to
Virginia about 1851 and in the words
of the historian, "he went across the
Atlantic bearing a name which his
great grandson should raise to the loft
lest height of earthly glory, and a coat
of arms which transferred into the
American flag of a mighty nation,
as proudly as the blended crosses of st.
Andrew and st. George" Little is
known Of him before his departure save
that he seems to have taken the side
of the king in the civil wars, and being
concerned in the troubles of 1858, was
obliged to leave the country. He lived
at South Cove in Yorkshire at the time,
where he had acquired an estate. He
settled at Bridges Creek, Va, and was
a prosperous planter between the Po-
tt mac and Rappahannock rivers. He
served as a colonel in an expedition
against the Indians.
He married Ann, daughter of Nathan
iel Pope of Pope's Creek, by whom he
had two sons. Lawrence and John. He
died about 1877. Lawrence, the son,
married Mildred, daughter of Col. Au-
gustus Warner of Gloucester county, by
whom he had three children. John, Au-
gustine and Mildred. He died 1897
Augustine married for his second wife
Mary, daughter of Colonel Ball, March
s, 1870. He died April II, 1743, age 49
years. She died August %, 1899.
Their son, George Washington, was
the eldest of six children, and first saw
the light in Washington parish, West
moreland county, Virginia, February %,
1882, and died December IA, 1893, in the
sixty-eighth year of his age.
THE IMP OF THE PRESS.