Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-11-06
WAsHINGToN,s GENEALoGY.
It Has Been EIaborately Traced II
Connection with Sulgrave Man.
or, Northampton hire.

Connection with Sulgrave NAM
or, Northamptons hire.
Some excitement appears to have
been caused in the United States b3
the announcement that Sulgravt
manor, in Northamptonshire, once
the home Of the ancestors of George
Washington, is for sale. The projecI
set on foot in America many years age
for purchasing Shakespeare's birth.
place at Stratford-on-Ayon and re.
erecting it in the new land, whick
claims a common heritage with our.
selves in the greatest master Of the
English tongue, was not alloweu tie
succeed, and its renewal would now
be impossible. George Washington.
however, is quite another story. Il
we make a possible exception of the
ak and the cherry tree, no legends
have gathered round his name. He
Lived within the memory of some whe
have not long been dead, and NC
cryptogram can ever explain away the
great historic facts of his famous ca
reer. It is therefore not very surpris.
ing that hopes should arise of achiev-
ing at Sulgrave what failed at STRAIT
ford. Certain it is that the projectors
of the worlds fair at ST. Louis are in
treaty for the purchase of the pictur.
esque old house which was the abode
of the Washingtons in the days of
their prosperity, with the idea of
Transporting it, brick by brick and
stone by stone, to the great city which
has grown up in the far west, states
the London Standard.
It is, no doubt, difficult to set bounds
to the extravaga Of hero-worship,
especially when the hero concerned
was so fine a character as the first
president, and the virtual founder Of
powerful state. But the connection
of Gen. Washington with Sulgrave
manor is exceedingly remote. His
family parted with it half a dozen gen
| erations before he was born, and it
is quite possible that he never even
| heard of the place. Nor is Sulgrave
in any sense stately home" It is
a gabled, Uncovered, sixteenth cen
| fury farmhouse, with about the same
number of rooms as the typical sub
urban villa To Americans the most
attractive detail of the house is the
presence, both within and without the
entrance porch, of the Washington
arms, carved in stone-two red bars
and three stars upon silver ground,
or in the heraldic tongue, s'argent,
| two bars, gules; in Chief, three null
lets of the second" Here we certainly
seem to have the origin of the stars
and stripes of the United States flag,
Washington is Known to have worn
these arms upon his signet-ring, al
though it has been eontended by pur-
lists in armory that he was not per-
sonally entitled to use them.
The shields were probably placed in
the Su1grave porch by Laurence Wash
ington, lord Of the manor, who was
twice mayor of Northampton in the
time of Henry VIII, from whom he had
received grant of lands which had
belonged to the priory of Canons Ash
| by. His son Robert was the last, as
| he had been the first, Washington of
| Su1grave, for some 20 years after his
death, in 1884, the little estate (Which
| now extends to 200 acres) had to be
sold. the family migrating to Brighton,
| not far away, perhaps to be near their
| powerful relations, the Spencers of
Althorp. Laurence Washington, the
grandson of the lord of Sulgrave, is
buried in Great Brighton church, with
| others of the name, and their tombs
have long been objects of pilgrimages
from over the water. Th family was
very pro1ifc-Laurence of Sulgrave
had IL children, and his grandson,
Laurence of Brighton, II.
Two of the sons born to the latter
were knighted, and the oldest, Sir
William Washington, was the brother
in-law of no less a parsonage than
George Villiers, duke of Buckingham.
John Washington, who emigrated to
Virginia in 1859, and became the great
grandfather of the president, was the
son of another Laurence, an Essex
clergyman, evicted from his living dur
| ing the Commonwealth. The pedigree
of this family of old English yeomen
| was long crux to genealogists, and
| it was not until that remarkable
searcher of records, the late Col. Lem
uel Chester. took it in hand, that the
way was made plain He came to Eng
land to settle doubtful points during
a six months holiday. He remained
for generation. and it was not long
before he died faint, yet pursuing"
that he unraveled his last knot, and
| made it finally clear that from the
modest home at sulgrave issued the
line which eliminated in the great
genius who now sleeps amid the
expresses on the banks of the Potomac.
How Jnvanese Induce Sleep.
DR.. Steiner observed in Java a
method employed to induce sleep. It
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