The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-12
HISTORICAL.
Paper Read af Meeting of Peter Torney
 Chapter, January 6.


 Paper Read nf Meeting of Peter Fsrney
 Chapter, 5anunry 6.
 Although under our republican form of government, neither birth nor lina- age give titles or honor and inborn pat riotisrn and energetic action constitute the only right to place or respect. Yet my ancestry has always been of the tntensest interest to me and from my earliest childhood I've had their deeds told me and so distinguished were many of them that I found them in my school books. Of these I will give you q short sketch. as 1t was written for me many years ago by an uncle, who has now passed into the Beyond himself.
 Carthage, Tenn. August, 1889.
 For the qualification of the descend- ants of Judge John Lewis Goodall pen the following in regard to their lineage and some of their distinguished ances- tors.
 Judge J. l.. aoodali was the erand- son of General Alexander E. Spotswood and Elizabeth Lewis Spotswood, his wife. General A. F.. Spotswood was the son of General Alexander Spots- wood, Sr.. and Elizabeth washinrtou. daughter of Augustine washingtou. and niece of General George washinR- ton. This is the Elizabeth Spotswood mentioned In the will of President Washington.
 Gen. Alex Spotswood ST.. was Inc grandson of Governor Alexander Spots- wood. who was Governor of the colony of Virginia from 1710 until 1722 and to whom the Parliament of Great Brit. aln voted gold horse shoe for mer{ itorious services in the army After which he was often called the .Knighf 5of the Golden Horseshoe Governnr Spotswood died about 1730 and was buried at Williamsburg the old cap- itol. where . tombstone still stands 10 mark his grave. He was the grandson of Sir Robert Spotswood. Lord Presi- dent of the Court of Sessions. Scotland. who was beheaded for his liberal and democratic views
 Judge Gooda1ls grandmother FSilxa- beth Lewis Spotswood. was the daugl- ter of Fielding Lewis IT.. who was the son of Fielding Lewis, Sr.. and Bettie, the only sister of Gen. George Washington. Hence Judge Goodail was a descendant of two branches of the Washington family and is the great great grandson of both Augustine ana Bettie the brother and the sister of Gen. George Washington. who was oft- en the guest of Gen. Alex D. Spota- wood when visiting his mother and sis- ter at Fredericksburlk. While on one of these visits he named and stood godfather to Judge Goodafl's mother. As Judge Goodall's great uncle Law renee Lewis married Nellie CustIs. granddaughter of Mrs. Gen. Washing ton, he (the Judge) was only thus re. lated to the Custis family. Of many of the foregoing facts have a per- sonal knowledge, others learned through my mother, Judge GoodalPa mother. the histories of Scotland, and from Bishop Mead's history of the old families of Virginia. Through the English law of heredity and custom the aforesaid golden horseshoe dee scended to Gen. Alex Spotswood, Sr.. fn thence to my uncle Alex Spotswood. who took 1t to Glasgow, Ky, and had 1t worked into Jewelry which he gave to the girls, and for which sacrilego grandfather partly disinherited him.
 J. c. Dodge-Thts J. c. Dodge waa my fathers own cousin, and my unclos as he married my aunt, and prize this old letter mainly because it was written for me--as knew all the main facts before 1t was written. As you see, George Washington's only sfs- ter-Bettie Lewts--was by grand mos ther Godall's great grandmother, and Washington himself her great nncIa.I My great grandfather, General A. Es Spotswood, served through the Rovo1u- ton under a generals commission. My great grandfather Fielding Lewis, Jrs served as capta4n, and his father. Fielding Lewis. Sr., served as an active member of the Committee of Safety
 
 arms and provisions for the army. He was the brother-in-law of General Washington, and was called 'Thc Pa~ triot," although too old to serve in the army. Grandfather Spotswood moved from Virginia to Barren County, ky. about 1906. where he died and is bur- fed. My fathers mother was mar ried a second time and so far as know, her only surviving children, my fathers half brothers and my uncles George and Henry Andersong of l4ouis- vile, Ky, are the nearest living rela- tives by ties of blood to George Wash ington. ..
 My maternal grandfather, General John White Simpson, was an ofiior 0n the staff of General Andrew K y;sen and fought at the battle of New OH leans. from which engagement hr ceived a wound which he carried ta F- grave at the age of 80 years.
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