Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-06
which the American flag was derived.


which the American flag was derived.
But at Warrior. on the tower of the
village church, which was built 10y a
still earlier progenitor Of the Father of
His Country, we find again tEe arms
Of the historic family, more venerable
by y whole century than those emblaz-
cued ON the walls of Sulgrave Manor,
and III the main street of the village
home of the Washingtons which
duties back to the 18th century while
in the churchyard of Warton lies the
last member Of the famous line to be
buried in this country.
That the connection of Warrior, and
the acarby village of Tuwhitheld with
the Washington family is not un
known in America is evidenced by the
fact that every year Il certain number
Of Americans visit these villages, Which
lie some six or seven miles from Lam
caster, the capital of the County Pala
tine.
These scattered pilgrims from the
United States, however" says Thomas
Pape, BA the historian and antiquar-
ian. who hos been making deeper re-
searches into the history of the Wash
in"tons than perhaps ever have been
mace before, are, so TO speak, but a
mere drop in the bucket compared to
the stream of pilgrims which would
flow to Warrior if it only We're known
that in this northern village is per
haps the oldest existing record of the
arms of the Washington family.
To understand the association If tie
Washingtons with Warton, and the
connection Of this branch Of the family
with the later occupants of Sulgrave
Manor, it is necessary to go back TO
the family's beginning, the scene of
which, according to the researches
which Papc has been making WAS
neither Lancashire nor Northampton
shire but Yorkshire. the county whose
inhabitants to this day arr supposed to
be mere like Americans imam the folk
of any other part of England.
I'm Yorkshire then, not far from Rich
mond, is a little village named Wash
ngton. which hcnCetorth should top
the list of American shrines' III Eng
land. For not only did the stock from
which the first President of the United
States sprang originate. there. hut il
derived its name from the little place.
According to Harrison, the historian,
it formerly was called Quasslngton,
Washington and Washington ju&ta-
RavensWorth. 1T is not named in
the Domesday Book, adds the writer,
"as the goldable land there was in
cuded with Ravensworth, the whole
then belonging to the nobleman, Bodin,
Akary, the son of Pardolf, the brother
of Bodn, gave the manor OF Washing
ton to Bond fiji Akary, his son, who was
sometimes called Pond de Ravens
worth, and sometimes Bond Gle Wash
ington."
From their little Yorkshire village,
this parent stock of the Washington
family sent branches to Westmoreland
and Northumberland There We're
Washingtons at Milhurne, in the first
mentioned county, and members of this
family evidently settled down in the
County of Durham as well rs in North
Lancashire.
The first of them recorded in the his
tory of the County Palatine, as Lam
cashire is called, was named Robert,
and was the son anad heir of Robert
de Wessington, lord of Milbuane, while
the first Washington to hold land in
Wharton bore the name of John. He
first is mentioned in 1886. or nearly 200