Ancestry of
George Washington

1st U.S. President

John Washington

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• • Great-grandfather of George Washington — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Lawrence Washington 
  • Mother:
  • Amphyllis Twigden   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1634 
  • Birth Location:
  • Purleigh, Essex, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 14 Aug 1677 to 26 Sep 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington Parish, Westmoreland, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Pope
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF Jan 1658 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Westmoreland County, Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lawrence Washington (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Ann Washington

  John Washington

  • Notes: 

  • It is said that John Washington arrived in Virginia in 1658 in a ship owned by Edward Prescott and commanded by Captain John Greene. On the voyage, a passenger named Elizabeth Richardson was suspected of being a witch by Captain Greene and his sailors. She was hung and her body tossed into the sea. Washington later received a summons to appear in court as a witness to the execution.

• Sources for John Washington

  • ¹ History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration, Volume 3, Washington, D.C.: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1932), 582.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1975, Vol. 51, pp. 167-168.
  • ³ Fiske, John, Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Cambridge: The Riverside Press (1902), 31.
  • ⁴ Hoppin, Charles Arthur, The Washington Ancestry: and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families, Greenfield, Ohio: Privately Printed (1932), Vol. 1, pp. 340, 391.
  • ⁵ Kennedy, Mary Selden, Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families, Volume 1, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1911), 344.
  • ⁶ King, George Harrison Sanford, Marriages of Richmond County, Virginia 1668-1853, Fredericksburg, Virginia: G.H.S. King (1964), 269.
  • ⁷ Ritchie, Anne Reed, Supplement - Corrections and Additions to Major Francis Wright and Ann Washington, with Allied Families, Milwaukie, Oregon: A.R. Ritchie (c1979), 80.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 430, 567, 663.
  • ⁹ Watson, Annah Robinson, Of Sceptred Race, Memphis, TN: Early Printing and Publishing Company (1910), 82.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "John Washington", (accessed 11/10/2013).