John Washington

John Washington

John Washington (c. 1631-1677) was a Virginia planter and politician. He was the great-grandfather of George Washington, first president of the United States of America.

Washington, son of Lawrence, was born in Purleigh, Essex, England around 1631 and emigrated to the Colony of Virginia in 1656. He had been second officer on a merchant ship that foundered in the Potomac River, but left after the ship was refloated.cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=p8RBlp8bNpwC
title=Historic Homes of the American Presidents
author=Irvin Haas
year=1992
publisher=Courier Dover Publications
isbn=0486267512]

Washington married Anne Pope, daughter of plantation owner Nathaniel Pope, in 1658. Their wedding gift from Pope consisted of convert|700|acre|km2 on Mattox Creek in Westmoreland County of Virginia's Northern Neck.

Washington became a successful planter. He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. During the events leading to Bacon's Rebellion, he was appointed a Colonel in the Virginia militia and led a company of men to back a group of Marylanders during a supposed parley. Six chiefs of various tribes were killed, and retaliations increased. [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fRQOAAAAIAAJ
title=The History of Our Country: From Its Discovery by Columbus to the Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
author=Abby Sage Richardson
year=1875
publisher=H. O. Houghton and Company] He was criticized for this by William Berkeley, but received popular support. [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=atR5HHm8PawC
title=George Washington
author=Henry Cabot Lodge
year=1917
publisher=Houghton Mifflin]

The local parish of the Anglican Church (the established church in Virginia, and thereby a tax district of the county) was changed to Washington in his honor.

His brother-in-law was Christopher Gist, the great-grandfather of General Mordecai Gist.

Children

*Anne (1658-1697)
*Lawrence Washington (1659-1698) (son was Augustine Washington 1694-1743) Lawrence was the grandfather of George Washington.
*Richard (1660-1674)
*John ( http://groups.to/familiesrforever/)

References

External links

* [http://www.clements.umich.edu/Exhibits/g.washington/case.05/case05.html George Washington artifacts]


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