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- Herausgeber: Charles River Editors
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE ALLEGED ANCESTRY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Exposing a Serious Error in the Existing Pedigree
Joseph Chester
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE ALLEGED ANCESTRY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
AN EXPOSURE OF A SERIOUS ERROR IN THE PEDIGREE OF WASHINGTON.
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE ALLEGED ANCESTRY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;
EXPOSING A
SERIOUS ERROR IN THE EXISTING PEDIGREE.
BY
JOSEPH LEMUEL CHESTER,
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, AND THE ESSEX ARCHÆLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND; MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE SURREY ARCHÆLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, ETC. ETC.
AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF JOHN ROGERS, THE MARIAN PROTOMARTYR, ETC. ETC.
AN EXPOSURE OF A SERIOUS ERROR IN THE PEDIGREE OF WASHINGTON.
By Joseph Lemuel Chester.
IN THE YEAR 1791 SIR Isaac Heard, then Garter King of Arms, compiled a pedigree of the family of George Washington, then the first President of the United States, and transmitted a copy thereof to him, asking his opinion as to its correctness, and requesting him to add to it any other particulars within his knowledge.To this communication Washington responded on the 2nd of May,1792, thanking Sir Isaac for his attention, and sending certain information respecting the more modern history of his family,but confessed that it was a subject to which he had paid very little attention, and that he could not fill up with much accuracy the sketch sent him. This document, which was of considerable length, would now be almost priceless as an autograph,but it has unfortunately disappeared.A volume, containing the original letter and other collections relating to the same subject, passed subsequently, after Sir Isaac’s death, into the possession of the late Mr. Pulman, Clarencieux.It was seen and examined by Mr. Jared Sparks when collecting materials for his biography of Washington,but cannot now be found.
Sir Isaac took as the basis of his pedigree the Heraldic Visitations of Northamptonshire, in which the Washington family was included. Starting with the well-known fact that the first emigrants of the name to Virginia were two brothers named John and Lawrence Washington, who left this country for that colony about the year 1657, he found recorded in the Visitation of 1618 the names of John and Lawrence, described as sons of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave in that county who had died in the year 1616. The names being identical with those of the Virginia emigrants, and the period at which they lived not altogether inappropriate. Sir Isaac assumed their personal identity; and on this assumption constructed his pedigree, deducing the descent of the American President through this heraldic family of Northamptonshire from the still more ancient one of the name in Lancashire.It is but just to the memory of Sir Isaac to say that he himself only regarded the pedigree as a conjectural one, and that he took the precaution to leave on the margin of his own copy a note (which was seen and copied .by Mr. Sparks) to the effect that he was not clearly satisfied that the connection of the President with the Sulgrave family was or could be substantiated.
Some years afterwards when Mr. Baker was preparing his History of Northamptonshire he pursued, in reference to his account of the Washington family,aprecisely similar course. Either he acted independently, basing his pedigree on the same assumption, or, which is most probable, he had access to the collections of Sir Isaac Heard; and,presuming that Sir Isaac had thoroughly investigated the subject, adopted the pedigree which he had constructed. Sir Isaac’s ‘explanatory note, if seen, was ignored, and Baker confidently published the pedigree with the statements that John Washington, of the Sulgrave family, was afterwards of South Cave, in the county of York; that his brother Lawrence was a student at O
