Charles McSwain Birth: 13 Aug 1786 in North Carolina Death: 19 Dec 1848 Burial: Cedar Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Norwood, Stanly Co., NC Father: David McSwain b: 1 Mar 1734 in Maryland Mother: PriscillaMarriage Lewraner Washburn b: 5 Dec 1794 Children: William Adney McSwain b: 5 Nov 1814 in North Carolina Margaret McSwain Gabriel Washburn McSwain b: 25 Jan 1817 in North Carolina Priscilla D. McSwain b: ABT 1818 in North Carolina Eunice (Nicey) McSwain b: 12 Aug 1819 in North Carolina Catherine McSwain b: ABT 1823 in North Carolina Charles J. McSwain b: ABT 1824 in North Carolina George A. McSwain b: ABT 1825 in North Carolina Nancy McSwain b: 22 Aug 1828 in North Carolina Martin Moore McSwain b: ABT 1829 in North Carolina David K. McSwain b: ABT 1830 in North Carolina Minor M. McSwain b: ABT 1832 in North Carolina Sarah Ann McSwain b: 14 Sep 1834 in North Carolina Marriage 2 Sarah Lucy Throckmorton Children Thomas Asbury McSwain b: ABT 1849 in North Carolina -- David Holden, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dwh1951&id=I94548 Lurane R McSwain Birth unknown Death Sep. 15, 1847 Spouse Charles McSwain (____ - 1848) daughter Eunice McSwain Upchurch (1819 - 1897) Note: Age at death 50 Yrs & 10 days Burial Cedar Grove UMC Cemetery, Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina Created by William Poplin Apr 26, 2012 -- Find A Grave Memorial #89158462, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89158462
Mary Jane Washburn Birth: 10 Aug 1835 in North Carolina Death: 9 Feb 1875 Burial: Sunset Cemetery, Section Old 1, Shelby, Cleveland Co., NC -- David Holden, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dwh1951&id=I664
Several sources provide us the vital information for Patience A Washburn. I first learned her name on the list of marriages of Greenes in Rutherford County. (See notes for George McSwain Green.) Her birth and death information is provided in the Washburn genealogy (no URL available for the PDF I downloaded). PATIENCE WASHBURN, b. April 09, 1830, Shelby, N.C.; d. May 08, 1890, Shelby, Sunset Cemetery, N.C. This Washburn Genealogy also provides the full names of her children. I had also found the full names of some on the Greene Marriage list for Rutherford County, North Carolina. 43. PATIENCE WASHBURN (ABRAHAM2, GABRIEL1) was born April 09, 1830 in Shelby, N.C., and died May 08, 1890 in Shelby, Sunset Cemetery, N.C. She married GEORGE M. GREEN. He was born May 26, 1817 in Shelby, N.C., and died June 06, 1889 in Shelby, Sunset Cemetery, N.C. Children of PATIENCE WASHBURN and GEORGE GREEN are: NANCY VICTORIA GREEN, b. June 11, 1859, Cleveland, N.C. JEFFERSON DAVIS GREEN, b. June 08, 1861, Cleveland, N.C.; d. June 14, 1936, Blair, Ok. MARY JANE GREEN, b. November 24, 1864, Boiling Springs, N.C. CHARLES CRAWFORD GREEN, b. January 21, 1870, Shelby, N.C.; d. March 02, 1929, Shelby, Sunset Cemetery, N.C.
1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 27 August, page 294, Hse/Fam #451 Susan Harrill 53 F $200 Real Estate b SC [b abt 1797] Dicy Harrill 21 F NC [b abt 1829] John T Harrill 20 M Farmer NC [b abt 1830] Priscilla Harrill 19 F b NC [b abt 1831] Robert E Harrill 17 M Farmer b NC [b abt 1833] Delphi S Harrill 15 F NC [b abt June 1835] Daniel W Harrill 13 M b NC [b abt 1837]
-------------------------------- Augustine, second son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married for his second wife, Mary Ball; their oldest son was George Washington (President of the United States); their only daughter, Betty Washington, was the second wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, by whom she had a numerous progeny, notable in themselves and their descendants. Mildred, the only daughter of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married, first, Roger Gregory, by whom she had three daughters, Mildred, Frances, and Elizabeth, who married three brothers, Colonel John, Colonel Francis, and Reuben Thornton; she married, secondly, Colonel Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, by whom she had a son, Colonel Lewis Willis, and a daughter, Anne, who married Duff Greenv John Lewis, the son of Colonel Fielding and Catherine (Washington) Lewis, was married five times. First, to Lucy Thornton, youngest daughter of Colonel John Thornton and Mildred Gregory, by whom he had a daughter, Mildred (the sister of Lucy Thornton married Samuel Washington, brother of the President, General William Woodford of the Revolution, and John Taliaferro of Dissington). Secondly, John Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton, daughter of Colonel Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory, by whom he had no child. One of the brothers of his second wife was the gallant Colonel John Thornton of the Revolution, who married Jane, daughter of Augustine Washington, elder half-brother of the President, and was the ancestor of the wife of Senator James B. Beck, and Mildred, one of the sisters of his second wife was the wife of Charles Washington, younger full-brother of the President. John Lewis' third wife was a daughter of Gabriel Jones, widely known in Virginia during his own generation, and remembered for years after all who knew him had passed away as "The Valley Lawyer." The fourth wife of John Lewis was Mary Anne Fontaine, the widow Armistead, her father of that excellent Huguenot stock, her mother a Winston, of the same blood as Patrick Henry, the South Carolina Prestons, and Mrs. Madison. John Lewis' fifth wife was Mildred Carter, widow of Robert Mercer, a son of the Princeton hero. She was a daughter of Landon Carter, her mother being a daughter of Colonel Lewis Willis. It is a noteworthy circumstance that the two first wives of John Lewis were granddaughters of his great aunt, Mildred Washington, by her first husband, Roger Gregory, and his fifth and last wife, her great-granddaughter by her second husband, Colonel Henry Willis." - From Courier-Journal Genealogies -- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 75, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c -------------------------------- The Mt Veronon plantation where the mansion was later built was in Prince William County, but fell within the boundaries of the new Fairfax County when it was established in 1742. -------------------------------- Fairfax County was formed in 1742 from the northern part of Prince William County. It was named for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693-1781), proprietor of the Northern Neck.[8][9] The Fairfax family name is derived from the Old English phrase for "blond hair" - Faeger-feahs. The oldest settlements in Fairfax County were along the Potomac River. George Washington settled in Fairfax County and built his home, Mount Vernon, facing the river. Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason is nearby. Modern Fort Belvoir is partly on the estate of Belvoir Manor, built along the Potomac by William Fairfax in 1741. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the only member of the British nobility ever to reside in the colonies, lived at Belvoir before he moved to the Shenandoah Valley. The Belvoir mansion and several of its outbuildings were destroyed by fire immediately after the Revolutionary War in 1783, and George Washington noted the plantation complex deteriorated into ruins. -- Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia -------------------------------- Millennium File Augustine (Capt) Washington Gender Male Birth 1694 Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA Death 12 Apr 1743 Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia, USA Spouse Mary Ball Spouse Father Joseph (Col) Ball Spouse Mother Mary? Bennett Marriage Date 6 Mar 1731 Children: Samuel Washington; John Augustine Washington; George(St Pres.) Washington "Augustine Washington Departed this Life the 12th Day of April 1743" -- Washington Family Bible, photo courtesy of MtVernon.org, posted 2 July 2018 by FamilySearch.org, accessed 3 September 2018 Captain Lawrence Augustine Washington - death: 12 April 1743; Ferry Farm, Stafford County, Virginia, British Colonial America -- Debrett's Presidents of the United States of America, David Williamson, Salem House Publishers 1989 ISBN 0-88162-366-0, on FamilySearch.org ------------------ Augustine Washington, Sr BIRTH 12 Nov 1694 Westmoreland, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA DEATH 12 Apr 1743 (aged 48) Ferry Farm, Stafford County, Virginia, USA BURIAL George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Latanes, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Popes Creek Plantation Plot Father of George Washington, America's first President. The British were well established in America with thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution led by George Washington culminating in independence from England and the formation of a united county. Cities, seaports, schools, churches and thriving industry doted the landscape. In the south, large plantations sprang up, constructed and operated by cheap labor in the form of slaves imported from Africa. By the time of the marriage of Jane Butler and Augustine Washington Sr., three family generations had past since George's Great Grandfather John Washington had immigrated to the Colonies during the British Civil War in 1631. The extensive family became prosperous and thriving when Augustine Washington was born in 1694 in Westmoreland County, Virginia on his father's plantation. He was only four when his father died and his inheritance consisted of 1,000 acres on Bridges Creek (Popes Creek). When Augustine came of age, he married Jane Butler, an orphan with considerable wealth of her own. The couple settled on his inherited property and quickly constructed a new house called "Wakefield." He developed the land known as Popes Creek Plantation into a modest but successful farming venture. In addition to cultivating tobacco, he was active in the church, local politics and served at various times as justice of the peace and county sheriff. The marriage would produce two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr. Jane would pass away in 1728 and three years later Augustine would marry a second time to Mary Ball. Their first born would be George destined to be the first President of the United States. Although born in the "Wakefield Mansion," he would only spend the first three years of his life as the family moved many times, living at various plantations owned by Augustine Sr. The family lastly settled at Ferry Farm Plantation near Frederiksburg where Augustine owned and operated Accokeek Iron Furnace located nearby. Five other children followed...Samuel, Elizabeth, John Augustine, Charles, and Mildred (died in infancy). When Augustine Washington Sr. died in 1743 at Ferry Farm, he left his wife Mary Ball with many small children but well provided. George the oldest was but eleven. He along with other family members conveyed their father's remains by land and river 35 miles back to Popes Creek where they buried him beside his first wife and near his father and grandfather at the Washington family burial ground (Popes Creek Cemetery.) Mary would continue to live with her children and operate Ferry Farm with enslaved labor until selling the farm and moving into the town of Fredericksburg in 1774. Soon after the death of his father, George would live with his half brother Augustine Washington Jr. (Austin) in order to pursue an education at the Henry Williams School in Westmoreland County. At age fifteen he was a land surveyor. His first assignment was a land survey of 22 acres at Popes Creek. Legacy...In 1779, William, the son of Augustine Washington Jr., accidently burned down "Wakefield" after building a large fire in the mansion fire place then leaving to attend Episcopal church services on Christmas day. A spark from the chimney ignited a fire that destroyed the dwelling. A replica plantation house was constructed on the plantation land in Westmoreland County to approximate the original birth house in 1932 and is today known as the "Memorial House." The historical area today consists of 538 acres with the house, the Washington family burial ground, a working demonstration farm and 18th century period garden. Also interred in the burial ground are 28 other early members of the Washington family. President George Washington was buried at Mt. Vernon in 1799 and his mother Mary Ball Washington in Frederiksburg. The original foundations of what is believed to be the birth house were discovered by preservationist and is outlined. The site is now known as the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. An unmarked slave graveyard discovered at the Washington birthplace is an infamous legacy of Augustine Washington Sr. It contains 156 bodies of slaves owned by George Washington's father. Trivia note: Washington's birthplace eventually was sold and passed from the holdings of the Washington family. It was allow to disintegrate until preservationists realized the historical significance of the site. However, it was too late, nothing remained. But finally a concerted effort with private and government assistance began to restore the plantation in the early 30's in a style of how it may have looked. Even the burial grounds was a vain attempt at restoration and creation. The finished project today resulted after disinterring of family parts, and a few vandalized markers from around the plantation and area with reinterring on the site. Parents: Lawrence Washington 1659-1697 Mildred Warner Washington 1671-1701 Spouses: Jane Butler Washington 1699-1729 Mary Ball Washington 1708-1789 Siblings: John Washington 1692-1746 Mildred Warner Washington Willis 1696-1747 Mildred Washington 1696-1696 Half Siblings: Lewis Willis 1734-1813 Children: Butler Washington 1716-1716 Lawrence Washington 1718-1752 Augustine Washington 1720-1762 George Washington 1732-1799 Elizabeth Washington Lewis 1733-1797 Samuel Washington 1734-1781 John Augustine Washington 1736-1787 Charles Washington 1738-1799 Maintained by Find A Grave, added 17 Apr 2001 -- Find A Grave Memorial 21506, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21506/augustine-washington ------------------
------------------------ Augustine, second son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married for his second wife, Mary Ball; their oldest son was George Washington (President of the United States); their only daughter, Betty Washington, was the second wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, by whom she had a numerous progeny, notable in themselves and their descendants. Mildred, the only daughter of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married, first, Roger Gregory, by whom she had three daughters, Mildred, Frances, and Elizabeth, who married three brothers, Colonel John, Colonel Francis, and Reuben Thornton; she married, secondly, Colonel Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, by whom she had a son, Colonel Lewis Willis, and a daughter, Anne, who married Duff Greenv John Lewis, the son of Colonel Fielding and Catherine (Washington) Lewis, was married five times. First, to Lucy Thornton, youngest daughter of Colonel John Thornton and Mildred Gregory, by whom he had a daughter, Mildred (the sister of Lucy Thornton married Samuel Washington, brother of the President, General William Woodford of the Revolution, and John Taliaferro of Dissington). Secondly, John Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton, daughter of Colonel Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory, by whom he had no child. One of the brothers of his second wife was the gallant Colonel John Thornton of the Revolution, who married Jane, daughter of Augustine Washington, elder half-brother of the President, and was the ancestor of the wife of Senator James B. Beck, and Mildred, one of the sisters of his second wife was the wife of Charles Washington, younger full-brother of the President. John Lewis' third wife was a daughter of Gabriel Jones, widely known in Virginia during his own generation, and remembered for years after all who knew him had passed away as "The Valley Lawyer." The fourth wife of John Lewis was Mary Anne Fontaine, the widow Armistead, her father of that excellent Huguenot stock, her mother a Winston, of the same blood as Patrick Henry, the South Carolina Prestons, and Mrs. Madison. John Lewis' fifth wife was Mildred Carter, widow of Robert Mercer, a son of the Princeton hero. She was a daughter of Landon Carter, her mother being a daughter of Colonel Lewis Willis. It is a noteworthy circumstance that the two first wives of John Lewis were granddaughters of his great aunt, Mildred Washington, by her first husband, Roger Gregory, and his fifth and last wife, her great-granddaughter by her second husband, Colonel Henry Willis." - From Courier-Journal Genealogies The italics are corrections by Mr. Thomas Waring Lewis ... -- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 75, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c -------------------------------- George Washington BIRTH 22 Feb 1732 Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA DEATH 14 Dec 1799 (aged 67) Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA BURIAL Mount Vernon Estate, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia 1st United States President, Revolutionary War Continental General. George Washington earned the title, 'Father of His Country.' Before the Revolutionary War, there had been thirteen separate colonies, each with its own government. A war had forced them to fight as a single nation. A convention in Philadelphia with representatives from each formed a new independent nation. To the man who stood by and led a ragtag army, helped write the Constitution, worked to have it accepted, was then elected to be its first President. George Washington was born at Wakefield, the family plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. His father was a tobacco farmer and died when George was eleven. He then lived with his half brother who owned Mt. Vernon inheriting the property upon his death. He had no formal education but became a self learned surveyor at an early age. The French began to encroach on Virginia land and he was appointed a major in the militia and defended against the French at Fort Necessity. Although defeated, he gained valuable lessons in warfare. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses and the issue of the time was growing resentment to unfair taxation and economic policies from England. Elected as a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses and with sympathy toward severing ties with Great Britain, was given command of a new but ill equipped army. He accepted his new duties at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years with a strategy of hit and run. Successful at driving the British from Boston, he was badly defeated in New York but led his army through New Jersey across the Delaware River to safety in Pennsylvania. His troops were discouraged and many deserted. He re crossed the Delaware River near Trenton capturing a thousand Hessian mercenaries serving in the British army. However, the British were victorious again driving the Americans from Philadelphia. A winter camp at Valley Forge was the defining period in the struggle for independence. The men suffered: food was in short supply, improper clothing led to frozen feet and death. Martha was there beside her husband giving them soup, medicine and clothes she obtained from personal relief efforts. The battle of Saratoga was the turning point. Washington's military tactics confounded the British. France decided to send ships, men and money which led to the victory at Yorktown, Virginia where British troops commanded by General Cornwallis were surrounded by the French and Americans and forced to surrender. The war was over, independence achieved, a peace treaty signed and Washington said farewell to his soldiers and returned to Mount Vernon. However, he was a delegate to the convention which formed the new nation and wrote the new constitution which rewarded him by election as the first President. He took the oath of office in New York City and the first order of business was to appoint the ablest men of his time to help him. The first cabinet was born: Alexander Hamilton-Secretary of the Treasury, Thomas Jefferson-Secretary of State, Henry Knox- Secretary of War and Samuel Osgood -Postmaster General. He appointed the first ten Justices to the Supreme Court. In 1791 a federal territory was established as the site of the new nation's permanent capital and Pierre Charles L'Enfant was named architect in charge of plans for the new federal city. President Washington laid the cornerstone in 1793 for the Capitol building. The site was named Washington in his honor when becoming the nations capitol in 1800. He served two terms, turning down a third, returning home to Mount Vernon. Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement. After spending a day riding on his farms in foul weather, his throat became inflamed developing into what today is called acute inflammatory edema. The first President was dead at age 67. His body was brought downstairs and kept for three days to be certain he was indeed dead. Washington was interred as he wished at Mt Vernon in a hastily constructed brick crypt. Prior to interment, an elaborate funeral service was conducted. Martha sat beside a second-floor window and watched the funeral on the lawn below. The service included cavalry, infantry, cannons, a riderless horse, solemn music and hundreds of mourners. Finally a last passage was read from the Episcopal prayer book and the body was placed in the crypt. In two years, Martha joined him upon her death. A new mausoleum was constructed some thirty years later and both bodies were moved and placed in an inter wall. A move again from the inter [sic] wall of the tomb to the present anteroom where a marble white coffin shaped sarcophagus was constructed to contain the Presidents coffin. On his left, is Martha in a more simple sarcophagus. Both are visible from behind the high iron gates. Postscript: After his death, legends, paintings and books elevated him into an unbelievable legend (example cherry tree fable). However, more meaningful monuments remain today. Towns, Cities, schools, and streets honor his name across America. The 550 foot tall marble obelisk which dominates the Washington skyline honors him. Construction of the Washington Monument began in 1848, stopped during the Civil War and was finished in 1884 George Washington was forgotten for a time and Mt Vernon fell into disrepair until the Mount Vernon Ladies Association was formed and instituted repair while taking on the task of its future care and preservation. The residence was constructed by Washington and it contains original furnishings and many artifacts owned by the famous couple. The President owned many slaves and it bothered him that as leader of the revolution that had yielded the country liberty, many Americans remained in bondage. More than 300 slaves lived and worked on the Mount Vernon farms. By the terms of his will, he set his slaves free, arranging for the older ones to receive pensions. In 1983, the Ladies Association began the task of refurbishing the large neglected slave cemetery at the rear of the estate. No markers were ever placed as the slaves died. They have erected a monument noting this disservice and were able to emblazon on its surface a few known names. Parents: Augustine Washington 1694-1743 Mary Ball Washington 1708-1789 Spouse Martha Dandridge Washington 1731-1802 (m. 1759) Siblings: George Washington 1732-1799 Elizabeth Washington Lewis 1733-1797 Samuel Washington 1734-1781 John Augustine Washington 1736-1787 Charles Washington 1738-1799 Half Siblings: Butler Washington 1716-1716 Lawrence Washington 1718-1752 Augustine Washington 1720-1762 Maintained by Find A Grave, Added 1 Jan 2001 -- Find A Grave Memorial 1075, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1075/george-washington ------------------------
------------------------- Lawrence Washington BIRTH Sep 1659 DEATH Mar 1697 (aged 37) Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA BURIAL George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Latanes, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Wakefield Plantation, Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia Lawrence Washington is the grandfather of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Lawrence married Mildred Warner. It was from this marriage in which Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, was born. Parents John Washington 1632-1677 Ann Pope Washington 1638-1668 Spouse (3 memorials): Mildred Warner Washington 1671-1701 (m. 1688) Siblings: Richard Washington 1660-1725 Anne Washington Wright 1660-1697 John Washington 1661-1698 Children: John Washington 1692-1746 Augustine Washington 1694-1743 Mildred Washington 1696-1696 Mildred Warner Washington Willis 1696-1747 Maintained by Find A Grave, Added 17 Apr 2001 -- Find A Grave Memorial 21512, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21512/lawrence-washington -------------------------
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (No First Name) Lewis Spouse Name Mildred Warner Washington, Born abt 1696 Family Data Collection - Individual Records Mildred Washington Birth Date 1696 Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia Parents Lawrence Washington, Mildred Warner Spouse Henry Willis Marriage Date 1716 At that time, Fredericksburg was a town in Spotsylvania County. It was not actually incorporated as a city until 1781. It was made an independent city in 1879. Several historical sources report that Mildred Washington was the aunt of General George Washington. There are instances in the Gregory lines of individuals named George Washington Gregory. One in our primary ancestral Gregory lineage is reported to have married Susannah Few. The Fews are associated in several generations with the Gregorys from northern Virginia who moved down the Shenandoah Valley into eastern Tennessee, and across the mountains to what became northern Kentucky. Fews also migrated along with the Gregorys into North Carolina, and some reconnected with the related Gregorys in Jefferson County, Tennessee and Bath County, Kentucky. This George Gregory, reported as George Washington Gregory, is reported to have married one Susannah Few. Documentation is lacking, but the reported names and other details fit the contours of this family in that generation. The reported daughter of George and Susannah, named Susannah Lucretia Gregory, is reported to have married Joseph McAndrew in Fauquier County, Virginia, matching other family information on Gregorys in Fauquier County. There is, however, a connection with President George Washington. George Washington, later Colonel and then General in the Revolutionary American forces, was a surveyor as a young man, and was engaged by Lord Fairfax to survey the Northern Neck lands, where the Gregorys were prominent early pioneers. He was appointed by William and Mary University as the official surveyor for Culpeper County, neighboring both Frederick and Fauquier County. No record has been found to document Susannah Few's life or marriage to George Washington Gregory. Various records for several individuals named George Washington Gregory, however, are found in various areas in later generations. One location is Berkeley County West Virgina, originally formed out of old Frederick County, Virginia, where early records show three sons of Richard Gregory as prominent in early development of the county. This is west of Culpeper County and Fauquier County, Virginia, where members of the same Gregory clan are found in the colonial and later periods. A marriage record is found for George Washington Gregory in 1847 in Berkeley County, Virginia, reporting marriage to a Susan Carper. The Gregorys in the Northern Neck and derived counties likely knew George Washington personally. They probably were aware that the Gregorys and Washingtons were kin (see below). The newborn Gregory son of Benjamin Gregory born in 1760 then may have very well been named George Washington Gregory, as proposed. It would be nice, however, to find some specific documentation of that. Additional circumstantial information is found in that this same Mildred Washington, reported to be George Washington's aunt, was also his godmother. Mildred married Roger Gregory, son of Richard Gregory, in King William County, in northeast Virgina. This county neighbors Prince William County, known to be the home of Benjamin Gregory in this Pennsylvania-Virginia lineage. The Mount Vernon Estate was in Prince William County, though later creation of Fairfax County in 1742 placed it in the new county. The Washington Family was very prominent in Virginia colonial affairs and intermarried with Gregorys and other notable colonial families in the 1600s. So there are good reasons why a Gregory might have Washington as a middle name aside from the later fame of General George Washington in the Revolutionary War. There is, additionally, an even stronger tie, which also explains the connection to the home estate of George Washington, general and then President of the United States. The plantation of Mount Vernon was originally a Gregory property. Mildred Washington and her husband Roger Gregory owned Mount Vernon plantation, which they deeded over to Mildred's brother Augustine Washington, George Washington's father. This estate is famous as the home of President George Washington, Augustine's oldest son. An old publication on the old families and homes of King William County, Virginia, provides important perspective on the relationship between all the old colonial aristocratic families there. "Mr. Lawrence Washington had a silver waiter with the Butler-Beckwith arms engraved thereon. Beckwith Butler was guardian of the children of Margaret, the widow of William Robinson. Lawrence Butler, William Aylett, and John Washington were witnesses to the deed from Roger Gregory conveying the Mount Vernon estate to Augustine Washington in 1726. Lawrence Washington left his Godson, Lawrence Butler, a tract of land adjoining Meredith Edwards in 1697." -- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 32, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00clar_djvu.txt Mildred Warner Washington was not only the aunt, but also the godmother of George Washington who later became President. ------------------ "Roger Gregory. Son of Richard Gregory (i). Born about 1690; died prior to 1732. Married Mildred, daughter of Lawrence Washington. On the 17th of May, 1736, Roger Gregory and Mildred, his wife, deeded the Mt. Vernon estate to Augustine Washington. They were then residents of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County. The witnesses were William Aylett, John Washington, and Lawrence Butler. Issue: Frances, who married, September 3, 1736, Francis Thornton (see Thornton Excursus); Mildred, who married, October 28, 1740, John Thornton, and Elizabeth, who married four times: first, April 29, 1743, Henry Willis, son of Colonel Henry Willis (who had married her mother); second, Reuben Thornton; third, Doctor Thomas Walker, the Explorer, and fourth, Colonel Alcock, of the British Army. Mildred Gregory, the elder, was the godmother of General George Washington." -- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 58, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c ------------------ We find that George W Gregory is a recurring name in this Gregory line. In most cases, no indication has been found on what the W stood for. Two actual cases of later George Washington Gregorys have been documented. Another George Washington Gregory was born 1851, the documented son of Few Hall Gregory, in our primary ancestral line of Gregorys here, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1781. Thus we have circumstantial evidence and historical context for the occurrence of Washington as a name among this Gregory lineage. ------------------ Augustine, second son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner; married for his second wife, Mary Ball; their oldest son was George Washington (President of the United States); their only daughter, Betty Washington, was the second wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, by whom she had a numerous progeny, notable in themselves and their descendants. Mildred, the only daughter of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married, first, Roger Gregory, by whom she had three daughters, Mildred, Frances, and Elizabeth, who married three brothers, Colonel John, Colonel Francis, and Reuben Thornton; she married, secondly, Colonel Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, by whom she had a son, Colonel Lewis Willis, and a daughter, Anne, who married Duff Green. John Lewis, the son of Colonel Fielding and Catherine (Washington) Lewis, was married five times. First, to Lucy Thornton, youngest daughter of Colonel John Thornton and Mildred Gregory, by whom he had a daughter, Mildred (the sister of Lucy Thornton married Samuel Washington, brother of the President, General William Woodford of the Revolution, and John Taliaferro of Dissington). Secondly, John Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton, daughter of Colonel Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory, by whom he had no child. One of the brothers of his second wife was the gallant Colonel John Thornton of the Revolution, who married Jane, daughter of Augustine Washington, elder half-brother of the President, and was the ancestor of the wife of Senator James B. Beck, and Mildred, one of the sisters of his second wife was the wife of Charles Washington, younger full-brother of the President. John Lewis' third wife was a daughter of Gabriel Jones, widely known in Virginia during his own generation, and remembered for years after all who knew him had passed away as "The Valley Lawyer." The fourth wife of John Lewis was Mary Anne Fontaine, the widow Armistead, her father of that excellent Huguenot stock, her mother a Winston, of the same blood as Patrick Henry, the South Carolina Prestons, and Mrs. Madison. John Lewis' fifth wife was Mildred Carter, widow of Robert Mercer, a son of the Princeton hero. She was a daughter of Landon Carter, her mother being a daughter of Colonel Lewis Willis. It is a noteworthy circumstance that the two first wives of John Lewis were granddaughters of his great aunt, Mildred Washington, by her first husband, Roger Gregory, and his fifth and last wife, her great-granddaughter by her second husband, Colonel Henry Willis." - From [Louisville, Kentucky] Courier-Journal Genealogies -- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 75, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c ------------------ ------------------------- Mildred Warner Washington Willis Birth 1696 Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA Death Sep 5, 1747 Virginia, USA Her Husbands (There were three) 1) John Lewis of Gloucester County - married 1716. he died on April 7, 1718, leaving Mildred a childless widow of twenty. Mildred's husband, John Lewis, was the son of Edward Lewis and his wife Susannah. 2) Roger Gregory only a few months after John Lewis' death she remarried. Her second husband was of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County. His death was in 1730 or 1731, 3) Henry Willis In November, 1733, her thrice-married cousin, Mildred Lewis Brown Howell Willis died, and the widower, Henry Willis, immediately asked our Mildred Gregory to become his third wife. Henry Willis died in 1740, and Mildred did not marry again, but survived until 1747, when she died at the age of 50. Children: (There were 4) Roger Gregory - father of Frances, Mildred, Elizabeth Lewis Willis -- at the end of 1734 Mildred had her fourth and last child, who some think was named in memory of her first childless, husband. Parents: Lawrence Washington (1659 - 1697) Mildred Warner Washington (1671 - 1701) Spouses: Henry Willis (1696 - 1740) Roger Gregory (1690 - 1731) Children: Frances Gregory Thornton (1718 - 1790) Sarah Anne Willis Green (1734 - 1820) Lewis Willis (1734 - 1812) Siblings: John Washington (1692 - 1746) Augustine Washington (1694 - 1743) Mildred Washington (1696 - 1696) Half-sibling Lewis Willis (1734 - 1813) Half-sibling Burial Wllis Cemetery, Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg City, Virginia (possibly Buried here) Maintained by Find A Grave, Originally Created by P Fazzini Feb 04, 2011 -- Find A Grave Memorial #65169251, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65169251/mildred-warner-willis -------------------------
Ancestry.com transcription of Jane's marriage record record has the wrong date. The transcription reports the date of the certificate and ceremony as 19 August 1840, but on the certificate record it is 13 August 1840. The date is written out in longhand so cnanot be mistaken. Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978 Jane Waters License and Marriage "This thirteenth day of August, 1840" [13 Aug 1840] Hall County, Georgia, USA Spouse Rice R Bates Ceremony performed by Robert Lawrence, Justice of the Peace 1850 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 12 November, page 228, House/Family #1558 Rice R Bates 29 M Farmer born GA Jane Bates 25 F GA John S Bates 7 M GA Napolion B Bates 5 M GA Martha O Bates 13 F GA Owen K Bates 1 M GA 1860 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 28 July, Militia District 1013, PO Hopler's Mills page 100, House #706, Family #671 R R Bates 39 M Farmer $10,000 Real Estate $6500 Personal born GA Jane Bates 37 F GA John S Bates 17 M Farm Laborer GA Napolion B Bates 15 M Farm Laborer GA Martha Bates 13 F GA Owen K Bates 11 M GA Emaly J Bates 9 F GA Ross Bates 6 M GA George H Bates 3 M GA Franklin S Bates 3 days M GA [born July 1860] 1870 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 26 July, Militia District 1013, PO Spring Place, page 12, House/Family #85 Rice R Bates 49 M W Farmer $5000 Real Estate $700 Personal born GA Jane Bates 45 F W Keeping House GA Owen K Bates 20 M W Farm Laborer GA Ross Bates 15 M W At School GA George H Bates 12 M W At School GA Franklin S Bates 10 M W At School GA Margaret Bates 7 F W At Home GA Napolion B Bates 4 M W At Home GA Martha Bates 17 F B Domestic Servant GA 1880 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 17 June, 1015th District, Enumeration District 155, page 17, Hse/Fam #184 Bates, Rice R W M 59 Head Farmer Carpenter GA SC SC [b abt 1821] Bates, Jane W F 54 Wife Keeping House GA SC SC [abt 1826] Bates, George H W M 23 Son Works on Farm GA GA GA [b abt 1857] Bates, Franklin W F 20 Son Works on Farm GA GA GA [abt 1870] Bates, Robert L W F 14 Son Works on Farm GA GA GA [abt 1866] Bates, Margret W M 17 Dau Keeping House GA GA GA [b abt 1863] Bates, Ross W F 25 Son Farming GA GA GA [abt 1855] Bates, Aurelia W M 22 Dau-in-law Keeping House GA GA GA [b abt 1858] Frances Jane Waters Bates Birth Jan. 2, 1823 [Grave and family sources say Jan 12, 1823] Death Feb. 14, 1909 daughter Martha Oneida Bates Terry (1847 - 1932) Burial Grove Level Community Cemetery, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia Created by Leon Foster Mar 16, 2010 -- Find A Grave Memorial #49826529, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49826529
New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Arrival Manifest, Ship: Brig Elizabeth Clark Departure: Swansea, Wales Arrival 5 Nov 1831 New York, New York Thomas Watkin 28 Farmer From Great Britain Moving to United States [b abt 1803] Hannah Watkin 30 His Wife From Great Britain Moving to United States [b abt 1801] Athiren Watkin [Catherine Watkin] 1 His Daughter From Great Britain Moving to United States (abt 1830) Family sources generally report the birth date of 7 July 1829 for Catherine. If this ship docked in November 1831, she was already over 2 years old, not 1 as the manifest reports. This birth date appears to be the date on her gravestone. See the memorial from Find a Grave below. No photo accompanied the memorial. 1850 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 6 November, Clifford Township, page 709 (scan 358), Hse #224, Fam #239 Thomas Watkins 47 M Farmer No Real Estate value rptd b Wales [b abt 1803] Hannah Watkins 50 F b Wales Watkin Watkins 13 M b Penn Mary Watkin 12 F b Penn Evan Watkin 12 M b Penn John Watkins 8 M b Penn Thomas Eynon 30 M Farmer b Wales Catherine Eynon 21 F b Wales Jane Eynon 6mos F b Pennsylvania Some genealogies have birth and death information of Catherine's parents, but provide no documentation. I have not seen the official records. Several genealogies report Catherine's birth place as Gladestry, Radnorshire, Wales. I have seen none that cite a source. The following genealogy is typical. Catherine Watkins Birth 7 Jul 1829 in Gladestry, Radnorshire, Wales Death 1 May 1901 in Bangor, LaCrosse, Wisconsin Parents: Thomas Watkins b 1803 in Wales Hannah Finch b 1800 in Wales -- Mistretta, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16919/person/464416984?ssrc=&ftm=1 This Mistretta genealogy and some others attach a UK census record from 1851, which reports this birth place for a 22-year-old Catherine Watkins. This census record in Herefordshire, England, reports Gladestry as the birthplace for that Catherine Watkins. But this cannot be our Catherine Watkins Eynon, because in 1850 she and her whole family are in Pennsylvania, and she is already married to Thomas Eynon. Ironically, the Mistretta genealogy also attaches the correct Pennsylvania census for 1850! Catherine and her husband were enumerated with her parents as one household in the 1850 census for Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Our Catherine Watkins was taken to the USA in 1831 by her parent when she was 2 years old. (See arrival record below.) Here is the census record for the family the Mistretta genealogy references for a different Catherine Watkins. Ironically, they also cite the correct Pennsylvania census of 1850! See below. 1851 England Census, Herefordshire County, [no date], District 1b, Kington, page 39, Bridge Terrace, Arrow Lodge, Hse #143 Thomas Turner Head M 50 Miller, Maltster b Aymestrey, Herefordshire, England Maria Turner Wife F 38 b Llanbister, Radnorshire, Wales John Turner Son 13 M Scholar b Kington, Herefordshire, England Philip Turner Son 7 M Scholar b Kington, Herefordshire, England Henrietta Turner Dau 3 F At Home b Kington, Herefordshire, England William Turner Son 2 M At Home b Kington, Herefordshire, England ** Catherine Watkins Servt 22 F Cook b Gladestry, Radnorshire, Wales ** Susanna Dunn Servt 24 F Nurse Maid b Presteigne, Radnorshire, Wales James Russ Servt 23 M Journeyman Miller b Painswick, Gloucestershire, England William Jones Servt 23 M Groom b Kington, Herefordshire, England Edward Higginson Servt Married 65 M Maltster b Churchstoke, Shropshire, England John Dale Servt Married 14 M Errand Boy b Lyonshall, Herefordshire, England 1900 Federal Census, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 23 June, Bangor, District 59, page 11B, Hse/Fam #218 Eynon, Catherine Head W F Jul 1829 70 Widow Married 39 yrs 10 children/4 living Wales Wales Wales Entered US 1832 In US 68 yrs Income Owns Catherine Watkins Eynon Birth Jul. 7, 1829, Wales Death May 1, 1901 Bangor, La Crosse County, Wisconsin Spouse Thomas H. Eynon (1818 - 1888) Children: Harriet Eynon Williams (1864 - 1929) Burial Fairview Cemetery, Bangor, a Crosse County, Wisconsin Created by Steve Curry Jan 13, 2013 -- Find A Grave Memorial #103531834, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103531705
"William Chandler "Mink" Smith b-14 Oct 1883 GA d-16 Jul 1973 Denton, Denton, TX and married to Ella May Walkins b-19 Aug 1889 Talking Rock, Pickens, GA d-07 Nov 1983 Aubrey, Denton, TX. Mink and Ella are buried in Belew Historic Cemetery in Aubry, Denton, TX. Kizzie Olivia Mosier b-05 Feb 1887 Berryville, Carroll, AK d- 27 Feb 1972 Pauls Valley, Garvin OK was married to Mink's brother James William "Raspberry" (Berry) Smith b-13 Jul 1884 Tyler, TX d-08 Feb 1970 Pauls Valley, Garvin, OK" -- Terri Reneé Smith Escamillo, Comments on a Smith Family Photo, Ancestry 2016, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/80054212/person/34409984806/media/089fa55d-4c41-4855-a379-5efa38681866?_phsrc=DzJ746&usePUBJs=true
"Edmondâs wife, Emmeline, died on 1 April 1866 and was buried at Mt. Zion near their home. Uncle Frank Kendall [Alexander F. Kendall] persuaded father to bring his four children to his home instead of taking us to North Carolina to one of his sisters to raise. Then in August, Uncle Frank was returning home from Pine Bluff and was waylaid and shot to death by a man whom he had put in jail, leaving a wife and six children. Father then sold his farm and bought half interest in his brotherâs farm, agreeing with his brotherâs wife to look after the farm if she would take care of the ten children-her six and his four. So the two families remained together until all were grown just like one big family. Edmond was elected sheriff and served from 1874 to 1876. He died on 1 April 1866 [1 April 1891 ?] at 4 p.m.-the same day and the same time as his wife died twenty-five years before." -- Lea Harville Morgan, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 17 April 2016 Emmeline O Watkins Kendall Birth Oct 7, 1830, USA Death Apr. 1, 1866 Arkansas, USA Spouse Edmond Kendall (____ - 1891) Children: Charles Edgar Kendall (1858 - 1915) Benjamin Franklin Kendall (1862 - 1945) Rosa Lee Kendall Lockhart (1864 - 1923) Burial Mount Zion Cemetery, Rison, Cleveland County, Arkansas Created by mac Dec 22, 2010 -- Find A Grave Memorial #63233336, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63233336
1850 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 6 November, Clifford Township, page 709 (scan 358), Hse #224, Fam #239 Thomas Watkins 47 M Farmer No Real Estate value rptd b Wales [b abt 1803] Hannah Watkins 50 F b Wales Evan Watkin 12 M b Penn 1860 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 17 July, PO Dundaff, Clifford, page 131 (scan 468), Hse #1011, Fam #997 Wm Watkins 57 M Farmer $4200 Real Estate $1100 Personal born Wales [b abt 1803] Hannah Watkins 59 F born Wales [b abt 1801] Evan Watkins 21 M born Pennsylvania U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 Consolidated List 12th Congressional District Susquehanna and Luzerne Counties Evans Watkins Residence Pennsylvania Age on 1 July 1863: 23 Birth abt 1840 Pennsylvania Marital Status Single Occupation Laborer
John and Jane were Quakers. Jane was already a member of the Quaker meeting when she decided to marry John Watkins. "In May 16, 1754 according to the Black Water Monthly Meeting, Surry Co [actually was already Sussex County by this date], VA, USA. it stated that Jane was liberated to marry John Watkins." -- http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v108t1087&id=I0241 Blackwater Depot was named for the Blackwater River. This river was the northern demarcation line for the new Sussex County, created from Surry on 1 February 1754. -- Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries, http://www.nathanielturner.com/sussexcountyataleofthreecenturies.htm
1850 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 6 November, Clifford Township, page 709 (scan 358), Hse #224, Fam #239 Thomas Watkins 47 M Farmer No Real Estate value rptd b Wales [b abt 1803] Hannah Watkins 50 F b Wales John Watkins 8 M b Penn 1860 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 17 July, PO Dundaff, Clifford, page 131 (scan 468), Hse #1011, Fam #997 Wm Watkins 57 M Farmer $4200 Real Estate $1100 Personal born Wales [b abt 1803] Hannah Watkins 59 F born Wales [b abt 1801] John Watkins 18 F born Pennsylvania U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 Consolidated List 12th congressional District Susquehanna and Luzerne Counties John Watkins Residence Pennsylvania Age on 1 July 1863: 21 Birth abt 1842 Pennsylvania Marital Status Single Occupation Farmer 1870 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 6 July, Clifford, PO Uniondale, page 16, Hse #131, Fam 119 Watkins, John 28 M W Farmer $5200 Real Estate $1000 Personal b Penn Watkins, Mary 25 F W Keeping House born Penn Watkins, Amaretta 5mos F W b Feb 1870 Penn Maxon, Mary J 7 F W At School b Penn 1880 Federal Census, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 1 June, Clifford, District 120, page 6, Hse #60, Fam #61 Watkins, John W M 38 Farmer PA Wales Wales Watkins, Mary E W F 36 Wife Keeping House PA Wales Wales Watkins, Amaretta W F 10 Dau PA PA PA Watkins, Wallie W M 6 Son PA PA PA Watkins, May W F 3 Dau PA PA PA Watkins, Willie W M 1 Son PA PA PA Maxen, Mary J W F 18 Adopted Dau PA PA PA Potter, Eater (?) A W M 72 Laborer PA PA PA John's widowed mother and his single brother Walter Watkins are living three doors away. --------------------- John Watkins Birth May, 1842 Pennsylvania Death 1921 Gibson, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Husband of Mary E Bell Parents: Thomas W Watkins & Hannah Spouse Mary E Bell Watkins (1844 - 1920) Children: Amaretta R Watkins Snyder (1870 - 1932) May Watkins (1877 - 1919) William Howell Watkins (1878 - 1943) Thomas Richard Watkins (1880 - 1937) Burial Welsh Hill Cemetery, Clifford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Created by snyder_nepa Apr 12, 2009 -- Find A Grave Memorial #35804194, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35804194 ---------------------