General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> President
Date of Birth was February 11 (February 22nd on today's calendar). Great Britain and the American Colonies changed from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. The calendars differed by 10 days. [Sources regarding the change in the calendar: "The Ligon Family and Connections;" and the entry's on "George Washington" and "Calendar" in "The World Book Encyclopedia.]"

George and Martha had no children together, but they raised Jackie and Patsy Custis, (Martha's children from her marriage with Daniel Parke Custis), at Mount Vernon. Much of this info on George and his ancestors, etc is taken from "The Ligon Family and Connections", and also from the site "Genealogy of the Presidents," which is from Funk and Wagnells "The Presidents." The site is: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/presidents

He was elected without opponent by 69 electoral votes. Was in office from 1789 to 1797 (two terms). His vice-president was his successor John Adams. Refused to run for a third term and - thereby - inofficially instituted the 2-term rule for american presidents, the only exception being Franklin Delano Roosevelt (from:
http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/presidents).

(the Father of the United States) US general and politician; led Virginia militia in French and Indian War 1754, 1755-1758; member of House of Burgesses 1759-1774; Virginia delegate to Continental Congress 1774-1775; commander-in-chief of Continental army during American Revolution 1775-1783; forced British troops to evacuate Boston 1776; after crossing Delaware River 1776, defeated Hessians under Johann Rall at battle of Trenton 1776; defeated British troops of Charles Cornwallis at battle of Princeton 1777, solidifying American control over New Jersey; defeated by British troops under William Howe at battle of Brandywine 1777 and battle of Germantown 1777, losing American control over Pennsylvania; settled troops for winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 1777-1778; defeated British troops of Charles Cornwallis at battle of Yorktown 1781, causing Cornwallis' surrender, British capitulation, and end of American Revolution; president of Constitutional Convention 1787; 1st president of US 1789-1797 (only unanimously elected US president); established 1st presidential cabinet 1789; moved US capital from New York City to Philadelphia 1790; oversaw establishment of Bank of US 1791 and US Mint at Philadelphia 1792; declared US impartiality in European War of the First Coalition 1793; ordered suppression of Whiskey Rebellion 1794; issued Farewell Address 1796, warning against partisanship and entangling foreign alliances _1732-1799

The following ancestry back to King Edward I and Margaret of France is shown in The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts:

George Washington, husband of Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis;
Augustine Washington and Mary Ball;
Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner;
John Washington and Anne Pope;
Lawrence Washington and Amphyllis Twigden;
Margaret Butler and Lawrence Washington;
William Butler and Margaret Greeke;
Margaret Sutton and John Butler;
John Sutton and (_) Charroll;
Joyce Tiptoft and Edmund Sutton;
Joyce Cherleton and John Tiptoft;
Eleanor Holand and Edward Cherleton;
Thomas Holand and Alice FitsAlan;
Joan Plantagenet and Thomas Holand;
Edmund of Woodstock and Margaret Wake;
Edward I King of England and 2nd wife Margaret of France.

One of several cousin lines with JRH (4C7R): This possible connection with ancestry is okay from Gen. George Washington back; his father Augustine; Augustine's mother Mildred Warner; Mildred's father Augustine, III; Augustine, III's mother Mary Towneley; Common connection with Mary's parents, Lawrence and Jennet (Halstead) Towneley. From Lawrence and Jennet down...their daughter, Elizabeth m. Christopher Smith; son Lawrence m. Mary Debnam; daughter Sarah m. Col. John Taliaferro; son Robert m. (?); not confirmed that daughte