John Washington 
John was born in 1632 in Purleigh, Essex, England.1 John's father was Lawrence Washington and his mother was Amphyllis Twigden. His paternal grandparents were Lawrence WASHINGTON and Margaret Butler; his maternal grandparents were John Twigden and Anne Dickens. He had two brothers and three sisters, named Laurence IV, William, Elizabeth, Margaret and Martha. He was the oldest of the six children. He died about 1676 in Washington Paris, Westmoreland County, Virginia.1 General Notes
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John Washington
George Washington's Great Grandfather
Born around 1631 in England, John emigrated to the Virginia colonies in 1656. Tradition has it that John traveled to the colonies on a trading venture aboard the Seahorse of London. The idea was to trade European goods for tobacco. The ship, laden with tobacco, was sailing down the Potomac river when it struck an uncharted shoal. About that time, a storm came up and the ship was sunk, ruining the valuable cargo of tobacco.
The ship sank near The Cliffs, a plantation owned by Nathaniel Pope. Pope befriended the young Washington and, fortunately for John, had a marriagable daughter named Anne. John and Anne were married in 1658 and received a wedding gift of 700 acres on Mattox Creek from her father. John and Anne had four children together, two of whom died in childhood. After Anne's death, John married twice more before his death in 1677. According to some sources, John may have been married before he emigrated to Virginia (before he married Anne) and may have had two children by her, both of which died in infancy and before his marriage to Anne. No record is known to exist of this first marriage or when his first wife (if it was not Anne) died.
During his lifetime, he was active in local politics and served for a time in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He actively acquired land and, by the time of his death, owned more than 8,500 acres. Obtained from www.kenmore.org
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1465 in Tewhitefield, Lancashire, England d.> 1528
- b.1500 in Tewhitefield, Lancashire, England d.19 Feb 1583 in Sulgrave Manor, Sulgrave, Northampton, England
- b.~ 1482 in , Wharton, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1544 in Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, England d.10 Mar 1623 in Southisle Church, Sulgrave, Warws., England
- b.1490 in Greatworth, Northamps, Eng d.04 Feb 1557 in St. Katherine's, Aisle, Greatworth, Church
- b.1504 in Of, Glentworth, Lincs, Eng d.07 Oct 1564 in Of, Sulgrave, Northampton, England
- b.~ 1482 in Charwelton, Northamps, Eng
- b.1566 in , Sulgrave, Norfolk, England d.15 Dec 1616 in Brington, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1547 in Of, Radway, Warwickshire, England d.25 Mar 1599 in Radway, Warwick, Eng
- b.1602 in Sulgrave, Northhamptonshire, England d.Jan 1653
- b.~ 1483 d.14 Nov 1558 in Aston- le-Walls, Northamtonshire, England
- b.1538 in Tyler, England d.1609
- b.1461 in of Aston-le-Wall d.> 1541
- b.~ 1497 d.17 Apr 1563
- b.Bet. 1456 - 1477
- b.> 1568 in Tyes Hall, Cuckfields, Sussex, England d.16 Mar 1651
- b.1544 d.~ 1581
- b.1632 in Purleigh, Essex, England d.~ 1676 in Washington Paris, Westmoreland County, Virginia
- d.~ 1611 in Little Creation, Northampton, England
- b.~02 Feb 1601 in Spratton, Northamptonshire, England d.~19 Jan 1654 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England
- d.Apr 1637 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England
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John and Anne were married in a religious ceremony on December 1st, 1658 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.1 They had a son named Lawrence.
Family Notes
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Children
Lawrence Washington
Lawrence was born in September 1659 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.1 He died at the age of 38 in February 1698 in Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia.1
1 merge.jul.8.2002.FTW
Further sources/citations:
washington.george.1731.ancestors.1502756.ged, Bush-Spencer2.from.john.spencer.GED, spenser-churchill line.FTW
Further sources/citations:
washington.george.1731.ancestors.1502756.ged, Bush-Spencer2.from.john.spencer.GED, spenser-churchill line.FTW