Col. John Washington^[1]

1633 - 1677  (44 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Washington  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Prefix	Col.
  Birth	Feb 1633	Sulgrave, Purleigh Co, Essex, England   [2, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Sep 1677	Bridge's Creek, Virginia, USA   [2, 3, 6, 10]
  Siblings	5 Siblings
  + 1. Col. John Washington,   b. Feb 1633, Sulgrave, Purleigh Co, Essex, England d. Sep 1677, Bridge's Creek, Virginia, USA  (Age 44 years) ▻ Margret Hayward,  m. Bef 1658 ;   Anne Pope,  m. 1 Dec 1658 ;   Anne Gerrard,  m. Aft 1669 ;   Anne Broadhurst,  m. Aft Sep 1669 ;   Frances Gerard,  m. Bef 1677 + 2. Lawrence Washington,   b. Bef 18 Jun 1635, Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, England d. 1677, Virginia, USA  (Age 41 years) ▻ Mary Jones,  m. 26 Jun 1660 ;   Jane Fleming,  m. Abt 1667   3. Elizabeth Washington,   b. Abt 17 Aug 1636   d. Aft May 1697  (Age 60 years) ▻ William Rumbold,  m. Aft Aug 1676   4. Margaret Washington,   b. Abt 1639   d. Aft May 1697  (Age 58 years) ▻ George Talbot,  m. 2 Mar 1663   5. William Washington,   b. Abt 14 Oct 1641, Tring, Hertfordhsire, England d. Yes, date unknown   6. Martha Washington,   b. 13 Jan 1650   d. Abt 8 Dec 1697  (Age 47 years) ▻ Samuel Hayward
  Person ID	I34063	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2000

  
  

  Father	Rev. Laurence Washington, III,   b. 2 Nov 1602, Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, England d. 21 Jan 1653, Tring, Hertfordhsire, England (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Amphyllis Twigden,   b. Abt 2 Feb 1602, Creation Parva Parish, Northamptonshire, England d. 10 Jan 1655, Tring, Hertfordhsire, England (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1632	Purleigh, Essex, England
  Family ID	F14448	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margret Hayward   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Bef 1658
  2 children who died
  Family ID	F14358	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 2	Anne Pope,   b. 1638, St. Mary's Parish, Maryland, USA d. 26 Sep 1669, Bridges Creek Plantation, Westmoreland Co, Virginia, USA (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	1 Dec 1658	Mattox, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, USA   [2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12]
  Anne brought to marriage with John Washington some 700 acres as dowry. This was a more than respectable property by English standards.
  Children	+ 1. Capt. Laurence Washington,   b. 1 Sep 1659, Pope's Creek, Wakefield, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, USA d. 1 Feb 1698, Warner Hall, Gloucester Co., Virginia, USA (Age 38 years) + 2. Capt. John Washington, Jr.,   b. Between 1661 and 1662, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA d. Bef 22 Feb 1697, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA (Age 36 years) + 3. Anne Pope Washington,   b. Abt 1663, Lower Machodc, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, USA d. Abt 11 Mar 1697, Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, USA (Age 34 years)
  Family ID	F14413	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2003

  
  

  Family 3	Anne Gerrard   d. Aft 1670
  Marriage	Aft 1669
  Family ID	F14344	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 4	Anne Broadhurst   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Aft Sep 1669  [10]
  Family ID	F39942	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 5	Frances Gerard,   b. Abt 1628, Newhall, Lancashire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Bef 1677  [2, 13]
  Family ID	F14345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

• Notes

  He sailed for Virginia in 1656 as mate and voyage partner of Edward Prescott, owner of the sea Horse of London, a ketch engaged in the tobacco trade. They arrived early in 1657. Having taken tobacco on board near Mattox Creek, they weighed anchor and set sail again, but the ketch sank. He was an Englishman of good family who Emigrated to Bridge Creek, Virginia in1656/7 form Northhamptonshire, England and founded the American branch of the family. He obtained a grant of 150 acres in Westmoreland County on the Potomac River. He soon saw a future in the wilderness upriver. In 1674 he and a partner secured a second grant of 5,000 acres about 18 miles below the modern city of Washington, D.C. This was the site of Mount Vernon (including the nucleus of the Wakefield and Mount Vernon estates). John Washington was well known as a planter, businessman, and military leader. As a Colonel he led Virginian forces in the Indian War of 1675. Among civil offices, he was a member of the Virginian House of Burgeses for Westmoreland County. The hostile Indians called him Conotocarius--"destroyer of villages." After 1670 When Col. John Washington, whose great-grandson, Francis Wright, married Capt. Robert Massey's granddaughter, Anne, and his brother, Lawrence Washington, whose grandson, John Washington, married Capt. Massey's granddaughter, Mary, were present, Sept. 26, 1675, with Virginia soldiers under the command of Col. Washington and Maryland soldiers under the command of Major Truman, at the fort of the Susquehanna Indians, near present Mt. Vernon, to decide peace or war. And when the Marylanders murdered the official Indian conferees and charged Col. Washington with the responsibility, it was Capt. Massey who, later, before a commission of inquier, cleared Col. Washington. Member Virginia House of Burgesses for Westmoreland County.

  
  

• Sources

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