{"id":85155,"date":"2022-06-14T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=85155"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:12:35","slug":"jamestown-descendants-whos-who-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/jamestown-descendants-whos-who-part-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on descendants of the Jamestown settlers, writing about the familial ties between George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, AnceStory Archives<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I continue with my \u201cJamestown Descendants: Who\u2019s Who\u201d series, focusing on General George Washington, whose ancestors were part of the English noblemen who came to Jamestown, Virginia. Washington shares familial lines to Queen Elizabeth II (see: Jamestown Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 3<\/a>) and the Spencers.<\/p>\n

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Illustration: portrait of General George Washington, Commander of the Continental Army, by Charles Willson Peale (1776). Credit: Brooklyn Museum; Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cNo nobler figure than George Washington ever stood in the forefront of a national life.\u201d<\/p>\n

— John Richard Green, \u201cHistory of the English People\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1953, a month before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, the press was buzzing about the future monarch\u2019s blood lines that she shared with America\u2019s first president, George Washington.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Union<\/em> picked up the story. The genealogical research was furnished by the highly regarded Debrett\u2019s Peerage<\/em>, a guide to the British peerage (titled aristocracy).<\/p>\n

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San Diego Union (San Diego, California), 3 May 1953, page 115<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington, who led the American Revolution against King George III, had the noble blood lines of the Plantagenets, Sir Henry \u201cHotspur\u201d Percy, and the famed beauty Bessie Blount, King Henry VIII\u2019s notorious mistress who bore him a son: Henry Fitzroy.<\/p>\n

George Washington\u2019s Lineage<\/strong><\/p>\n