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The Washington family arrived in the Colony of Virginia in 1657, [15] when John Washington was shipwrecked. John sailed on the ship the Seahorse. [16] [17] He was a planter, soldier, and politician in colonial Virginia in North America and a lieutenant colonel in the local militia. He settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Unsoeld was born Jolene Bishoprick in Corvallis, Oregon, on December 3, 1931, the daughter of Cora (Trapman) and Stanley Bishoprick, who was in the timber business. [2] [3] She attended Oregon State University from 1949 to 1951. In 1951, she married Willi Unsoeld, a mountaineer and later college professor; they had four children. [4]
Frances Jones, nicknamed Fanny, was born in 1710 on a plantation near Williamsburg near the capital on Queen's Creek.Fanny had an older brother, Lane Jones, born in 1707. Fanny's father, Orlando Jones, was a Burgess for New Kent County in 1718 in the House of Burgesses, the leading legislative body in Colonial Virgini
Biuku Gasa (27 July 1923 – 23 November 2005) and Eroni Kumana (c. 1918 [1] – 2 August 2014 [2]) were Solomon Islanders of Melanesian descent who found John F. Kennedy and his surviving PT-109 crew following the boat's collision with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri near Plum Pudding Island on 1 August 1943.
Eugenia Scholay Washington (June 27, 1838 – November 30, 1900) was an American historian, civil servant, and a founder of the lineage societies, Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America. Washington was born in 1838 near Charles Town, Virginia, in present-day West Virginia
They married on January 6, 1759, [9] making Patsy, age two, and her brother John "Jacky" Parke Custis, age four, stepchildren of George Washington. [2] As the Washingtons entered into public life together, Martha Washington came to be known by her formal name, while her daughter and namesake was known as "Patsy". [7]
John David Washington was bit by the acting bug at a young age. He briefly appeared in his father’s movies “Malcolm X” and “Devil in a Blue Dress,” but focused on football as a young man ...
Nelly was born on March 31, 1779, at Mount Airy, her maternal grandfather's estate in Prince George's County, Maryland, the daughter of John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis , who married George Washington in 1759.