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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.
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
John Washington (1633 – 1677) ... He was the first member of the Washington family to live in North America and was a paternal great-grandfather of George ...
This is a list of ancestral origins of the people who have served as Vice President of the United States.Similarly to the Presidency of the United States, most holders of the office of the Vice Presidency have come from prominent or wealthy families of predominantly Northern European and Protestant backgrounds. [1]
For instance, there were ancestral ties between the Spencer family of Bedfordshire and the Washington family; a Spencer secured the land grant later purchased by the Washingtons, where they built their Mount Vernon home. These sorts of ties were common in the early colony, as families shuttled back and forth between England and Virginia ...
According to accounts that historian Benson J. Lossing and others wrote in the mid- to late 1800s and early 1900s that were based on a story that G.W.P. Custis had told to Lossing, John Parke Custis served on George Washington's staff during the Siege of Boston in 1775-1776 and became an emissary to the British forces there.
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
The Washington Family by Edward Savage is a life-sized group portrait of the Washington family, including U.S. President George Washington, First Lady Martha Washington, two of her grandchildren and a black servant, most likely an enslaved man whose identity was not recorded. [1] [2] The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., presently ...