P,P, and P, Button White

Pilgrims, Pioneers, and Patriots
“The Washington Connection”

and much more…

To see how you are related to George Washington!
And a whole bunch of other notable folks!

Ps 127:3 -5
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you,
that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that
the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 22:1
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better

than silver or gold.

Hebrews 12:15-17
See to it … that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his
own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he
desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for
repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

Thomas B. Macaulay:
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of
remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to
be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Winston Churchill:
…any people with contempt for their heritage
have lost faith in themselves and no nation can
long survive without pride in its traditions.

“Own two feet”

I have often been told in discussions with your Grandmother (Gran) Wadley, concerning my inquiries into the Braselton/Washington connection that this
“connection” doesn’t really matter, that “we stand on our own two feet”. I respect that, but while I agree that it is the responsibility of each person or
generation to find and stand on their own feet, isn’t it is equally true that neither arrives at their beginning station in life by their own doing? Those
parents, grandparents, and ancestors, who have gone before them, through their ideals, character, industry, and good providence or the lack of those
things, form the elevation upon which the next generations have the opportunity or disadvantage from which to build. They have either enabled the next
generation to begin at a higher level than they themselves started or hindered them. Life being what it is, often it is a little mix of both. No generation has
a claim on perfection. So it is true that each generation and individual person must self-consciously take stock of what means of inheritance that he or she
has received merely through their own birthright and decide if, what, and how they will use them in their own lives, and generations, for benefit, profit,
or squander. But, as John Donne once said,

“No man is an island; entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”.

And nowhere is that more true than in families where we are born and the entire lot of our lives are first cast. It is from families that we inherit almost all
else, that we are not individually gifted with by God. The knowledge of the Gospel comes to us through them, the churches we worship in have their roots
through them, the form of government, the civilization, the financial and social standing of our families, our own personal lives, and the lives of our
children have been made possible because of their faithfulness to pass the baton of faith, work, and sacrifice from their generations on to the next. So,
as with the servants in the “Parable of the Talents” in Matthew 25; our “talents” are first provided for us, not earned. “To one he gave five talents, to
another two, to another one, to each according to his ability.” We may lift ourselves up on our feet but our families form the ground or shoulders upon
which we stand.

The “profit” we earn, the good we do, the new talents we acquire, are the result of our using wisely that which we have first been given and a good family
heritage throughout recorded history has been considered one these birth gifts, a blessing to be received, and a talent to invest for the Lord. It is only in
the last hundred years that the assumed worth of this benefit has been culturally devalued. We have become near sighted in our understanding of our
place in God’s plan and generationally self absorbed. Abraham was gifted by God to be “the Father of many nations”, a gift which Abraham yearned for
and considered a unimaginable blessing. How many people today would even consider to treasure this, if it didn’t benefit themselves somehow during
their own life time? Esau’s failure to appreciate, value, and faithfully use his birthright was called immoral, and godless by God, and resulted in the tragic
loss of his future blessings, because God is a multi-generational God concerned with us now and with our place in the bigger picture. In Psalm 127 it is
explained that part of that “heritage”, that “gift” we receive, are our children, “arrows” that we prepare and propel into the future. So what we do now,
and how we use the heritage that we receive, effects that bigger picture and is important to God. According to this Psalm it is generations of people that
God builds with.

It is to the end that I have prepared this material, not to boast, or to imagine that somehow the relations that are shown in here somehow by osmosis
make its possessors inherently better than anyone else. Indeed these relations are all so distant as to be unremarkable. But, by way of encouragement
and inspiration in their stories. To remind and reveal to you, that you have received a remarkable heritage in your connections, though distant, to some
of the Pilgrims, Pioneers, and Patriots that God in His Providence has used to form this country for yourselves and everyone else. And that if those in
Heaven that have gone before us somehow can see and chart the progress of their posterity and are moved by our victories and trials, then you have a
“host of witnesses” surrounding you, cheering for you and knowing that you are not alone, on your “own two feet”, that is something worth knowing
about, honoring and valuing. Dad, Pops, Jonny 4/15/18

So how are we related to George Washington?

A hint:
It’s not just ‘cause some of you
have bad teeth and big noses.
your turn”

Augustine Warner II

Your 8 to 10th Great Grandfather

1. Stephen Heller, Carolina Bardaus, Samuel Heller, William Bardaus, Matthew Bentley

Anna Whisenant / Sorin Bardaus, Jessica Whisenant/ Todd Heller, “The Washington 2nd cousin 6-8 times removed
Sarah Whisenant / David Bentley, Jonathan Whisenant / Reagan Pifer Connection” Commander of the
...and much Lewis and Clarke Expedition
2. Ellen A. Wadley / Jonny L. Whisenant more… Cpt. Meriwether Lewis

3. Ann Camp Braselton / Theodore Carroll Wadley Lt William Lewis / Lucy Meriwether
Col. Robert Lewis / Jane Meriwether
4. Boyd Benjamin Braselton / Anna Dell Camp
3rd cousin 7 - 9 times removed
5. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Braselton / Ada Boyd “Father of our Country” Signer of the Declaration
6. John Amos Braselton / Sophia Matilda Howell of Independence
7. Ruben Braselton / Elizabeth "Betsie“ Stovall 1st cousin 9 – 11 times removed and Governor of Va.

8. Hanna Green / Jacob Braselton 6th Great Grandfather Gen. Thomas Nelson, Jr / Lucy Grymes
9. Anne Willis / Duff Green
Settler and Founder William Nelson, Sr. / Elizabeth Burwell
of Fredericksburg, Va.
Margaret Reade / Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson
10. (Mother) Mildred Lewis / Col. Henry Willis (1st cousins 1 removed ) George Washington / Martha Custis
5th cousin 5-7 times removed
( Stepmother) Commander of the Army of Northern Va.
Mildred Washington Lewis Gregory / Col. Henry Willis (siblings) Augustine Washington / Mary Ball President of Washington and Lee Collage
Gen. Robert E. Lee
11. Elizabeth Warner /John Lewis (sisters) Mildred Warner / Lawrence Washington (sister) Mary Warner Smith Gen. Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III
/Ann Hill Carter General, Governor, Congressman
12. Col. Augustine Warner II / Mildred Reade (siblings) Robert Reade / Mary Lilly 7th Great Lucy Ludwell Grymes / Henry Lee II
grandmother
Great-grandfather of Charles Grymes / Frances Jennings
of Queen
Pres George Washington Alice Towneley / John Grymes
Elizabeth II
8th to 10th and 8th Great Grandfather Susan Sarah Warner / Lawrence Towneley
14. Elizabeth Martiau / Col. George Reade
Great Of Queen Elizabeth II 9th to 11th

Grandfather G Grandfather

13. Col. Augustine Warner I / Mary Towneley

The 2nd Great Grandfather 15. Cpt. Nicolas Martiau / Elizabeth Jane Page
of George Washington,
The 4th great-grandfather “Father of Yorktown, Va. ”
of Gen Robert E Lee
10 -12th Great Grandfather
9th to 11th Great Grandfather

So, … a long time ago in a town not so far away……

Hey!
We’re right here!

Weatherford, Texas

Lived a Doctor named Dr. Benjamin Franklin Braselton

Who was named after Benjamin Franklin,
…..but that’s another story…..

He came from a big family of Braseltons who lived in Georgia

Me
again!

His family was big because His Great Grand Parents, Jacob Braselton and

Hannah Green, had moved to Georgia around 1790

….and had 14 children!

John B Braselton (1774 - 1850)*
Elizabeth Braselton Brown (1775 - 1805)*

Henry Braselton (1777 - 1851)*

William D Braselton (1779 - 1858)*

Hannah E Braselton Putman (1781 - 1833)*

Mary Braselton Wilson (1783 - ____)* Are we
Jacob Braselton (1785 - 1849)* there
Green Braselton (1786 - 1820)* yet?
Reuben J Braselton (1788 - 1844)*
Daniel David Braselton (1790 - ____)*

Job Green Braselton (1792 - 1848)*

Rebecca Braselton Brazeal (1795 - ____)*

Amos Braselton (1797 - 1875)*

Sarah Braselton Bell (1799 - 1832)

Then their children had children and so on…

Some of them even started a town where they lived and they called it

….....Braselton! ……..Of course!

Why do we use a “S”
instead of a “Z ”?

Dr. Braselton was born in Georgia too, but had moved to Weatherford, Texas,
(maybe he thought that there were too many Braseltons in Georgia). Then
one day in January 23rd, 1908 he got a message from the United States
government . It said:

.

When we said,

“We Deliver”

WeWmheeannt ,

“We Deliver!”

Maybe they found it a
little hard to believe…

….but it
was true
and it
was all
over the
papers…

And it was Robert E. Lee’s grandson,
who was administrating the award!

The story is :

The Federal Government sold land to the public along
the Ohio river that was originally deeded to George
Washington. He had willed it to his heirs but it was
not discovered for about 100 years so they had to pay

the heirs for it.

It sounded like a lot of money at first,
but in the end was only about
$305,000.00 of “un improved “

property. After expenses were taken out
and the rest divided amongst the many
relatives then living, it only gave each

one of them an estimated .09 to .99
cents.

For some reason though we have never heard how
Dr. Ben and the rest of the Braselton's spent their

“big windfall”. J

So, we don’t guess that they got much out of the land sale !

But ….
It did establish that the
Braselton's of Georgia
are related to George Washington
and Dr. Braselton is your child's

GGGGrandfather.

Okay, So how
do we actually

get back to
George W.
from Dr. B

here?

Okay, If you’ll just look at this relationship chart…….

Hmmm…..Okay,
never mind,
let’s try this a
little
differently….

Next page
please!

Okay so, let’s just start with everyone in our family today that is
related to George, and work backwards.

So, from here on all of Washington’s cousins will be shown in
yellow.

So we’ll just follow the yellow …“name ”…. road…?!!

1.

The Grandchildren, Children and Spouses of Jonny L. and Ellen Wadley Whisenant

Anna Carolina Bardaus Stephen Todd Heller Matthew David Bentley

William Alexander Bardaus Samuel Micah Heller …to be continued…

Anna W. and Sorin Jessi W. and Todd Sarah W. and David Jon and Reagan
Bardaus Heller Bentley Whisenant

2.

Ellen Wadley and Jonny L. Whisenant
Parents of Anna Lynn, Jessica Ellen, Sarah Elizabeth,

and Jonathan Lester Whisenant

Mom and Dad,
Mimi and Pops

3.

Ann Camp Braselton “Little Ann” and Theodore C. Wadley
Parents of Ellen Ann Wadley

If you have to
read this,

don’t get a big
head! “Stand
own your own

two feet!”

Gran and Granddaddy

4. Boyd Benjamin and Anna Dell Camp Braselton
Boyd
Parents of Ann Camp Braselton Anna Dell

“Big Ann”

Birth: Jul. 17,1891 Birth: May 27, 1902
Pendergrass Ga. Floyd County, Ga.
Death: Jan. 4,1938 Death: Apr. 10, 1992
Atlanta, Ga. Rome, Ga.

Boyd graduated from Teacher,
law school, and Rome, Ga.
passed the board
to practice in Texas,
but never pursued
law in Georgia.

5. Dr. Benjamin Franklin and Ada Boyd Braselton

Your 1st to 3rd Parents of Boyd Benjamin Braselton Ada
Great Grand
Parents Married November 12, 1884 Birth: Dec. 20, 1851
in Floyd Co., Ga. Death: Aug. 20, 1928
Benjamin
Rome, Ga.
Birth : Jan. 22, 1855
Jackson Co. Ga.
Death: Mar. 4, 1921
Rome, Ga.

Children: Hey Ada, Don’t
Mamie M. Braselton Burks (1886 - 1922)* where’s know
your pics Braz,
Ethlyn Irene Braselton (1888 - 1938)* what’d
Boyd Benjamin Braselton (1891 - 1938)* at? ya do?
Go off
Alice Marge Braselton (1894 - 1894)* and
leave em
Just a pic in Texas
of me an
my bros.

5a. Just a side note:
Just some interesting stuff about Dr. Braselton

He is in a listing of Jackson County Georgia Doctors from 1905 In 1879 he Graduated from the Atlanta Medical
which also shows him as having gone to Weatherford Texas. College which went on to become Emory School
of Medicine. Also, listed just above him is his
father in law W.H. Boyd who graduated from
there in 1856.

And he was appointed a health officer
there in Weatherford.

6. John Amos and Sophia Matilda Howell Braselton

Your 2nd to 4th Parents of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Braselton
Great Grand
Parents Their children:

John Amos James Reuben Braselton (1847 - 1928)
John Williamson Braselton (1850 - 1930)
Birth: Antoinette Celesta Braselton Harrison (1853 - 1893)
Mar. 24, 1822 Benjamin Franklin Braselton (1855 - 1921)
Hall Co. Ga. Alfred Roland Braselton (1857 - 1918)
Death: Julia Melissa Braselton Glenn (1860 – 1942)
Sep. 22, 1907 Nancy Irene Braselton Barber (1862 - 1941)
Pendergrass, Robert Lee Braselton (1866 - 1956)
Oscar Paige Braselton (1868 - 1927)
Jackson Co. Ga. Annie Laura Braselton Marlow (1871 - 1922)
Walter Webster Braselton (1874 - 1932)

John A. is buried at Pendergrass Baptist Matilda
Church and S. Matilda is buried Hopewell
Birth:
Baptist Church Aug. 14, 1829
South Carolina,
Death:
Aug. 8, 1882
Pendergrass
Jackson Co.
Ga.

7.

Your 3rd to 5th Ruben J. "Rube“ and Elizabeth "Betsie“ Stovall Braselton
Great Grand
Parents

Ruben Parents of John Amos Braselton Elizabeth

Birth: Dec. 30, 1788 Married Elizabeth Stovall June 20th, 1819 in Jackson Birth: 1796 Hall Co. GA.
Granville Co. N. C. Death: May 21, 1888
Death: Jan., 1844 County, Georgia.
Pendergrass Pendergrass

Their known children: Jackson Co. Ga., USA

Jackson Co. Ga. John Amos Braselton (1822 - 1907)

Titus V Braselton (1826 - 1911)

Flavius Joseph Braselton (1829 - 1837)

Dr. Jacob Braselton (1831 – 1867)

Benjamin Franklin Braselton (1835 - 1928)

There are no known grave markers
for Ruben and Betsie, It is reasonable to
assume that they are buried in the
Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery near
Gainesville, Ga. with their two sons Flavius
and Jacob and their daughter in law Matilda
wife of John Amos. There is a very large
area where there are many unmarked
graves. The church was a pioneer church
begun in 1808 before Hall county was even
created.

8. Jacob Braselton Sr. and Hanna Green Braselton
Your 4th to 6th
Parents of Ruben Braselton
Great Grand

Parents Hanna Green

Jacob Birth: Apr. 8, 1757

Birth: Jun. 27, 1749 Virginia

Frederick Co., Maryland Death: Oct. 11,1832

Death: Sep. 22, 1835 Jackson, Co. Ga.

Jackson Co. Ga. Hannah married Jacob

on 1772 in Virginia.

Hanna is George Washington’s 1st cousin three times removed and
where all the Braselton’s after her get their relationship to him.

He lived in Virginia Their children: Jacob and Hannah helped to
& N. C. during the war and John B Braselton (1774 - 1850) establish Walnut Fork Baptist
served in the Elizabeth Braselton Brown (1775 - 1805) Church in 1802 where their family
Revolutionary War as Pvt. Henry Braselton (1777 - 1851) worshiped. Jacob it is said, “was a
in the Va. and N.C. William D Braselton (1779 - 1858) God-fearing man who named all his
Continental troops. Hannah E Braselton Putman (1781 - 1833) children for Biblical characters”
In 1790 he and Hannah Mary Braselton Wilson (1783 - ?
settled in Georgia. Jacob Braselton Jr. (1785 - 1849)
In 1813 he served in the Green Braselton (1786 - 1820)
Ga. Militia and In 1825 he
received a land grant for Reuben J Braselton (1788 - 1844)
his Revolutionary War
Service. Daniel David Braselton (1790 - ?
Job Green Braselton (1792 - 1848)
Rebecca Braselton Brazeal (1795 - ?
Amos Braselton (1797 - 1875)
Sarah Braselton Bell (1799 - 1832)

8a. Okay, ….just one more side note :
Some cool things about some of Jacob and Hanna’s children.

Sorry, I mean like you
know me right ?

Can’t pass up a cool
piece of history?

How are you related to
Braselton Georgia?

You are related to Braselton Georgia
through one of Jacob and Hanna’s

others sons, your 4th Great
grandfather Rubens brother,
Job Green Braselton. His son and
grandsons founded Braselton

Georgia.
How are you connected to the Fort
Daniel Monument near Hamilton

Mill and Hog Mountain?
Another of Jacob and Hanna’s sons,
Rubens brother, Jacob Braselton Jr.,
served there during the war of 1812.

See the next three pages:

8b. Job Green Braselton The Braselton Boys

He was the 8th son of Jacob Sr. and Hannah.

Job Green and his wife Sarah had a son:

William Harrison Braselton Sr.

He bought the original 786 acres of land that the town of Braselton now includes in 1876. Braselton
spreads across 34 square miles; its position includes the intersection of four counties. He is your 1st
cousin five times removed and children’s 6 times removed.

William Harrison and his wife Sarah had three sons:
William Henry Braselton, Green Braselton, and John Oliver Braselton.

These are the three Braselton Bros. that started Braselton Ga.

They are your 2nd cousins four times removed and your children’s five times removed.

John Oliver Braselton is the “one that started it all”. In 1887, young John, only 8 years old constructed a
six-foot-by-six-foot merchandise house in the yard with the intention of selling items to the plantation’s
farm hands. Though John initially acted alone, his father encouraged his two brothers to join him; the
enterprise grew and became “Braselton Brothers”. The Braselton family were true “dealers in everything”
as the motto of the long-standing and fairly famous, family general mercantile claimed. For more than 100
years, the town … the entire town, incorporated in 1916, was the family business. A store, a bank, homes
for rent or sale, farming, a grist and flour mill, and even the land for the high school was all part of the
Braselton brothers’ enterprising portfolio. Today the original plantation of William Henry Braselton serves
as the town hall. Green Braselton’s home is called “The Stover House” and is an event venue. John Oliver’s
home was occupied by his son up until his death in 2009.

8c. Jacob Braselton Jr.

Jacob Jr., the 4th son of Jacob Sr. and Hannah, is your 5th and your children’s 6th Great-Uncle.
He married Mary Bryson. In 1815, Jacob and Mary joined Walnut Fork Baptist Church and he was
later made a deacon and clerk of the church. An eulogy and obituary for Jacob note that “Jacob was
an exemplary member of the church,” and “he bore his final illness with sustaining Christian
patience," and "died as he lived relying on the merits of his Savior."

8d.

Jacob Jr. served at Fort Daniel on Hog Mountain during the war of 1812 and was captain of the militia of
his district in Jackson Co., Georgia. He was also a Justice of the Peace in Jackson County for a number of
years. Fort Daniel is at the beginning of what came to be known as the original Peachtree Road, the one
from whom all others are named. It goes about 40 miles to the south to the village of Standing Peachtree
on the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta. This old road was opened to haul military supplies to the river.
These were to be floated downstream to Gen. Jackson’s and Gen. Floyd’s troops who were converging on
the Indians in the Creek Wars of 1813-1814. Built in late 1813 or early 1814, Fort Daniel, a stockade, was
the extreme western point of settlement in Georgia. All land to the west and northwest were Indian
territory.

Ft. Daniel is now a Historic Site and Archaeological Research Park.

Tracing of a sketch
plan provided to
Georgia in 1794 by
Secretary of War
Henry Knox at the
request of President
George Washington
(Georgia State
Archives).

9. Okay now, back to your grandparents…

Your 5th to 7th Duff and Anne Willis Green
Great Grand
Parents They were the parents of Hannah Green, Jacob Braselton Sr.’s wife

Anne Duff
Birth: Sept. 14th 1731(4)? Birth: c 1730
Married: c 1750 Death: c 1770
Death: 1820 Fauquier Co., Va.
Boyle Co. Kentucky
In 1759 in Fauquier
Anne is County Duff was a
George Washington's Commissioner of
1st cousin twice removed Peace, in 1761
Churchwarden, and
1764 a surveyor.

Duff and Anne’s children: Yeah, now it’s Two of Duff’s brothers were also
Thomas Green 1756 my turn, get connected to the Washington family
Hannah Green 1757 on with the through their wives.
Henry Green 1759 Robert Green, married Mary "Patty"
Willis Green 1755 story! Ball, who was a 1st cousin of George
Eleanor Anne Green 1766 Washington and Major James Green,
William Green 1770 married Elizabeth Jones, who had
been married to Washington’s
nephew .

9a.

Cause Anne or Sarah Anne as some people call her and her
errr…mothers?, …and her Dad, have an interesting story…….
So before we get to her parents, Col. Henry and Mildred (Lewis) Howell
Brown Willison on page 35…There's a couple of things we need to
explain…And it’s gonna take ‘bout the next three pages to do it!

9b. Okay so here goes… My
Mom?
…it seems that people were dying and remarrying about like a game of …IS MY
musical spouses and often to close relatives, so things could get pretty COUSIN
confusing fast! So, Anne’s father Col. Willis, was married three times as !!???
was Anne’s mother Mildred Lewis Howell Brown Willis, and her last
husband was Col. Willis.

However, …Col. Willis married again after she died but this time to
Mildred Washington Lewis Gregory the cousin of his last wife Mildred
Lewis Howell Brown. The mothers of these two wives were sisters. So,
that makes Anne a cousin of the new wife who becomes her
stepmother???

Okay but that's not all… Mildred Washington Lewis Gregory,
Col. Willis’s last wife, is the daughter of Lawrence Washington and sister of
Augustine Washington, George Washington’s father and she becomes
George Washington’s God-Mother at his Baptism!

Confused yet? Cause there is still more… Okay, as we have seen, Col. Willis
marries two Mildreds and the evidence all seems to point to Mildred Lewis
Howell Brown Willis as being Anne Green’s mother. However… there are
folks out there that believe that Anne was born in 1734 not 1731, and it is
the second Mildred that is her real mother not just her stepmother. Either
way, you all are still cousins of George Washington and still related to
everybody before him anyway.

9c.

So, for the curious, there are on the next pages “three quotes”
about Anne and her relationship to the Washingtons

A. “Anne Willis was born on September 14, 1731/4 in Fauquier County, Virginia of Henry Willis and
Mildred Lewis. She married Duff Green of Fauquier County in 1752. She died in 1820 in Danville,
Kentucky, and was buried there.
Anne was about 9 years old when her mother, Mildred Lewis (widow of [1] John Howell & [2] Dr. John
Brown) died after giving birth to at least 3 Lewis children including Anne. Her mother was the second
wife of Colonel Henry Willis who had been married first to the late Anne Bernard Alexander with whom
he had 6 children. After Anne’s mother died he married (3) Mildred Warner Washington, daughter of
Mildred Warner and Lawrence Washington George Washington’s Grandparents, who became our
Anne’s step-mother. Her step-mother was also her second cousin since her mother Mildred and her
step-mother Mildred were first cousins through their mothers who had been Warner sisters - confusing
to say the least. Unfortunately, after Henry’s death Anne was in essence an orphan because both of her
true parents had died. Several years after her father died (when she was about 13 yrs old), Hancock Lee
was appointed by the court as guardian for her (for 100 pounds) along with Anthony Strother, on Dec 4,
1744. She married Duff Green abt. 1750 as his 2nd wife. When he died in 1776, his estate was left to a
son of his earlier marriage and she had to fend for herself. Her oldest daughter, Hannah Green, had
already married and moved first to Granville Co., NC and then to Georgia with her husband, Jacob
Braselton. Anne moved to Kentucky with her son Willis Green and the rest of her children to live out
the rest of her days. She is buried in Bellevue cemetery in Danville, Boyle Co., Ky “

9d.

B. “Anne was the daughter of Mildred Lewis, one of the three wives of Col. Henry M. Willis. Mildred
Lewis was the daughter of Col. John Lewis III and Elizabeth Warner (1672-1720). Elizabeth Warner Lewis
was the daughter of Col. Augustine Warner II and Mildred Reade and was the sister of Mildred Warner
who married Captain Lawrence Washington, the grandfather of President George Washington.
Therefore, Anne's mother was the first cousin of the father of George Washington (Augustine
Washington) who was named after Anne's great-grandfather Augustine Warner.”

C. “Duff Green also married Sarah Anne Willis, born September 14, 1731, who was the daughter of
Col. Henry "Harry“ Willis (the founder of Fredericksburg, Va.) and his second wife, Mildred Lewis,
who had also been married to Dr. John Brown and John Howell. Mildred Lewis was the daughter of
John Lewis and his wife Elizabeth Warner, who was the sister of Mildred Warner, who was the
grandmother of Pres. George Washington, having married Capt. Lawrence Washington, the father of
Augustine Washington, who was the father of the President.”

Almost there!
The next page continues with Anne’s parents Col. Henry Willis and Mildred Lewis

10. Your 6th to 8th Col. Henry and Mildred (Lewis) Howell Brown Willis
Great Grand Parents
The parents of Anne Willis
who was Col. Willis's first wife

Settler and Founder of Fredericksburg, Va.

Willis Hill Cemetery

Col. Henry Willis. Oh Mildred Lewis Howell Brown Willis
Birth: 1696 Mildred
Gloucester Co. Va. dear… daughter of John Lewis
and Elizabeth Warner
Death: Sep. 14, 1740 Birth: circa 1691
New Kent County, Va.
Fredericksburg Death: October 17, 1732
Fredericksburg
Spotsylvania Co., Va. Yes Spotsylvania, Co. Va.

Married three times: dear… Married three times:
• John Howell
* Ann Alexander Yes dear… • Dr. John Brown
Hey!, • Col. Henry Willis
* Mildred (Lewis) Howell Brown (1691-1732),
He means
daughter of John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner me!...
cousin!!
Mildred (Washington) Lewis Gregory

(1690-1747), daughter of Lawrence Washington and

Mildred Warner

10a. Mildred (Washington) Lewis Gregory Willis

Col. Willis’ second wife
Anne’s stepmother and first cousin

She was the sister of Augustine
Washington (George Washington’s father)
Aunt and God-Mother of
George W.

Parents: They say I’m in Birth: 1696
Lawrence Washington here somewhere, Fredericksburg, Va.
Mildred Warner Washington right behind the Death: Sep. 5, 1747
(George Washington’s Grandparents) Confederate lines
of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.
Her Husbands : Fredericksburg of
1) John Lewis Burial: Willis Hill Cemetery
2) Roger Gregory in 1862 Maryes Heights
3) Henry Willis * Fredericksburg City
Virginia, USA

And Mildred has her own amazing story
on the next page!

10b. Mildred Washington Lewis Gregory Willis

(ca 1697 -1747)
“Mildred Washington was one of the three orphans of Maj. Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner,
his wife, who are chiefly remembered as George Washington's grandparents.
Little Mildred was certainly less than eighteen months old, probably much younger than that when she is
first mentioned in her father's will, written 11 Mar. 1697/8. Within three weeks he died; then, in 1700/1
her mother Mildred Warner died. Mildred Washington, at age three, was now an orphan. She and her two
brothers, John, eight years old, and Augustine, six, were then raised by their father's cousin, John
Washington.
The next thing we know of Mildred is that she married around 1716 to John Lewis. Unfortunately,
however, he died on April 7, 1718, leaving Mildred a childless widow of twenty.
Her second husband was Roger Gregory and was the father of her three daughters. Mildred had inherited
from her father a twenty-five hundred acre property in the present Fairfax County. Her grandfather, the
immigrant John Washington, had patented it soon before his death in 1677. In 1726 Mildred and Roger
Gregory sold this tract to her brother, Augustine Washington. It is, of course, the place that Augustine's
son, Lawrence Washington, later named Mt. Vernon and became the home of George Washington.
After Roger Gregory's death in 1730 or 1731, Mildred acted as godmother for her brother Augustine's son,
George. Thus, she is invariably remembered today as “George Washington's aunt and godmother.”
In November, 1733, her thrice married cousin, Mildred Lewis Brown Howell Willis died, and the widower,
Henry Willis, immediately asked our Mildred Gregory to become his third wife. The story is that she was
discovered weeping bitterly after her cousin Mildred's death, but explained that she was not weeping so
much at the loss of her cousin, as at the prospect that Col. Henry Willis would inevitably come courting,
and she did not know what to answer him. Indeed it might well have given her pause, for he had a family
of eight or ten children then still living, from his two previous marriages. They ranged in age from Mary,
age seventeen, and just having married Hancock Lee, down to Isabella, a six months babe in arms.
Nevertheless, within two months of cousin Mildred's death, our Mildred did marry Henry Willis. Soon, at
the end of 1734, Mildred had her fourth and last child, Lewis Willis.”

11. John and Elizabeth Warner Lewis Elizabeth Warner Lewis

Your 7 to 9th Mildred Lewis’s Parents and
Great Grand Parents
Great Grand Parents of
Col. John "Councillor" Lewis, III Commander Meriwether Lewis

But…..this IS Warner Hall Parents: Augustine Warner II
and Mildred Reade Warner
my best side!
Birth: Nov. 24, 1672
One of His Majesty's Chesapeake City, Va.
Honorable Council for Death: Feb. 5, 1720
this Colony. He built
"Warner Hall" Burial for Both: "Here Lyeth Interr'd ye Body of Elizabeth Lewis
Warner Hall Graveyard the Daughter of Col Augustine Warner and
Birth: Nov. 30, 1669 Gloucester Co., Va. Mildred his Wife and late wife of John Lewis Esq
New Kent County, Va. She was Born at Chesake the 24th of November,
Death: Nov. 14, 1725 1672 Aged 47 years 2 Months and 12 Days, and
Gloucester Co., Va. was a Tender Mother of 14 Children. She
Departed this Life the 5th Day of February
1719/20."

The Lewis and Clarke Connection on the next page!

11a Your 2nd cousin 6-8 times removed Captain Meriwether Lewis

There’s a Captain in The United States
McDonald’s Army, Private Secretary to
over there!! President Jefferson, Senior
Commander of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition, and Governor
of the Territory of Louisiana.

Meriwether Lewis was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1774. After Captain Meriwether Lewis
his father died while he was a young boy, he moved near Athens,
Georgia with his mother and stepfather. There he developed a love for The Lewis Branch
the outdoors, and became a skilled woodsman.
Lt. William Lewis(F)/Lucy Meriwether (M)
Lewis moved back to Virginia at the age of 13 to begin his education. Col. Robert Lewis (GF)/ Jane Meriwether (GM)
There he graduated from college in 1793, and joined the Virginia militia.
In 1794 he was assigned to help put down the Whiskey Rebellion and Back to :
worked his way up to the rank of Captain. In 1801, Lewis as appointed as John (GGF) and Elizabeth Warner Lewis (GGM)
an aide to President Jefferson. He worked closely with President See: Lewis and Clark
Jefferson in a variety of capacities.
See: Meriwether Lewis
He is most famous for his role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition between
1804-1806. After purchasing the Louisiana Territory, President Jefferson See Lewis Family:
commissioned a U.S. Army unit to explore and map the territory, find a
passable route to the Pacific Ocean, conduct scientific inquiries into
plant and animal life, and establish trade with various Native American
tribes. This specialized unit was called the Corps of Discovery.
Meriwether Lewis was the captain of the unit, and William Clark served
as his lieutenant. For this reason, the team is commonly called the 'Lewis
and Clark Expedition.' Following his return from the West, Lewis was
appointed Governor of the Louisiana Territory in 1807. He died in 1809
from two gunshot wounds, the circumstances of which are shrouded in
mystery. A fierce debate continues to rage among historians over it’s
cause. He is buried where he died at the Meriwether Lewis Memorial on
the Natchez Trace Parkway near Hohenwald, Tennessee.

….with the next page…..

12. Col. Augustine Warner II and Mildred Reade

Your 8 to 10th Parents of Elizabeth Warner Lewis and Mildred Warner Washington
Great
Grand Parents

Yep, we are
definitely
the Dudes!

.

Birth: Jun. 3, 1642 Birth: Oct. 2, 1643
Va. York Co Va.
Death: Jun. 19, 1681 Death: Oct. 20, 1686
Gloucester Co, Va.
Daughter of George and Elizabeth
Great-grandfather of Pres George Washington. His (Martiau) Reade. Married to Col.
daughter, Mildred Warner, married Capt. Lawrence Augustine Warner II. , Mother of
Washington, and their son Capt. Augustine Washington was Mildred Warner Washington.,
the father of the President. Great-grandmother to George
He was a member of the King's Council; He served in the Washington.
House of Burgesses from 1666 to 1677 and was its Speaker
on two separate occasions. He later served on the Burial Both: Warner Hall Graveyard
Governor's Council from 1677 to 1681.

12a. Augustine's and Mildred's Daughters
Elizabeth, Mildred, and Mary, and Augustine’s father,
connect them

and

You!

to a bunch of real notable folks !
Next five slides!

12b. The Queen's American Ancestors

By Ryan Wadleigh
“Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom has a family tree that is filled with the royalty and nobility
of Europe. It might surprising then to learn that the Queen actually has American ancestors. Ironically
enough, these same American forebears are also shared by George Washington, the old nemesis of
the British. The most recent common ancestors of Queen Elizabeth and George Washington were
Augustine Warner II and his wife Mildred Reade of colonial Virginia. Both Augustine and Mildred were
born in the early 1640s in Virginia. His parents, Augustine I and Mary Towneley Warner had migrated
to Virginia from England about 1628 (although Mildred's mother was at least half French). Mildred
Reade also has proven direct descent from King Edward III of England from her paternal grandmother.”
“Augustine Warner II was born in 1642/43 in Virginia. In 1658, at about the age of 16, he was sent to
England where he was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School in London. After finishing his
education, he returned to Virginia where he married Mildred Reade, the daughter of a prominent
Virginian landowner. They lived together on a Virginian estate given to them by Mildred's father until
1674 when he inherited his family's estate - Warner Hall - from his father Augustine I. The land
containing Warner Hall had originally been granted to Augustine I in 1642 and the plantation house
was built sometime after this date. The estate is located in Gloucester County, Virginia on the Severn
River, off of Chesapeake Bay. Augustine II was prominent in Virginia politics during his adulthood. He
served in the House of Burgesses from 1666 to 1677 and was its Speaker on two separate occasions.
He later served on the Governor's Council from 1677 to 1681.”

“Augustine II was also closely involved with Bacon's Rebellion of 1676-1677, being a

supporter of Governor Berkeley. During the crisis, the rebels managed to seize Warner Hall, damaging

the house in the process.”

12c.

“After the death of Augustine Warner II in 1681, his widow Mildred and their children continued to live at
Warner Hall. Apparently, after Augustine's death Mildred was left with custody of a large amount of arms
and ammunition (perhaps left behind during Bacon's Rebellion) and she refused to give them up until they
were taken from her by force. The couple had three known sons, but all three died without producing
children. The surviving heirs of Augustine and Mildred Warner were thus their three daughters: Elizabeth
Warner Lewis (Anne Green’s Grandmother, and Great Grand mother of Merriweather Lewis), Mildred
Warner Washington Gale (George Washington's Grandmother) and Mary Warner Smith (Queen
Elizabeth's and the Queen Mother’s ancestor).”
“Elizabeth Warner married John Lewis and inherited Warner Hall from her brother George in about 1702
and lived there until her death in 1720. Another of her direct descendants was Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis
and Clark fame being was his Great Grand Mother.”

Mildred Warner was married first to Lawrence Washington and second to George Gale. In 1700, she
moved with her second husband to England, where she died soon after. Mildred is the grandmother of
George Washington.

Your 10 to 12th Cousin

Mommas don’t let Just be thankful you Just smile We’re related to
your babies grow guys now have cotton and wave commoners??!!
up to be named underwear, if it were Mom, smile
Merry- Weather! wool you wouldn’t be and wave!

smiling either.

12d. Y’all should come
for a visit!
“Warner Hall stayed in the family for about 200
years, being passed down to descendants of
Elizabeth Warner Lewis. Eventually, the plantation
was sold to an unrelated family in the 1830s.
Unfortunately, the estate suffered at least two
devastating fires that destroyed the original 17th
Century home. The owners then rebuilt a colonial-
style mansion on the original foundation, and it is
still standing to this day. “

“Warner Hall is currently a bed & breakfast (Inn at Warner Hall) and is on the National Register of
Historic Places. Although the actual house dates from the 19th Century, there are numerous
outbuildings and the family cemetery which survive from earlier times.”

“In 1957, Queen Elizabeth II made a trip to the United States and Virginia to commemorate the 350th
anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. During the trip, she visited Warner Hall and placed a wreath
on the grave of her ancestor Augustine Warner II. During the trip she was also given a gift of a copy of a
portrait of Augustine Warner. In England, Warner Hall is apparently known as the "home of the Queen's
American ancestors." During her 1957 trip, Elizabeth was quoted in a speech saying: "Yes, I am proud of
my American ancestry and of the part they played in the war that we fought against us."

12e.

“The cemetery is the final resting place for many of
the Warner and Lewis family members. The family
cemetery, is also the resting place for such well
known ancestors of George Washington, Robert E.
Lee, The Queen Mother of England, and Queen
Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth has visited Gloucester
where she placed a wreath upon her ancestor's
grave. The cemetery has thirteen graves and plaques
in memory of all the family. The Association for
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (A.P.V.A.)
acquired the cemetery in 1903 .”

12f. Col. Augustine Warner II

Georgie,… and
Why isn’t your
Mildred Reade’s
uniform the
Kings Red? e relationship to George

Washington begins with

the marriage of their

daughter

Mildred

to

Lawrence Washington Err..ahh….well,..
ya know...new
The Washington Branch
Next three slides: generation,
whole new style

Gramps!
BTW…nice hair!