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12g. Capt. Lawrence and Mildred Warner Washington

Parents of Mildred (Washington) Lewis Gregory Willis and Augustine Washington

Capt. Lawrence Washington Mildred Warner

Born:1659 Born: 1671
Westmoreland Co., Va. Gloucester Co., Va.
Died: Feb. 1698 (aged 38) Died: January30 1701 (aged 30)
Warner Hall, Gloucester Co. Whitehaven, England
Va.
“In 1688, Lawrence married Mildred Warner,

one of three daughters of Mildred Reade and

“Lawrence was a lawyer, soldier, planter, and a Augustine Warner II. By her, he had three
member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in children: John, Augustine, and Mildred .
colonial Virginia who was educated in England. Lawrence died at the age of 38 in February
He was named for his paternal grandfather 1698, the same year in which his daughter
Rev. Lawrence Washington and was the Mildred was born.
paternal grandfather of George Washington.” Following his death, she married George Gale,
who moved the family to Whitehaven,
“Lawrence was the eldest son of Lt. Col. John England. Mildred died in 1701 at the age of 30
Washington (from Essex, England) and Anne following a difficult childbirth. Her will
Pope. He was born in 1659, on his father's stipulated that Gale become the guardian of
estate at Bridges Creek, in Westmoreland her children, but in 1704 Lawrence's cousin
County, Colony of Virginia.” John Washington successfully petitioned to
“Upon the death of his father, he inherited an have custody transferred to him. At that point,
estate on the Potomac River, called Little the three Washington children returned to
Hunting Creek (2,500 acres) (which would Virginia to his care.”
eventually be renamed Mount Vernon by

Lawrence's grandson”

12h.

Augustine and Mary Ball Washington

The Parents of George Washington

Born: Nov. 12, 1694 Nov. 30, 1708
Westmoreland Co. Va. Lancaster Co., Va.
Died: April 12, 1743 (aged 48) Died: Aug. 26, 1789
Stafford Co. Va. (aged 80)
“Augustine was only four years old when his father Spotsylvania Co, Va.
died inheriting about 1,000 acres. “Mary was fatherless at three and
He was active in the Anglican Church and in local orphaned at twelve. Mary Ball first met
politics. He took the oath as Justice of the Peace for Augustine Washington at the home of
the county court in July 1716, and served as County her brother in England. Augustine was
Sheriff. In 1730, Washington married Mary Ball, sick and Mary Ball nursed him back to
George was born to them in 1732.” health. Augustine returned to Virginia
and learned his first wife Jane Butler
What da ya Washington had died during his journey
mean, abroad. When Washington heard that
Mary Ball had come to Virginia, he went
What cherry over to where she lived and proposed.
tree??!! They married on March 6, 1731 when
she was 22 years old. It was her first
marriage and his second.”

Ok folks we
are finally
here with
George W.

Just FYI, there is so
much stuff on him, it’s
impossible to do him
justice. So, on his pages
I just imbedded some
good web links that will
take you to some good
websites, and I included
some quotes that might
help you get to know

him better.

Aren’t you just “Quaking” with excitement!!

12i. George and Martha Washington
Your first cousin
9-11 times removed George Washington was an American statesman and
soldier who served as the first President of the United
States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United
States. He served as the Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War,
and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted
the United States Constitution. As a driving force behind
the nation's establishment he came to be known as the
“Father of our country," both during his lifetime and to this

day he is considered the most celebrated person in
American history.

“‘Before there was a nation, before there was a symbol of
this young nation — a flag, a constitution, a national seal —
there was Washington. . . . steadying the symbols, lending

strength to them instead of drawing from them.’”

See “The Indispensable Man”:

For a great biography see:

His home and museum see:

12J.
George:

Born: February 22, 1732
Died: December 14, 1799

Martha:
Born: June 2, 1731
Died: May 22, 1802

On Character, Friends, and Social Justice

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral,
intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles), the character of an honest man.”

"a good moral character is the first essential in a man, It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but
virtuous."

“Your love of liberty – your respect for the laws – your habits of industry – and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the
strongest claims to national and individual happiness.”

“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.”

“The unfortunate condition of the persons whose labour in part I employed, has been the only unavoidable subject of regret.”

“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is

only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and (in) this, as far as my suffrage

On Slavery See: will go, shall never be wanting.”

12K. George Washington

Of Religion, Reason, Morality, and the National Welfare

“Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his
reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said,

that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.”
“It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.”

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that (National) morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid
us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

“If the freedom of speech (and religion 1st amendment) is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”

“Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment
should it be left to irresponsible action.”

“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free
government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.”
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much
to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so
plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”

13. Col. Augustine I and Mary Towneley Warner

Your 9th to 11th Parents of Augustine Warner II Birth: May 15, 1614
Great Grand Parents
Lancashire, England
Birth: Nov. 28, 1610
Norfolk, England Death: Aug. 11, 1662
Death: Dec. 24, 1674
Gloucester Co., Va. Gloucester Co., Va.

@Donald Trump
…So like who

needs Rogaine?

Col. Augustine Warner I came to Virginia in

1628 at the age of seventeen, one of a group

of thirty-four settlers. His first land acquisition

of 250 acres came seven years later. About
Thos dead whilest most 1657, he moved across the York River to
men live he canot dy
Gloucester County, where he settled and built
His name will live fresh in the first house at Warner Hall. He was Burgess
their memory
from York in 1652, and from Gloucester in
True worth is highly
1658. He was a member of the King's Council,
shown in liveing well
1659-74. He is the 4th great-grandfather to
When future ages of his Gen Robert E Lee through his daughter Susan
power shall tell
“Sarah” who married Lawrence Towneley, Like George said, It was the
[A Virginia Founder] cotton were fighting for, not
Lee’s ancestor.
slaves, cotton under ware!!

13a. Your 5th cousin General Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III and Ann Hill Carter
4 to 6 times

removed

Parents of Robert E. Lee.

Gen. Henry Lee: A contemporary of George Washington, a patriot,
and politician, who served as the ninth Governor of
Virginia, and as the Virginia Representative to Ann Hill Carter
Congress. During the American Revolution, “Light See Women of History:
Horse Harry” earned his fame as a swashbuckling
commander of a cavalry and light infantry brigade. Born: March 26, 1773
After the war he emerged as an ardent Federalist Died: June 26, 1829
who helped insure passage of the Constitution.

Born: January 29, 1756 Lee line back to Col. Augustine Warner I
Died: March 25, 1818
Lucy Ludwell Grymes and Henry Lee II
Charles Grymes and Frances Jennings
Alice Towneley and John Grymes
Susan Sarah Warner and Lawrence Towneley
Col Augustine I and Mary Towneley Warner

See: Lee Chapel and Museum :

13b. Your 5th cousin Robert Edward and Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee
5 to 7 times
removed Lee was, “in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our
Nation. . . . selfless almost to a fault . . . noble as a leader and as a man, and
unsullied as I read the pages of our history. From deep conviction I simply say
this: a nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul.
Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his
rare qualities . . . we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be

strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Confederate General Robert E. Lee is perhaps the most iconic and most widely

respected of all Civil War commanders. Though he opposed secession, he

resigned from the U.S. Army to join the forces of his native state, rose to

Born: January 19, 1807, command the largest Confederate army, and became the President of Born: October 1, 1808
Stratford Hall, Va Washington College in the post war years. Died: November 5, 1873
Died: October 12, 1870, Great-granddaughter of
Lexington, Virginia, Va See Robert E. Lee :

Martha Custis Washington

Quotes about Secession and the War From R.E. Lee:

“As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and institutions, and would defend any State if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no
greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but

honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The
framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was
intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for "perpetual union," so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a

government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled”.
“Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon

Virginia, my native state?”
“With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my

relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army...”

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do
right is precisely the same”

“All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should
be administered in purity and truth.”

“They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck
of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I
foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.”

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all
that preceded it.”

13c. Quotes on Slavery, Manhood, Duty, His Faith, and reuniting the Country

“While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave
the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.”

“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.”

“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied
of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.”

“The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever
over the silly--the forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain
light
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he
strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself
when he cannot help humbling others.”

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things.
You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through
the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit
to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.
No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God,
and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed “It is history that teaches us to hope.”
for them.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity.
The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

13d. “Until, in the course of Providence, sectional animosity in this country culminated in fury, and great questions of state were referred to

the arbitrament of the sword, there was no man who stood so fairly in the eyes of the whole American people, or who had so sure and

unquestioned a title to their esteem and affection, as General Lee. That he deplored the separation he could not prevent, is clear enough.

That his own determination and course were based upon a high sense of duty, none can doubt. In the great crisis that was upon us, wealth,

honor, life to him were as nothing. The question of duty was all in all. Deciding that in favor of his native State, he abandoned everything,

forsook the strong, and gave himself heart and soul to what, none better than he knew, was the weaker side. Whether he was right or

wrong, God knows. The honesty of his purpose and his magnanimity the whole world has approved. The principles of his character, the

motives of his actions, and his fidelity to Christian responsibilities, may be admired, regardless of politics and sectional differences. In these

he glorified God; for these he will be admired and loved the world over; and for these he is commended to the young people of America.”

Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire (1813–1897) See General Robert E. Lee, The Christian Soldier:

See Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University:

Stratford hall Arlington National Cemetery /
home of the Lee’s of Virginia The Robert E. Lee Memorial house

“In 1925 United States designated Arlington
House as a National Memorial to Robert E.
Lee. This designation was the result of the
respect he earned from the North and South
when he pushed for reconstruction after the
Civil War.
Arlington House is a Greek revival style
mansion located in Arlington, Virginia. The
house was once the home of Robert E. Lee
and his wife. the house overlooks the
Potomac River and the National Mall in
Washington, D.C. During the American Civil
War, the grounds of the mansion were
selected as the site of Arlington National
Cemetery.”

See Also:
Washington and Lee University

The ninth oldest institution
of higher education in America.

And Augustine II’s wife

Mildred Reade

Next nine pages connects them

and you

to even more!

14. Col. George and Elizabeth Martiau Reade

Your 9th to 11th Parents of Mildred Reade
Great Grand wife of Augustine Warner II
Parents and GG grandparents of Thomas Nelson Jr.
Signer of the Declaration of independence.
Through their son Robert Reade

Birth: 25 Oct 1608 Birth: 12 Dec 1625
Hampshire, England York County, Va.
Death: Oct 1674 Death: 10 Feb 1686
Yorktown, Va. Yorktown, VA.

Col. Reade, the ninth great–grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, was born in England on Oct. 25, 1608. He came to
Jamestown in 1637 as secretary to the Governor. He was a : Captain, Major, and Colonel in the colonial militia; acting

Secretary of state of the colony and also acting Governor; land owner; member of the House of Burgesses for James
City county and York county; and a member of the King’s / Governor’s Council of Virginia. He died in October, 1674,
and is buried at Yorktown.
Col. Reade was the ninth great–grandson of King Edward III, who came to the throne of England in 1327. Edward III
selected the original members of the Knights of the Garter.
In 1641, Col. Reade married Elizabeth Martiau, who was born at Elizabeth City, Va., in 1625. She was the eldest
daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martiau “Father of Yorktown”. She is descended from the Royal House of England starting

with Henry the III thru Edward I, King of England.
Their son Robert married Mary Lilly, they would become the Great Grandparents of Thomas Nelson Jr. signer of the
Declaration of Independence. They are connected to the Warner/Washington, Reade/ Nelson, and Martiau Branches

Edward Ill

14a Robert and Mary Lilly Reade Mary Lilly Reade
Birth: 1662
Robert Reade Parents of Margret Reade Nelson York County, Va.
Birth :1644 Great Grandparents of Thomas Nelson Jr. Death: 1722
Yorktown, York York County, Va.
County, Va. Colonial Yorktown Burial Unknown
Death: 30 Dec 1712
York County, Va. Robert served as Justice of York, in 1692
Burial :Unknown and owned 750 acres in York County

Son of
Col. George and
Elizabeth Martiau
Reade
and brother of
Mildred Reade
Warner

The Nelsons of Yorktown, the Thomas Nelson Jr. Branch : 1 of 5

14b. Margaret Reade

and

Thomas "Scotch Tom“ Nelson

daughter of
Robert Reade and Mary Lilly

And
Grand Parents of
Thomas Nelson Jr.

Grace Episcopal Churchyard Yorktown, Va. Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson was Margaret Reade Nelson
the progenitor of all the Nelsons in
Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson Yorktown. He was born to Hugh and Birth: 1654
Sarah Nelson who were cloth York County Va.
Birth: Feb. 20, 1677 merchants from Penrith, England. Death: unknown
Penrith, Eden District Yorktown Va.
Cumbria, England A of charter member of the Virginia
Death: Oct. 7, 1745 Land Company, a trustee of the port This portrait of Margaret Reade
Yorktown, Va. and land of Yorktown, a planter, Nelson can be seen in the
tavern owner, sloop owner, sheriff, Thomas Nelson home in
Here lieth, the certain hope of being warehouse and mill owner, iron Yorktown, Va. She was the first
raised up in Christ, Thomas Nelson, mine owner, member of the House wife of Thomas Nelson
Gentleman. Son of Hugh and Sarah of Burgess’s, and Deputy Secretary progenitor of the Nelson family
Nelson, of Penrith, in the County of of the Colony. of Virginia, married about 1710.
Cumberland. Born the 20th day of
February, in the year of our Lord, Children of Margaret Reade and
1677. He completed a well-spent life on Thomas Nelson were:
the 7th day of October, 1745. Aged 68. William Nelson - born in 1711
Mary Nelson - born about 1713
2 of 5 Thomas Nelson - born about 1716

14c. William Nelson Sr. and Elizabeth Burwell Nelson
Parents of Thomas Nelson Jr.

President of the Dominion of Virginia
and President of the Kings Counsel
and known as “President Nelson”.

Birth: Nov. 19, 1711 Birth: 1718
Yorktown, Va. Lancaster, Va.
Death: Nov. 19, 1772 Death: 1798
Yorktown, Va. Yorktown, Va.

Grace Episcopal Children:
Churchyard
Elizabeth Nelson Thompson
Yorktown, Va. Thomas Nelson Jr. 1738 - 1789
Nathaniel Nelson 1745 - ?
Inscription: Hugh Nelson 1750 - 1800
Robert Nelson 1752 - 1818
Here lies the body of the Honourable WILLIAM NELSON William Nelson 1754 - 1813

Esquire late President of His Majesty's Council in this “Elizabeth Burwell Nelson had many sons and
many daughers, but none of the latter lived
Dominion. In whom the love of man and the love of God so beyond the age of twelve years. One of their sons
was burned to death. These and other misfortunes
restrained and enfocred each other and so invigorated the made Mrs. Nelson "a woman of sorrowful spirit."
The same authority asserts: "She was a truly pious
mental powers in general as not only to defend him from the and conscientious woman. Her private and public
exercises of religion, her well-known frequent
vices of follies of his country but also to renter it a mater of prayers for her children and pious instruction of
them, and exemplary conduct in all things,
difficult decision in what part of laudable conduct he most established this beyond all contradiction.""

excelled. Whether in the tender and endearing

accomplishments of domestic life or in the more active duties

of a wider circuit as a neighbor, a gentleman or a magistrate,

whether in the graces of hospitality, or in the possession of

piety. Reader if you feel the spirit of that excellent ardour

which aspires to the felicity of conscious virtue animated by

those consolations and divine admonitions, perform the task

and expect the distinction of the righteous man. He died the
3 of 5
19th of November, Anno Domini 1772. Aged 61.

14d Your 3rd cousin 7 - 9 times removed Thomas Nelson Jr. and Lucy Grymes

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Planter, member of the Virginia House of
Burgesses, initiator of the Independence

motion in the Virginia Convention,
Delegate to the Continental Congress and
Signer of the Declaration of Independence,

Officer and Commander of the Virginia
Militia, Governor of Virginia.

Birth: Dec. 18, 1738 Birth: Sep. 4, 1743
Yorktown, Va. Middlesex, Va.
Death: Jan. 2, 1789 Death: Sep. 18, 1830
Hanover, Va.
Hanover Co., Va.

“Thomas Nelson Jr. was born to one of the wealthiest merchant families in Yorktown, Virginia. His father, William Nelson, had been Virginia's
Governor twice. At age 14, Thomas was sent to England to attend school, and he was educated at Christ's College at Cambridge University.
Graduating in 1760, he returned to Virginia the next year, when he was 22. While aboard ship on the return journey, he was elected to the
Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1762, he married Lucy Grymes, a talented harpsichord player and daughter of Philip Grymes. Together t hey
would have 13 children. In 1772, his father died, leaving him 20,000 acres of land and more than 400 slaves. Just two years later, in 1774,
after hearing about the Boston Tea Party, he performed an act against the British Tea Tax by boarding a merchant ship, Virginia, which was
anchored near his home, and dumped several chests of tea into the York River. In an age when destroying another person's property was a
serious crime, this was a very risky act, yet he was not punished for doing this. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775
to 1777, and again in 1779. He was one of the first congressmen to favor independence, and urged his fellow delegates to support the cause
of independence. The following spring, in May 1777, he suffered the first of many strokes. Returning home, he seemed to recover, but would
have additional strokes as well as periodic bouts of asthma. Despite these health problems, he kept active in politics, and in 1781, he was
elected as Virginia's Governor, succeeding Thomas Jefferson. In addition, he commanded the Virginia Militia with the rank of General. In the
fall of 1781, General Nelson led 3,000 Virginia Militiamen as part of George Washington's Army besieging Yorktown. When the British took
refuge in his home, American artillerymen refused to fire on the house, in respect to General Nelson. Nelson then aimed and fired a cannon
at his own home, and ordered the men to fire at his house, destroying it. The British surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, marking
the end of the major fighting in the American Revolution. Thomas Nelson had sacrificed his health, his home and his fortune to help win
independence. He died in 1787 at the age of fifty while living at his son's home in Hanover County, Virginia.” (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)

4 of 5

14e.

See:

and

“The illustrious General Thomas Nelson is no Grace Episcopal Churchyard Yorktown, Va.
more! He paid the last great debt to nature, on
Sunday, the fourth of the present month, at his “Few patriots of the revolution have descended to the
estate in Hanover. He who undertakes barely to
recite the exalted virtues which adorned the life grave more justly honoured and beloved. Few possessed
of this great and good man, will unavoidably
pronounce a panegyric on human nature. As a a more ample fortune; few contributed more liberally to
man, a citizen, a legislator, and a patriot, he
exhibited a conduct untarnished and undebased support the cause of liberty. It was the patriotism, the
by sordid or selfish interest, and strongly
marked with the genuine characteristics of true firmness, the generosity, the magnanimous sacrifices of
religion, sound benevolence, and liberal policy.
Entertaining the most ardent love for civil and such men, that conducted the colonies through a gloomy
religious liberty, he was among the first of that
glorious band of patriots whose exertions contest of seven years continuance, and gave them a rank
dashed and defeated the machination of British
tyranny, and gave United America freedom and among the independent nations of the earth.”
independent empire.” Colonel Innes
5 of 5 Charles Goodrich

15. and
Parents of Elizabeth Martiau Reade
Your 10th
to 12th “The Father of Yorktown, Va."
Great
Grand
Parents

Captain of the Militia, Virginia

Burgess, Yorke Shire Justice,

Military Engineer, Planter, and

Captain Nicolas Martiau Wine Maker

Birth: Apr. 2, 1591 Lady Jane Berkeley
Isle of 'lle de Re’, France (1591–1657)
Death: Apr. 16, 1657

Yorktown, Va. See:

“A French Huguenot, it is likely that he was forced into exile in England during a time of persecution of

Huguenots by the Catholics in France since his signature is found on a register in a Huguenot church.

Little is known of his youth except that he had learned to read by studying the Gospels and the Bible,

absorbed the doctrine of Calvin, and learned to speak English. On January 11, 1619, he was

naturalized English. He married an Englishwoman Jane Berkeley, widow of Sir Edward Berkeley. On

May 16, 1620, at age 29, left England on the Francis Bona Venture as the legal representative of the

fifth Earl of Huntington and arrived in Jamestown In August 1620 . There as a military engineer, he

built the fence defense system which allowed the city to be spared from the Colonies Indian massacre

of 1622. The success of this action earned him the title of "master engineer of fences". He appeared in

the first Virginia census of 1623 and became a member of the House of Burgesses, the oldest

continuous legislative body in the western hemisphere.”

The Martiau progenitor branch 1 of 3

15a.

“On October 8, 1630, the Virginia Council passed a decree granting 50 acres of land to every person who
would settle within a year or two on the York River in the Chiskiake (Yorktown) area. Captain Martiau
moved onto the York peninsula, settling at the present site of Yorktown. He had 600 acres confirmed to
him for moving to Chiskiake the first year, plus 700 more acres for paying for the adventure of other
headrights, in March 1639. This total of 1,300 acres had the chief commodity of tobacco. Years later, he
was granted letters-patent for 2,000 acres on the south side of the Potomac River (1654); he gave this
tract to his son-in-law, Colonel George Reade and his daughter Elizabeth, who had patent on it dated
March 1657. He would buy and sell other minor properties over the years”.
He was married to Jane Berkeley, widow of Lieutenant Edward Berkeley. In 1646, he remarried Isabel
(Isabella) Beech, widow of Robert Felgate and George Beech. He died on his property in 1657 on what
would become Yorktown, Virginia. His grandson donated 50 acres of land for the original site of Yorktown
in 1691. The town’s creation established Yorktown as the principal location for shipping and receiving
tobacco, and other goods via the port. Wharves, warehouses, and other business buildings were
established at the riverfront.

See:

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“In 1931, an 11 foot Vermont granite monument, with a commemorative bronze plaque was erected near

the site of home and graveyard on Ballard and Buckner Streets, in the village of Yorktown by the

Martiau-Washington Memorial Association, commemorating his accomplishments, and his illustrious

descendants like George Washington, Thomas Nelson, and Robert E Lee.” The monument was erected by

the Martiau-Washington Memorial Association Society of Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the National

(Federation of) Huguenot Societies and the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission.

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Willis Hill Cemetery, Stratford Hall
Fredericksburg Montross, Va.
Natl. Battlefield,
Lees
Fredericksburg, VA.
Willis’

Location Map Just In case
Richmond, Va.
y’all were
Area
wondering
Warner Hall
where we all Gloucester, Va.
lived J
Warners,
Lewis’

The Nelson House,
Grace Episcopal
Churchyard,
Yorktown, Va.
Martiaus,
Reades,
Nelsons

Greater Virginia Yeah, and you should come and Arlington House
Map see all the “IN Graving” around The Robert E. Lee
House Memorial,
mine!!... Arlington National

Y’all Cemetery
should Washington’s
come up to Mount Vernon
the house Mount Vernon,
for a visit!
Va.
Lee Chapel
Washington and Fredericksburg
Lee University
Lexington, Va. Yorktown,

Va.

So what good is knowing about all these
people?

1. Remember those on whose shoulders you stand, and be thankful to the Lord for what you have
received. Teach your children about them, and the heritage that we have received in this country.
Allow it to be a check to your pride and to augment your humility in a self venerating world.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits Ps:103: 1,2

2. Allow what good God has done through them, to inspire you and your children, to do what good you

can do through His grace in your own lives.

"For the promise (of His acceptance, blessing, and reward) is for you and your children and for all who
are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.“ Acts 2:39

3. Understand that you and your children are part of a bigger plan that God is carrying out, and allow

that knowledge to give context, security, direction, and vision to you and the lives of your children.

“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.”

Psalm 78:4

We are now nearing the four hundredth anniversary of Captain Nicolas Martiau’s coming to the American
Colony of Virginia in 1620, the first of all your American relatives from this branch of your family. That was
only 13 years after the founding of Jamestown the first permanent British Colony and the same year of
the founding of the Pilgrim’s Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. So, through it the history of our country
is detailed, not in mere data and endless facts, but in real people to whom you in some fashion, directly or
indirectly, are connected. Thus the history of our country becomes a little more “personal”. And again, if
we ask why was this exercise important, why should we care? There is at least one answer that as father
and grandfather has changed genealogy for me from simply being a curious and rather obsessive hobby,
to something with more personal realities. It is the simple fact that they, our Grand Parents, real living
relatives, would have cared about us, if somehow they had been able to look ahead in time to see and
learn about their grandchildren through several generations. I have little doubt that they would have
delighted in us from afar and marveled at what we have done. They would have said, “look those are our
grandkids”! I know I would, and knowing that someday some of our own may yet look back, research, and
“connect” with us, reminds me that we are less alone than we sometimes may feel, and part of a much
bigger story still waiting to be completed. I know I’ll still be cheering them on then, as I do for all of you
today.

“Let us raise a standard to which
the wise and honest can repair;
the rest is in the hands of God.”

“Adeste Fideles”

May God Bless,

Dad, Pops, Jonny