It says that he is connected through marriage to Hillary Clinton. We do not need the Holy Scriptures alone to prove the ancestry of humanity. Vernon in 1785, Lund Washington may have saved enough to purchase the 360-acre Hayfield plantation in Fairfax County from his cousin, or that was the plantation the General exchanged for another farm Lund had purchased from Thomas Hanson Marshall in 1779 (the year of his marriage), else General Washington gave it to Lund because he took no salary during the five years of the American Revolutionary War. It is the lack of any evidence at all, that George William Fairfax, despite his knowledge of it, had ever taken offense at his young friend's interest in his wife. and YOU are not part of it. So then who cares??? Our common ancestors are Col. William Ball (1573-1648) and his wife Alice Waltham (1607-1667). However, when a veteran with a large family attempted to visit Lund Washington in his final years, he refused to see him, having heard a report years earlier that his son John had been killed fighting Native Americans. The Custis family in America can trace its roots to the late seventeenth century, when the family split? Shortly after, Rugeley surrendered his entire force without a single shot being fired. How? I believe she was the only living child. In 1779, this Lund Washington married Elizabeth (Betsy) Foote, then 33 years old, whose 34-year-old sister Catherine had married his brother Lawrence five years earlier. mildreade reade was georges geat grandmother, she was my 2nd cousin 9x removed also ben franklins wife deborah reade was my 4th cousin 7x removed ben and george was cousins.. nelly custis 6th cousin 5x removed she married lawence lewis alson in my family line. So some of the population, the evil ones who want to kill Americans are descended from Cain. As the only surviving male heir, William Augustine inherited Wakefield the home where his well-known Uncle was born upon his mothers death in 1774. Between ten and eleven at night on December 14, 1799, George Washington passed away. George Washington Famous Kin (3647) George Washington, in subsequent years, visited Warner a number of times at Fairfield. Id love to see how it was determined that Obama is related to Washington. George Washington. George Gershwin, original name Jacob Gershvin, (born September 26, 1898, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.died July 11, 1937, Hollywood, California), one of the most significant and popular American composers of all time. Youre right, Steve. This 1898 newspaper article about Major Ebenezer Burgess Ball states that he had been declared by the lineage society Sons of the American Revolution to be the nearest living relative of Washington, and that he had a remarkable personal resemblance. The newspaper reports: At first sight his picture is nearly always taken for a likeness of General Washington. After he made his will on November 20, 1789, he died in 1791. George Washington, 1st President of the United States - Geni This Washington relative, Mrs. C. E. Buck of Texas, was a member of "Colonial Dames of the 17th Century" and "Daughters of the American Revolution." She claimed to be George Washington's third cousin, three times removed.