Excerpt from Washington, Shakespeare and St. George Probably there is no subject on which the leading encyclo pedias are more at fault than in regard to the origin of the family of which George Washington was the most illustrious member. The British attempts to connect it with two different counties in England (incorrectly), and then gives it up as if in despair; while the American dismisses it in short order as if it were not worthy of investigation. Both admit that the family was of English origin, however; and there is ...
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Excerpt from Washington, Shakespeare and St. George Probably there is no subject on which the leading encyclo pedias are more at fault than in regard to the origin of the family of which George Washington was the most illustrious member. The British attempts to connect it with two different counties in England (incorrectly), and then gives it up as if in despair; while the American dismisses it in short order as if it were not worthy of investigation. Both admit that the family was of English origin, however; and there is no room for doubt in regard to the precise spot in England where the ancestors of the Father of His Coun try lived and died. The topic is naturally one of great in terest, all the more so as the places occupied by the Washing ton family in the old country are near the spot where Shake Speare was born and where his remains are buried. There are two points that beyond dispute were occupied by members of the Washington family. They may be described as situated at the extremities of a curved line less than thirty-five miles long, near the middle of which Stratford is situated. The shorter section of about fourteen miles lies in the valley of the Warwickshire Avon, the river that has been immortalized by association with the great English bard. There are sev eral rivers in England, each of which is named Avon, a fact which occasions no surprise to those who know that the word was originally applied with the meaning The Water, as Minne was by the Dacotah Indians in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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