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George Washington
	Coat of arms of the Washington family
Country	American
Current region	Virginia, United States
Place of origin	England
Members	John Washington, Augustine and Mary

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The Washington immigrant ancestor and great-grandfather of President George Washington was John Washington, who was born in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, in 1631 arriving in the Colony of Virginia in 1657 after being shipwrecked.^[2]

George Washington's immediate ancestry entirely traces back to England, save for at least two lines. A paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Nicolas Martiau, was a Huguenot from Île de Ré, France becoming a naturalized Englishman, who arrived at Virginia aboard the Francis Bonaventure in 1620.^[3]

Furthermore, Washington's maternal great-grandmother, Mary Doodes, was baptized as "Maritje Meinerts" on December 14, 1645, at the Nieuwe Kerk of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland. In Virginia, she was referred to as "Mary Minor", the English equivalent of her Dutch first name and her patronym.^[4] Mary was the daughter of Maritje Gerrits and Meinert Doedes (Doodes), a sailor from Wieringen, who arrived in Nansemond County, Virginia, with his wife and children sometime before April 20, 1656. Meinert was naturalized by Acts of Assembly in 1673.^[5]

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This table sets out the ancestry of President George Washington for five generations, numbered according to the Ahnentafel genealogical numbering system. class="wikitable "

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^ Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Sir Iain; Pottinger, Don (1953). Simple Heraldry. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons. p. 32. ISBN 978-0171440140.
^ ^a ^b ^c Frank E. Grizzard (2002). George Washington: A Biographical Companion. ABC-CLIO. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-57607-082-6.
^ Merrow Egerton Sorley, ed. (1935). Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families. Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8063-0831-9.
^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134776951/maritje-montague
^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134777080/meinert-doedes

[1] Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Sir Iain; Pottinger, Don (1953). Simple Heraldry. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons. p. 32. ISBN 978-0171440140.

[google1-2] Frank E. Grizzard (2002). George Washington: A Biographical Companion. ABC-CLIO. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-57607-082-6.

[3] Merrow Egerton Sorley, ed. (1935). Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families. Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8063-0831-9.

[4] ttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134776951/maritje-montague

[5] ttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134777080/meinert-doedes

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 This table sets out the ancestry of President [[George Washington]] for five generations, numbered according to the [[Ahnentafel]] genealogical numbering system.
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v t e Washington family
First generation	Lawrence Washington (1602–1652)	Coat of arms of the Washington family
Second generation	John Washington
Third generation	Lawrence Washington (1659–1698)
Fourth generation	Augustine Washington Bailey Washington
Fifth generation	Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) Augustine Washington Jr. George Washington Betty Washington Lewis Samuel Washington John Augustine Washington Charles Washington Henry Washington William Washington Bailey Washington Jr. Lund Washington
Sixth generation	William Augustine Washington Bushrod Washington George Steptoe Washington Lawrence Augustine Washington George William Washington
Seventh generation	John Thornton Augustine Washington George Corbin Washington Bushrod C. Washington Peter Grayson Washington
Eighth generation	Lawrence Berry Washington Lewis Washington Benjamin Franklin Washington William D. Washington Eugenia Washington
Tenth generation	W. Selden Washington
Washington family residences Abingdon Arlington House Beall-Air Blakeley Cedar Lawn Claymont Court Fairfield Ferry Farm George Washington Birthplace National Monument Happy Retreat Harewood Kenmore Mary Washington House Mount Vernon Richwood Hall Ridgedale Rising Sun Tavern River Farm Sulgrave Washington Old Hall

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