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Re: Washington's Earliest Ancestor
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Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:22:25 -0400
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Sulgrave Manor, the Washington family seat in England about 20 miles north
of Oxford, is a substantial gentry house, worth a visit in person or on
line:
 http://www.sulgravemanor.org.uk/index.htm



-- 
Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>

 On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> . . . . This is what I wrote about the Washington family's economic status
> in Virginia:
>
> "George was a fourth-generation American whose family had built up a
> middling plantation enterprise on the Northern Neck with modest
> slaveholdings." (p. 26.)
>

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