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This collection is arranged by provenance, subject titles and folder titles.
This collection is comprised of Washington family genealogy research conducted by Justin Glenn for his books, "The Washingtons: A Family History". The books are a comprehensive multi-volume work covering fifteen generations of the "Presidential Branch" of the Washingtons. This study includes more than 63,000 descendants of the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington.
The author, Justin Matthews Glenn, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and raised in Glendale and Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Stanford University (B.A., Classics, 1967; magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University (M.A., Classics, 1969; Ph.D., Classics, 1970). His career as a professor of Classics at the University of Georgia and Florida State University spanned thirty-five years, and he has published over seventy articles, notes, and reviews in his field. A distant cousin of George Washington, he has served as Registrar General of the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants since 2002.
[Name and date of item], Justin Glenn collection of Washington family genealogy, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.
This collection consists of 10 boxes containing research materials relating the the Washington family genealogy. Some of the materials are organized by a numbering system, which may be available in the index of the published volumes.
Book, The Washingtons: A Family History
Col. Wm & John Mac
Miss. Branch
Folder titles of JAW Outline revised, I-344, JAW 11244, 11245-11262, and 11333 Spotswood.
Folders of 1134 Ashton – Fitzhugh, 11336 (1-9), 11361- Lewis- Foote, JAW 11364- 11369, Lewis, 1136a – Howell Lewis, 11372-1137x, 11384, 11391 – 11393, 11511, Patton, Holt, 11513, 11541 and 11548.
Folders of 1211 and 12121 (some VA families), 112121 to 12124 – John Wright (1728/1730 – 1789) m. Ann Wilhams, 13312 Buckner 13314 Washington, 1341 1 – 157 , 13451 – 13446, Goodloe, and 13432 – 1343c-64.
Folders of Lawrence Washington 23211 and 23214, Lawrence Washington 23241-23252, Lawrence Washington 23272 – 73, 74, Lawrence Washington 23516, and Lawrence Washington 23723.
rolls #3-8
Internet ( mainly sites that are now defunct) – descendants of John Washington and his wife Anne Pope
DAR Grandfathers Papers R.A. Gray