This genealogy is a study in the old world as well as the new.
Thomas Welles, Whitney, William the Conqueror, Winslow, and Wyne..
Other Families addressed in this volume include: Aquitaine, Angouleme, Anjoy, Baskerville, Beauchamp, Bray, Bulkeley, Capet, Castille, Cheney, James Chilton, Francis Cooke, Courtenay, Rixford, De Vere, Farleigh-Hungerford, Devereux, Douglas, Drake, Eaton, Ferrers, Fitz-Alan, Flanders, Graves, Greene, Gregory, Hainault, Heydon, Johnson, William Latham, Lawrence (John and Isaac), Lisle, Marshall, Milbourne, Moore, Mowbray, Phelps, Port, Province, Rogers, Russell, Seymour, De Spineto, Smith and Georges, Sir Henry Smith, Stanley, Throckmorton, Tailefer, Vermandois, Warren, Washburn, Washington, Winnington (Wynnington), Gov.
Nathaniel Greene, who ranked next in military fame to George Washington.
It also contains the ancestry of Gen.
George Washington, the first President of the United States, traced back 1,000 years to the Earl of Orkney Isles, the founder of the Washington family.
The book also includes the ancestry of Gen.
Those with ancestry to the Earls of Warren have been connected up to the Royal families.
She has also included several Mayflower lines connected to all members of the Vermont Society of Mayflower Descendants, who are direct descendants of these lines.
Rixford, a noted genealogist and author of several works, including Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service, has traced from Cerdic, first of the West Saxon Kings, 495, through Alfred the Great, 849, Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, King Henry I, II and III, King Edward I, II and III, also many other Royal lines through Charlemagne, Louis I, Earls of Warren, Dukes of Normandy, Royal House of Portugal, House of Capet, Counts of Anjou, Kings of Jerusalem, and many other Royal Families too numerous to name.
Mrs.
Many family records never printed before have been used.
The author depended on printed records, and when authorities differed, a conclusion was reached by critical comparison and the weighing of evidence.
Extensive references have been given, countless books have been consulted, nearly all procured from New England Historical and Genealogical Society, and to Colonial Families, compiled by the New York Historical Society.
This genealogy is a study in the old world as well as the new
