{"id":473,"date":"2009-10-11T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T22:25:38","slug":"wessyngton-plantation-named-in-honor-of-washingtons-ancestral-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/wessyngton-plantation-named-in-honor-of-washingtons-ancestral-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Wessyngton Plantation Named in Honor of Washingtons&#8217; Ancestral Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_469\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-33-washington-family-crest.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-469\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-469\" title=\"Washington Family Crest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-33-washington-family-crest-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Family Crest\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-33-washington-family-crest-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-33-washington-family-crest-709x1024.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-33-washington-family-crest.jpg 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Family Crest<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">The Washingtons trace their ancestry back to William de Hertburn in twelfth-century England where their family owned a manor estate called Wessyngton\u2500the Norman spelling of Washington.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>William de Hertburn changed his name to William de Wessyngton.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The first Washington to come to America in Joseph Washington\u2019s line was John Washington, who immigrated to Surry County, Virginia, in 1658.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>One of John\u2019s cousins also named John immigrated to Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1656.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This John Washington was the great-grandfather of President George Washington.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Joseph Washington came to Robertson County, Tennessee in 1796 and established Wessyngton Plantation, which he named in honor of his ancestral home.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washingtons trace their ancestry back to William de Hertburn in twelfth-century England where their family owned a manor estate called Wessyngton\u2500the Norman spelling of Washington.\u00a0 William de Hertburn changed his name to William de Wessyngton.\u00a0 The first Washington to come to America in Joseph Washington\u2019s line was John Washington, who immigrated to Surry County, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,18,20,22,1],"tags":[277,278,276,283,281,112,279,282,280,274,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}