You're right, there is no direct descendant from George Washington, only the children Martha had from her previous marriage that George adopted.

For the naysayer 'columnist'.

Jack and Nelly would make their home at Abingdon Plantation and would give the Washingtons seven grandchildren, four of whom would survive, over the next seven years.

http://www.mountvernon.org/visit...ex.cfm/pid/685/

Check here, under Martha:
http://www.mountvernon.org

In 1797 the Washingtons said farewell to public life and returned to their beloved Mount Vernon, to live surrounded by kinfolk, friends, and a constant stream of guests eager to pay their respects to the celebrated couple. Martha's daughter Patsy had died, her son Jack at 26, but Jack's children figured in the household.

(Patsy died at seventeen and Jack had married early and died of typhus while serving at Yorktown at 26. Two of his four children were taken to Mount Vernon to be raised.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/histor...ladies/ mw1.html

Interesting note: Jack's descendant Mary Ann Randolph Custis married Robert. E. Lee. During the war, their home was seized and turned into Arlington Cemetery (later the court turned it back over to their descendant who brought suit of illegal seizure, they sold it to the government, that in itself is an interesting story, Gen. Meigs was a character)... the main building there is the Lee-Custis Mansion.

I guess Meigs got his way, he's buried at Arlington and they were buried at now Washington and Lee University.

http:// www.arlingtoncemetery.org...gton_house.html

This is why history in education is important. With the state of our education in the US, how could I expect anyone to know it?

I'm hoping he knew... but tried to slant it. Sad.
Aliveritas | 12.26.06 - 11:53 am | #