return to update s Who was George Washington? by Miles Mathis First published October 11, 2016 As usual, this is just my opinion, arrived at by personal research. I am adding a link to Josh's recent paper on Washington and the Spencers, which ties into this one. That is where the second picture above comes from. That is a drawing by Joseph Wright, done from life. He lived until 1797, so he was a contemporary of Washington. As you take that link and learn what you will learn, remember that Josh is Jewish and living in Israel. It is not beside the point here, as you will see. Let's go straight to the genealogy on this one. George's maternal grandmother is given as Mary Montague, but the line stops there. This is a huge red flag, almost as big as the red flags around Lenin's genealogy. Washington was from wealthy and prominent Virginia familes, so the idea we wouldn't know who his great grandparents were in his mother's line is preposterous. Do you really think George's mother didn't know who her own grandmother was? As you will see below, Martha Washington's genealogy goes back to the time of Joan of Arc (1400s). So how could George's stop at this grandmother? Also preposterous is the misdirection surrounding this Mary Montague. At Geni, her dates are 1665-1743, born in Christchurch, VA. Her death is given as April 12. Her husband is given as Col. Joseph Ball and her daughter is Mary Washington. No ancestors are given. At Wikipedia, she is not listed at all. Her place is a blank. But at WikiTree, although she has exactly the same dates and place of birth as at Geni, she is given as the wife of William Johnson and Thomas Payne. There she is the mother of Joseph Ball, Elisabeth Johnson, Francis Payne, Thomas Payne, and Philemon Payne. But how can she be the mother of Joseph Ball if she never married anyone named Ball? Beyond that, the lines at Wikitree are poorly scrubbed. On the page for Mary Montague, we are told Peter Montague, Sr.'s wife is unknown, but if we click on him, we find the wife name is known— Cicely Parker. We even know her previous husband, Thomas Bailey, Jr. This is three generations before Mary Montague. She was also apparently married to a Farrar and a Jordan, unless those were middle names. Let's look at Joseph Ball, to see if we can shed any light on this mystery. He was supposed to be the son of Col. William Ball, and the father by Mary Bennett of Joseph Ball, Hannah, Esther, Elisabeth, and Anne. By his second wife Mary Johnson he was the father of Mary Ball, who became Mary Washington. So it looks to me like Mary Montague, although a real person, was moved up a generation so that they could jettison Mary Bennett from the genealogy at most prominent sites. Even the link above (which claims to be following Genealogy.com) tries to make you think it wasn't Montague but Johnson who was the mother of Mary Washington. This puts an even bigger red flag by Mary Bennett, and makes us wonder why they are scrubbing her. Well, since we have seen the Bennetts in recent papers, we already know. Thomas Pynchon's mother was a Bennett, and we found that she was also very well scrubbed. I suggested she was descended from the English peerage, and I suggest the same thing with George Washington. It is even more important with Washington, because they don't want to admit he was from English nobility. That would be too big a clue. Especially when we discover which lines of nobility. I am also reminded that there are many Bennetts now who admit they are Jewish. See Naftali Bennett, who has led the far-right Jewish Hom Party in Israel since 2012. Also Michael Bennet, Senator from Colorado, whose mother is Jewish. We are told his father isn't, but that may be more misdirection. His mother is a Benedict, which is curious seeing that Bennett and Benedict come from the same family and are just variant spellings.* His paternal grandmother is scrubbed. And then there is Tony Bennett, who is sold as Italian, of course, but who has a Jewish daughter. So let's pin down this Mary Bennett. Since Mary Washington was born in 1708, we can ditch the birthdate of 1665 for Mary Bennett. It is very doubtful she was 43 when she gave birth to Mary. In fact, the link above gives her date of death as 1720, different from Mary Montague. We are told she was born in West Chester, England, no date. That helps, because Chester is in Cheshire. We also drop a “t” from her name, making her Mary Bennet. We assume she was born about 1670. So who could she be related to in Chester, England? The very first possibility that comes up in a search at Wikipedia is Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington. But since it appears he was from Middlesex, we are fooled and move on. His brother John, 1st Earl Ossulston, has links to nearby York through his first wife Elisabeth, widow of the Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire. His second wife Bridget Howe had links to Nottinghamshire, which is also near Cheshire. However, this is also a stretch, so we look for better. Henry Bennet's daughter Isabella was married at the age of 4 to Henry FitzRoy, later 1st Duke of Grafton. Aha! Grafton is in Cheshire. In fact, it is just five miles south of Chester. This Henry Fitzroy was illegitimate son of King Charles II, his mother being Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine. So our links are all the way to the top here. Of course, Mary Bennet can't be the daughter of Isabella—since the dates are wrong—but she may be the sister. When was Henry Bennet born? We are told 1618, which at first seems too old to be the father of Mary Bennet. However, he didn't marry until 1667. He married Elisabeth Nassau- Beverweert, b. December 28, 1633. So our Mary Bennet could have been her daughter. Isabella was born around 1668, so this is the perfect place to fit in Mary Bennet. As indication we have found the missing key, we find Elisabeth of Nassau was Dutch. Notice the Beverweert, which is Dutch. Elisabeth's grandfather was the Prince of Orange. Remember, just a few years later a Prince of Orange would become the King of England, William III. So, again, the links go all the way up. But why is this indication we have found the right line for George Washington? Because if we go back to Washington's genealogy, we find Dutch ancestors at this very same place. Mary Montague's mother is given as Maritje Meijnderts [Minor], the daughter of Meijndert Doedes and Marritje Gerrits. What does this tell us? Only that Doedes and Gerrits are not surnames. Neither is Meijnderts, which just means “minor”. So Washington's genealogy is being scrubbed again. The only thing that may help us is Marritje Gerrits, who in a search happens to be the mother of Gerrit Jansz de Heer(e), a famous Dutch East India merchant in those years (around 1690). He was governor of Ceylon. He married the daughter of Abraham van Riebeeck, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709-1713. His father was Jan van Riebeeck, also of the East India Company and founder of Cape Town. Abraham's daughter was Elisabeth van Riebeeck, who married Dirk de Haas. His first wife was Aletta Zegermans, formerly Aletta Nobel. She was an ancestor of the Nobels of the Nobel Prize. Gerrit de Heere married, but we aren't told who his children were. But we do find Tromps in the line of de Heere. That may interest some of you. Maybe Drumph is a deadend, and Donald Trump was really a Tromp, related to George Washington in this way. De Heere's wife Johanna was later married to Jan van Hoorn, who was also Governor of the East Indies, and to Cornelis van Waveren, Governor of the West India Company. Van Waveren was also the Commissioner of the Bank of Amsterdam, and was one of the wealthiest men in Holland. This East India Company clue is what links us to the Princes of Orange, since, remember, it was the bankers and other rich guys—mostly Jewish—who funded the Princes. But it looks like Washington was related to both the Princes and the bankers. The two lines apparently married and then seeded America. But we have a second link to the Bennets in George Washington's line. It is a bit hidden, but you can find it at Geni. Just go to the Atherold line and then follow it to the page for Thomas Atherold III. There, you find he was the half-brother of Alice Beard. She was the daughter of Mary Hannah Vessey. Alice married Thomas Bennett, Jr. of Somerset. His brother was Governor of Virginia. His grandmother is given as Florence Cromlan, but my guess is that has been changed from Cromwell. If you search on the name Cromlan, you get nothing but misdirection. For instance, you are taken to this page at Geni for Richard Thomson, husband of Florence Cromlan. Notice the manager of the page is given as Erica “the Disconnectrix” Howton. Did you get it? She is disconnecting by scrubbing links.