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For those people who would like to know more about that flag this is the Washington family heraldic crest over the door at Sulgrave Manor in England. It's from a former Washington who fought with Henry 111 in the Battle of Crecy 1346 and won three spurs during two engagements in that battle. (Winning Spurs back then was then like winning medals for bravery) http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c116/1scouse/Sulgrave%20Manor/Crest.jpg
In 1539 a man known as Lawrence Washington bought land from King Henry V111. Henry had a bit of spare land at this time seeing he'd just kicked the Catholic Church out of England and acquired all of their considerable holdings. Lawrence then had Sulgrave Manor Built. http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c116/1scouse/Sulgrave%20Manor/Front.jpg
During the English Civil War (1645) another Lawrence Washington took the Royalist side and lost a lot of his holdings and eventually died in poverty. His son John however moved to Virginia in the colonies and married well there and ended up with a wedding present of a 700-acre estate known as Mattox Creek where his son Lawrence was born. Two generations later on the 22nd February 1732 a boy named George was born.........................
