Historically, the name Washington came from Wessyngton, which in turn was the Norman French rendition of an earlier Middle English version of an Anglo-Saxon place name:
Exploring the genealogy and family history of the New Orleans Haynie family, pictured here in the mid-1960s. Our parents and grandparents grew up in Texas; our Southern roots originated in 17th century colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina - with a few Welsh ancestors settling first in Pennsylvania.
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Books cited in this blog
- 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South (1996)
- A History of Richmond County [N.C.] (1976)
- Abner Cook, Master Builder on the Texas Frontier (1992)
- Austin, A Historical Portrait (1997)
- Covington Cousins (1956)
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921)
- Online version of: The New Handbook of Texas [6-volume set] (1996)
- Reverend John Haynie: Ancestry, Life & Descendants (1963)
- Savage Frontier 1838-1839: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (2006)
- Smith of Abram's Plains (1988)
- Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1643-1776 (1981)
- The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999)
- The Booker T. Washington Papers; Volumes 1 and 2 (1972)
- The Gatlin Family in America (1968)
- The Reverend John Tillett Family History (1955)
- The Romance of Tulip Ridge (1966)
- The Walker Heritage (1956)
- Tulip Evermore (1985)
- Wilbur Fisk Tillett, Christian Educator (1949)
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