,4 MEN WHO MADE AMERICA "
StE,—In the article Men Who Made America it is stated that "members of the Washington family " of Washington, Co. Durham, moved " to Westmorland in 1376." But there were members of the Wessington family (for that is the early form of the name) in Westmorland before that year,' since there is a grant of 1346 given at Wessington by Sir William de Wessington whereby he conveys the manor of Helton Flechan in West- morland to William Norton (see the' article by T. Pope, The Connoisseur, February, 1932). It may also be of interest to state that 'it has been local--Westmerian—knowledge for decades that the elder brother (half- brother really) of President George Washington was sent over from Vir- ginia by his father Augustine Washington to be "schooled " at the ancient grammar school of Appleby, Westmorland.—Yours faithfully,
i3 Treherne Roads Newcastle-upon-Tyne. - JOSEPH WALTON.
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