This is the ninth volume of a comprehensive history that traces the
"Presidential Line" of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the
immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657,
married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George
Washington. It contained the record of their descendants for a total of
seven generations. Subsequent volumes two through eight continued this
family history for an additional eight generations, highlighting most
notable members (volume two) and tracing lines of descent from the
royalty and nobility of England and continental Europe (volume three).
Volume nine collects over 8,500 descendants of the recently discovered
line of William Wright (died in Franklin Co., Va., ca. 1809). It also
provides briefer accounts of five other early Wright families of
Virginia that have often been mentioned by researchers as close kinsmen
of George Washington, including: William Wright (died in Fauquier Co.,
Va., ca. 1805), Frances Wright and her husband Nimrod Ashby, and William
Wright (died in Greensville Co., Va., by 1827). A cumulative index will
complete the series as volume ten.