Anne (Gerrard) Washington (abt. 1622 - 1675)

Born about 1622 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Walter Broadhurst — married about 1640 (to 1659) in Province of Maryland

Wife of Henry Brett — married about 1659 (to 1669) in Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia

Wife of John Washington — married Sep 1669 in Virginia [uncertain]

Died 1675 at about age 53 in Stafford, Virginia

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Spelling Variations Gerard, Gerrard, Garard, Garrard

Biography

This profile is part of the Gerard Name Study.

Anne's born to Thomas Gerard and Susannah Snowe.^[1]

Anne married 1st to Walter Broadhurst by 1658, 2nd to Henry Brett 1658-1659, and 3rd to John Washington by 9/26/1670.^[2] Broadhurst listed in a request for land.^[3]

In the will of Walter Broadhurst, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1/26/1658-2/12/1658 his children listed as Gerard, Walter, and Elizabeth. Exec: Wife, Ann. If wife marries, Mr. Thomas Gerard, Mr. Nathaniel Pope, and Mr. Robert Slye are to be overseers of my children.^[4]Mr. Robert Slye was Anne's sister Susannah first husband. Mr. Thomas Gerard - either Anne's father or her brother.

Marriage (1)

Walter Broadhurst - Before 1648^[5]

Children

1. Gerard
2. Walter
3. Elizabeth

Marriage (2)

Henry Brett^[5]

1659

Children

1. Henry
2. William
3. Elizabeth

Marriage (3)

John Washington^[2][5]

26 Sep 1670

He also married Annes sister Frances. (10 May 1676 )^[2]

Research Notes

The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants, Immigrant Descendants of High Medieval Kings pg 305 lists Col. John Washington lists marriage #1Anne Pope, #2Mrs. Ann Gerard Broadhurst Brett, #3 Frances Gerard Speke Peyton Appleton (#2 & #3, who left no issues were daughters of Thomas Gerard of MD and Susannah Snowe)

The following is copy paste from another website. Not all info pertains to Anne but her father and sister. Moving to Research notes. Needs source as well.

Col. John Washington married three times: first, Anne Pope. previous to May 11, 1650, daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Pope; second, Anne Gerrard, widow of Walter Broadhurst, who died between Jan. 26 and Feb. 12, 1659; third, Frances Gerrard, widow of Col. Valentine Peyton; widow, also, of Capt. John Appleton, and of Col. Thomas Speke; d. in 1659.

The Anne Washington of Col. John Washington's will was not the Anne Washington, mother of his three children, Laurence, John and Anne, but was the dead Anne therein referred to. The live Anne Washington of the will was the Anne (widow of Walter Broadhurst, that in the interval since his death had married Mr. Henry Brett who also had died; whereupon she married Colonel John Washington). An old document in the diocesan registry of Litchfield, dated April 12, 1678, stated that Walter Broadhurst, her son, "was granted administration of the goods of Anne Washington, alias Broadhurst, late of Washington Parish in the County of Westmoreland, Va."

In Westmoreland County is recorded a marriage contract between Col. John Washington and Frances Appleton, widow of Col. John Appleton and born Frances Gerrard. This contract is dated May 10, 1676, so, of course, Mrs. Anne Washington, the second, must have died before that date.

Frances Gerrard, daughter of Dr. Thomas Gerrard and his first wife, Susanna, daughter of Justinian Snow, one of the founders of Maryland and Lord Baltimore's factor in the Indian traders, married, first, Col. Thomas Speke; he died in 1659. She married, second, Colonel Valentine Peyton and had Gerrard Peyton, who died s. p. She married, third, Captain John Appleton, who died between February 25 and April 12, 1676. On May 10, 1676, she entered into a fourth matrimonial engagement, this time with Col. John Washington.

Dr. Thomas Gerrard was for a long time Councillor in Maryland, but was finally banished for taking part in the insurrection of Isaias Fendall in 1659. Before this he had provided a refuge in Virginia having obtained, October 18, 1650, a patent for land and naming among the head rights his wife, Susanna Gerrard, and his children, Susanna, Temperance, Frances, Justinian, and John Gerrard. The same day, October 18, 1650, Walter Broadhurst patented land next to William Hardwick on the west side of "Poor Jack Creek." As Walter Broadhurst had a son "Gerrard," it might be that Anne, his wife, who afterwards married Col. John Washington, was a daughter of Col. Thomas Gerrard, as well as Washington's third wife, Frances.

Capt. John Appleton, b. 1640; d. 1676. A letter is extant from him to "his brother, Mr. Richard Colbourn, near Spittlefield's Gate, London," dated June 12, 1674. He married Frances Gerrard, widow of Thomas Speke and of Valentine Peyton. It is not believed that he left children. After his death his widow married, fourth, Col. John Washington.

Thomas Speke, b. 1603, d. 1659, patented in 1650, one thousand acres of land. He had a son, Thomas, and brother, John, who lived in Bath and Plymouth, England.

Sources

1. ↑ "History and Genealogical Notes”, William and Mary Quarterly, Series 1, XVIII (1908), pg. 226. L.G. Tyler
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants, Immigrant Descendants of High Medieval Kings pg 305
3. ↑ Description: 300 acres on the south side of Potomack River, bounded on the north west side with the head of Corawoman Creek. Source: Land Office Patents No. 6, 1666-1679 (pt.1 & 2 p.1-692), p. 107 (Reel 6).Image
4. ↑ Westmoreland County, Virginia wills
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} L.G.Tyler, "The Good Name and Fame of the Washingtons" Tyler's Quarterly magazine, IV (1922-1923), 322

• Maryland Genealogies, Vol. I Thomas Gerard and His Sons-In-Law
• Founders archives
• 1650-1652 Deed-Will Book Northumberland Co Va; Antient Press: Pg 47
• Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data: Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.
• Cavaliers and pioneers patent book No. 6; Pg 30
• Geni
• Rootsweb
• Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis,Th.D., edited by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., M.S.& William R. Beall Title: Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 - Fifth Edition Publication: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc; Location: Baltimore, Maryland; Date: Third printing, 2006; Repository: Name: Library of Claude P Perry II Page: Line 30A-16; Col. John Washington

Acknowledgements

• Cole Aubrey through the import of aubrey-2 (1).ged on Jul 3, 2014.
• Gerard-337
• Emily Wrocklage