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j >r w. <3. CHAPA1. & ( HE real name of the first president of the United States was not Washington. His bap 11 s m a 1 name was George, and he was born February 22 in the year 1732. The old colony of Virginia was Is birthplace, but the true name of his male ancestors was not Wash ington. This may seem a sweeping statement in the light of generally ac cepted history, but careful research has established beyond doubt that the ancient founder of the family from . which came the Father of our Country waa named William De Hertburn. Tha key to this apparent paradox lies in the fact that, in common with many noblemen and monarchs of Europe, the first president possessed an estate name and a real, or family name, the latter being known as the patronymic, or paternal nama rrk~ TJ7oa>\]n crtnna wflTfl Of I iit7 Uidl VI ao*uu&w4? French, and not English, origin, and were numbered among the powerful knights of the northern portion of France. When the Duke of Normandy conceived the ambition of becoming King of England he called to his aid , the Catholics of France, and among those who responded to his appeal was an ancestor of George Washington. The duke gathered his soldiers about him and announced that by right and promise he deserved and intended to be the new King of England. His spir ited address had the desired effect and the knights and their vassals thronged to the standard until there was soon gathered under the leader ship of William, Duke of Normandy, the greatest army France had ever mustered, ready for the field and' thirsting for the glories of conquest. Among the many banners thrown to the breeze appeared the shield of the multi-great-grandfather of our own George Washington. His name was William ae Hertburn. The 60,000 fol lowers of the duke set sail in 3,000 vessels of war for the English coast and landed without oposition, because of the English King Harold's conflict with (he Norwegians in another part of hi8 Invaded domains. On October 14, 1066, the rival armies met, and on field of Hastings took place one of the most terrific battles in the history Washington's Crested Carria> of England. William of Normandy was the victor, and King Harold, with tens of thousands of his English, was among the slain. The victorious French marched to London, and on Christmas day they proclaimed their dashing leader "William I, Conqueror and King of England." King William, like all his French knights, loved the French ideals of government, church and home, and in fused into the old English national and domestic life all the customs of his native land. Even the English language, which William never could learn, was gradually set aside, and among the loyal French knights who assisted the Conqueror in enforcing bl$ reforms was the distant kin of George Washington. This early an cestor of our first president was num bered among the Intimates of the King, and was one of the leaders of the French Conquest. In the past, American historians, possibly because of the strong influence upon literature exercised by England, placed the Washington ancestry as beginning in that country; but careful Investigation bears out the statement^ that the Washlngtons were of definite and di rect French origin. They were French both in sentiment and training, and th? original name was De Hertburn. Naturally the question arises, why was the name changed, and what in duced these faithful French subjects of William of Normandy to assume an o rnu? JSiUgllSll uognuuieu ; i lie tAijmiiamni is simple enough. William the Con queror was a careful aDd far-seeing man. He realized that his usurpation of the English throne was a very rad ical departure in a governmental ex periment, to say the least; and he was anxious to mould the people, whom he had made his vassals by dint of the strong hand, into as close dupli cates of the French as possible. In other words, he strove to implant the French ideals into the English char acter as deeply as circumstances per mitted. The complicated heraldic rec ords found in the pages of the famous "Doomsday Book" is undoubtedly the best evidence that the King wished to make his radical campaign of perm anent record, and hence a great num ber of men of education and ability were occupied in diligently surveying and noting all the laud and water con ditions of England. They also in these visitations made lengthy entries as to the original English estate owners as C _ 1 _1 D? I ooieiy Dy i New York Police Hope to Convict Gambler Who Always Kept His Face Hidden. The New York police force is wlll .ng to admit that it can go M. Bertil Ion one better on his finger print identification system, which, by the T?-ay. was invented by the Chinese a few thousand years before M. Bertil lon became a terror to the French well as an accurate record of the biographical and her aldic character of the new or French proprietors. And in this last seemingly un necessary entry appears the statement that the brave, ever reliable Knight, Sir William De Hertburn, for military service to Will iam I, be granted with feu dal rights and power the ex tensive estate known as Weasyngton, and henceforth eaid Sir Knight shall be known as Sir William de Wessyington; but he shall still be a vassal of the bish op and his heraldic denom ination shall continue to be. Arms: Argent, two bars gules (red); in chief, three mullets of the second. Crest: A raven with wings endorsed proper, issuing out of a du cal coronet or (gold)." As a further demonstra tion of the importance of the De Hertburns, or "Wessyng tons," history furnishes the information that the estate in question was under the command of the Bishop of Durham, and situated In a lrw^Q lltv omnQnH t o tha of tack of the Scota of northern ^ England. On this border there was constant warfare, and the king naturally select ed the bravest and most warlike of his adherents to in* hold lands in the disputed Vs district For nine years this \ country between Durham . and York was laid waste, ^ and for ten years it was practically a desert, no man having the courage to at tempt cultivation of the blasted fields or Inhabit the ruined towns. One hundred thousand people died in this debatable strip of land, and there, where active hostili ties ever reigned, the De Hertburns, or Wessyngtons, were stationed. This rec ord of the great family is absolutely authentic in every detail, having been proved by minute research and per sonal visits to the locality where its members were lords of the soil?a task which embraced fifteen years of heraldic investiga tion. Later the estate known as Wessyngton was spelled and en tered officially, as Wes sinjtfon. the proprietors assuming the same name. Then It was re corded as Washington, and a natural change of the owner's name in accordance with that of his land followed. The proprietors became known as William, John, Lawrence, Rob ert and Nicholas De Washington. Finally the heraldic shields and French prefix of "De" was drop per, and the modern spelling of W-a-a-h-i-n-g-t-o-n prevailed. The Washingtons were very prom inent in the military as well as the civic phases of English life. In the days of Henry VIII, when that mon arch was in conflict with the pope of Rome. Lawrence Washington sided ge with the king, and the latter confiscat ed the monasteries, convents and churches of the Roman Catholic church, giving to this Washington the Sulgrave estate, where for over a cen tury the Washington family ruled su preme. A decline in their fortunes then appears to have taken place, for In 1620, the year the Pil grims set sail for Amer ica, the Washingtons were practically driven from the Sulgrave estate to take up residence at Brighton with minor ma nors and holdings. The Iosb of the hundreds of acres of rich meadows and harvest fields was in a measure counter acted by the marriage of a Sir William Washing ton to a sister of George Villiars, Duke of Buck ingham. This union brought about new al liances and affiliations which made Washing tons possible in Amer ica, and ultimately led to the rearing of George Washington to be the military leader of the colonies and eventually our first chief executive. This marriage brought the Washington family into direct domestic so cial and court relation ship with the prominent and powerful favorite of the then reigning mon arch, ana political cir cumstance destined the Washingtons to espouse the cause of the king, rather than the idol of the Commons?Oliver Crom IV Bp Graves of wen. me wasmngtous periormeu heroic services for the king, but when Cromwell proved victorious and seized the reins of govern ment. they found England to be no longer a safe dwelling place. Prison sentences, exile and death was "inger Prints rogues. On the strength of the finger print they have arrested a man they know was guilty of a crime, but whose face no person concerned had seen. There was a swell gambling house up town in which the proprietor was more effectually hidden than "the man in the iron mask." Te remained in a little room, which he entered from an other bouse. No one ever saw him; not even his employes. All business S?\ A1 Washington's True Coat-of-Arms. the unhappy lot of the royalists, or King's Cavaliers; and rather than bow to one whom they looked upon as a usurper, many of the Washingtons fled to foreign lands. John and Law rence, brothers, came to Virginia, the former being the grandfather of George Washington, the first presi dent of the United States. Among the distinguished Washing tons who escaped persecution by flight from England was one whose identity genealogists long sought vainly to verify?the brother of General George Washington's great grandfather. This Washington's name was James, and he fled to Rotterdam, Holland, where in 1650 he wedded Clara Vander Lan en, daughter of the mayor of the port. From this union was derived the pres ent Dutch and German Washipgtons ? Rtiirdv folk who adanted themselves to these governments under which they have held and are at present holding official positions of high sta tion. One of these German Washing tons offered his services in a military capacity to the United States consul at Frankfort-on-Main in 1862. He ex pressed himself as anxious to enlist In the Union army, and presented the consul with a verified genealogical chart prepared from the records of the Dutch government. This gentle man was Baron de Washington. The statement has been certified by Will iam W. Murphy, consul at that point, and attested by the Honorable Fred erick Kapp, of New York City, who was visiting in Germany and wrote a letter in which the circumstances were fully described. The original correspondence and data in my possession relating to the Dutch and German Washingtons prove the baron to have been a direct lineal i Washington's Ancestors at Sulgrave, E descendant of the James Washington who landed In Holland In 1650. He married a Bavarian lady and held a certificate of honorable discharge showing that he had been a lieutenant In the Bavarian array. To obtain a commission as officer in the Federal army was his wish, but because of the inability of our consul to assure him t was transacted through a little wicket, j through which his voice might be ! heard, but his face could never be ! seen. When a player wanted to buy | cards or chips he passed his money through the wicket and got his cards and chips?but never saw the proprie tor. When he wanted to "cash in" he | passed his chips through the wicket j and got his money?but never saw the j : proprietor. The nimble wits of the police de- j partment wanted to "pinch" that man, j but they couldn't "get the goods on | WVRJE> clT? of this honor, and possibly because he deemed that suf ficient respect had not been shown to one of such noted ancestry, he did not emi grate to thfe United States. However, before the inter view w&s closed, he deposit ed with the American consul a certified genealogical chart on which the following ap pears: "Baron de Washington Is a direct descendant of the ancient and honorable Wash ington family of England, the earliest emigrant to Holland being James Washington, one of the four brothers of Stuart sympathizers (Charles I). James came to Holland in 1650, ' his two brothers emigrated to Vir ginia, and the third brother remained in England, where he was serving as a divine." This remarkable bit of genealogical history gives the earliest and most authentic record of the Dutch and Ger man Washingtons, of which there are many and of whom the church records abound in entries of marriages, births and deaths. Further investi gation brings to light the fact that this earliest Dutch emigrant, James, was mar ried in the English church of ^Rotterdam, all of which tends to corroborate that be ^ was of English training. ^y iBaron de Washington was ' born in 1833, and his brother Max married the Duchess of Oldenburg and in this way became connected with one of the oldest sovereign fam ilies of Europe. The House of Oldenburg )s the prime branch of the Holstein-Gottorp stock, V which has given emperors to Russia and Kings to Denmark, and is prom inently related to the present King of England, George V. And Jacob Washington wap first lieutenant of the Dutch navy in 1845, this branch being related to the wealthy banking firm, Cornelius ,L. Keurenaur of The Hague. Upwards of seventy-five \Vashingtons are numbered among the inhabitants of Hol land and Bavaria. Hence the Washingtons, in the farthest genealogical tracings, hall from France. We next find them in England and tben In Holland and Bavaria. Regarding the Washington Ian coat-of-arms some odd dis coveries have also come to light. Quite contrary to our American belief the Washing ton shield does not contain "stars and stripes," notwith standing that more than a thousand books and as many more published articles so pro claim it. The facts are that the Washington shield con tains "bars and mullets (spurs of the Knight's boots". The earliest reference which I have been able to find which announces the Washington shield blazoned with stars and strines. relates to a public banquet at Baltimore, Maryland, In 1851, where the Ideas of an English poet?Martin Tupper by name?were voiced, proclaiming that the Amer ican flag, with Its heraldic notions, was borrowed from the Washington shield, which possessed stars and stripes. Ever since this banquet American authors and orators have, without further investigation, accept ed the statement as cor | rect. The English poet was misled by his fervid fancy, for the Heralds' College at London, the highest authority on British heraldry, writes as follows: "A Washing ton shield with stars "and stripes (pales) has never been of record." It Is altogether probable < that Tupper, as well as others, was deceived by the shape of the "mullets." These spurs, as worn by the knights of old, were round In form, resembling mod ern cog-wheels some what, and their bristling points possibly suggest ed the "stars" of which Tupper spoke. Hundreds of writers have also announced that the crest on Gen eral George Washing ton's coast-of-arms is an eagle, and that this fam ily emblem was the foun dation of the suggestion that the eagle be the em blem of the American re public. While the crest may appear like an eagle, the facts are that the heraldic grant of arms to this Washing ton branch present a ra ven issuing from a golden ducal crown, the crest of the family. Furth ermore, Washington himself clearly shows by correspondence with the Herald's office at London that it was not an eagle, and the letter is dated ten years after the eagle had become the emblem of the republic (June 20, 1782). His letter was sent from Phll ngland. him." Finally, however, Detective Charles Steinert gained entrance to the place, pushed his money through the wicket and secured a lot of chips and cards. He put them in his pocket and took them to police headquarters. From them he took Innumerable "fin ger prints," left by the unsuspecting gambling house keeper. These he compared with the finger prints in the rogue's gallery. That evening he arrested a man on the streets and charged him with con ducting a gambling house. And the adelphia May 2, 1792, the third year of his presidency, and the package was sealed with the Washington fam ily arms aB is indicated in a letter which reads: "The arms enclosed in your letter are the same that are held by the family here; though I have also seen, and have used, as you may perceive by the seal to this packet, a flying griffin for the crest." The Washington crest, "a raven it sulDg ff-om a ducai coronet, guiu, w?o evidently given becauBe of the sports manship of the early English Wash ington. In fact the crow, falcon and hawk have been for more than four hundred years the emblem of sport. The pnstime of hawking was engaged In only by the wealthy and the Wash ington were noted for their love of hunting and sporting. Benson J. Lossing lent some color to the fore going conclusion when he wrote of the English Washingtons: "For more thau two hundred years the De Weesyngtons, or Washingtons, were conspiring after their kind (rob ber knights) fighting, hawking, ca rousing and gaming." This grant of the raven was in 1500, at about the same time that hawking was at its height as a sport, for at about the same period we find that in Spain the son of Columbus atempt ed to prove that bis father was of aristocratic and also of heraldic fam ily In that "he was of a people who kept their own hawks." This alone, in those days, stamped the man as a falconer, as only people of high social standing were permitted by license to engage In that enjoyment; hence a raven, a falcon, a crow or a hawk on the shield or crest indicated promi nence. This sporty and hunting dis position of the Washingtons was dis tinctly manifested in the Washingtons of Virginia, of which our first presi dent also gave liberal expression. There are five distinct Washington shields, but In the heraldic records they are pronouncea ui iuw &amo origin, as follows: A silver (argent) shield upon which are two red (gules) bars; in the top (chief) three red mullets (spurs of knights' boots). A red (gules) shield with a single Ancient Washington Shield. white (silver) bar charged with three mullets. A red shield with a white bar upon which are three cin;(piefollles, also red. ~ A red shield with two bars white, in chief three martlets. A shield of four bars, white and red, three mullets. A shield in green, a lion rampant in white, within a border gobonated white and blue. These constituted the heraldic arms of all Washington people as recorded in the English College of Heralds. Washington was fond of genealogi cal investigations, and in the College of Heralds can be seen a score or more of pages he wrote at various times In his eager search after family arms and crests. He was proud of hit heraldic ancestors, and this family estimate is well expressed in the fre quency with which he blazoned the Washington shields upon his choice tokens and valuables. Many such Instances may be noted In his heraldic watch charms, his sev eral personal seals; the doors of his tVifl nnrrolnin nf hid Hlrnar set; the silver ware of hie liquor serv ice; the fireplace and the mirrors; the picture frames and his library walls; his bookplate and bis saddle, and practically everything upon which a family signature or shield might be engraved, painted or printed. The illness of Sir Isaac Heard, the head of the English department of heraldry, closed the correspondence relating to Washington's eager at tempt to prepare a Washington gen ealogy and origin and evolution of the family coat-of-arms.. This interesting correspondence has never yet been scripturally reproduced, and it is to be regretted that a continuance of the investigation was disturbed by Illness, since many disputed biographical problems would doubtless have been solved. The man who Is doing good work is writing his name on the memory of the world. Stone monuments are only seen by a very few, no odds how high they may be built. Where all men are not allowed a hand in making ths laws that govern them, they are slaves. They must bow to the dictates of other men and have no redress. queer part of !t all Is that the police are sure they will convict him. though no person can be found who ever actu ally "saw" the man in the gambling house. His finger prints, however, are deadly evidence against him. Misconstrued. Shopman?The fresh herrings are i v<=ry nice this morning, m m. Lady?Er?have they rce.s? 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