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In the interesting chapter on the "Origin and Genealogy of the
Washington Family," which you give in the Appendix to your "Life of
Washington," it appears that Lawrence, the father of the emigrant,
died 13th December, and was buried at Brington, 15th December, 1616.
But the genealogical tables, which you followed, gave no indication
of the locality of this church. Had it appeared that it was the
parish church of the Spencer family in Northamptonshire, the
locality, which I believe has not been heretofore known in our
country, would have been precisely fixed.

In point of fact, the slab which covers Lawrence Washington is in
the chancel of the church, by the side of the monuments of the
Spencer family. These are all in admirable preservation, with
full-length effigies, busts, or other sculptural work, and exhibit
an interesting and connected series of sepulchral memorials from the
reign of Henry VIII. to the present time. Among them is a monument
of the early English sculptor, Nicholas Stone; another from
Nollekins from a design by Cipriani, and another by Flaxman, with
exquisitely beautiful personifications of Faith and Charity. Beneath
repose the successive representatives of this illustrious family,
which has added to its aristocratic claims by services to the state,
and also by the unique and world-famous library collected by one of
its members. In this companionship will be found the last English
ancestor of our Washington.

The other slab, covering Robert, the uncle of the emigrant, is in
one of the aisles of the nave, where it is scraped by the feet of
all who pass.

The parish of Brington is between seven and eight miles from the
town of Northampton, not far from the centre of England. It is
written in Domesday Book "Brinintone" and also "Brintone." It
contains about 2,210 acres, of which about 1,490 acres belong to
Earl Spencer, about 326 acres to the rector in right of the church,
and about 130 acres to other persons. The soil is in general a
dark-colored loam, with a small trace of clay towards the north.
Nearly four-fifths of the whole is pasture and feeding land.

In the village still stands the house said to have been occ