I hope I’m not posting too much.
I saw something here the other day, and wanted to comment but hadn’t introduced myself yet.
Now I can’t find it.
Basically the post or discussion was about President George Washington likely liking Native People.
I did a deep dive years ago about early founding figures, and whatnot. It is a fact that George Washington’s Secretary was John Stagg Jr, who was descended from Stegge IIRC, John Jr had gone to England to get an education and also clean up his pedigree. English being British
, probably wouldn’t let him keep his fathers name since it was and actual English sir name. So Stagg was conceived. He was in fact very native, all the women in his family in America were native.
Which brings me to George Washington, George is a sir name, so that makes him an American “bastid” meaning he was also of mixed ancestry without a doubt.
Know this, no puritans would have used anything other than proper Christian names. And not something they chose out of a book.
In those days, names meant something “not defined” but as title.
I haven’t dug into Washington, I’d bet it’s a native place name.
Be careful, because I’ve found where Europeans- native “slaves” brought back names to Europe.
I hope this is helpful
