Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of U.S. President George Washington's younger brother Samuel and his kin.
U.S. President George Washington had no children of his own, but new research has identified the remains of two of his grandnephews and their mother. Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of U.S. President George Washington's younger brother Samuel and his kin. Two of Samuel's descendants and their mother were recently identified from skeletal remains found in unmarked burials dating back to the 1880s.
But unlike George Washington, who is interred in a magnificent marble tomb in Mount Vernon, Virginia, Samuel’s grave was unmarked, likely to protect it from grave robbers, Cavagnino told CNN in an email. Other graves also lacked headstones, leaving modern historians uncertain about who was buried where.
Not only did this data establish that the deceased doctor was the living Washington’s great-great-grandfather, it also showed which remains belonged to which brother, which would otherwise have been impossible to establish with certainty, the scientists said. The researchers’ analysis also produced the first Y-chromosomal DNA profile for George Washington, as male individuals in the study — living and deceased — “were all direct paternal descendants of Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington,” Marshall said.
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