Anne

- 1676

• Name	Anne
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 21 Sep 1675 and Feb 1676  [1]
  Person ID	I35730	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family	Col. John Washington,   b. Abt 1634   d. Bef 11 Jan 1677, Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia (Age ~ 43 years)
  Family ID	F20993	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  She was the widow of Walter Broadhurst (d. 1659) and, secondly, Henry Brett. Many sources assert that she was, like Col. John Washington's third wife Frances Gerard, a daughter of Thomas Gerard and Susannah Snow. John Walton's 1973 article "Genealogica Marylandia: Gerard's Daughters" (citation details below) shows pretty conclusively that this is chronologically impossible, even leaving aside the fact that the laws of Virginia at the time forbade that a man should marry his deceased wife's sister.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5936] John Walton, "Genealogica Marylandia: Gerard's Daughters." Maryland Historical Magazine 68:443, 1973.