Join the Quinte Loyalists for a reenactment of the landing of bateaux, wreath laying at the Old Loyalist Burying Ground and a Patriotic Parade.

The Genealogy Booths will include Global Genealogy Supply, Linda Corupe, Russ Waller, Sher Leetooze and many more.

See you on the 17th in Adolphustown.

Eleanor Moult and Ron Atkins at Adolphustown Landing 1999

Through Francis Cooke's grand-daughter, Elizabeth Mitchell and her husband, John Washburn, many sons and daughters of Bay of Quinte pioneers are cousins of the Bush family.

The Bushes have been a political dynasty for over half a century. The President's father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, of Connecticut, was a U.S. Senator from 1952 to 1963.

Politics is nothing new to the Washburn descendants. Ebenezer Washburn U.E., a sergeant in the Loyal Rangers, was a businessman and politician of reknown in Prince Edward county. His son, Simeon, was a Member of Parliament and Judge. In 1835, Ebenezer's sixth son, Simon was a Colonel with the 2nd Regiment of West York militia. In 1829 he had been a made a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Ebenezer's sister, Jemimia Gary Perry, was the progenitor of many Ernesttown politicians and early Methodist preachers. She married Corp. Robert Perry of the Loyal Rangers in 1771. Jemima removed with her young family to Quebec after Burgoyne's surrender in 1777. There they stayed until in 1784 a portion of Jessup's Loyal Rangers removed to 2nd Town (Ernesttown) on the Bay of Quinte.

G.H. Bush Bio          J. Bush Bio

George H. Bush, Former U.S. President   George H. W. Bush, US President     Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida

14 Generations of the Bush Line

1/ Francis COOKE, Mayflower 1582 - 1663
...+Hester MAHIEU WFT Est. 1569-1592 - 1666
2/ Jane COOKE 1604 - 1644
...+Experience MITCHELL 1602 - 1689
3/ Elizabeth MITCHELL 1629 - 1684
...+John WASHBURN 1620 - 1686
4/ Mary WASHBURN 1662 -
...+Samuel KINGSLEY, Jr.
5/ Samuel KINGSLEY 1693 - 1730
...+MARY
6/ Silence KINGSLEY 1727 -
...+Samuel HERRICK 1732 - 1797
7/ Sarah HERRICK 1764 - 1823
...+Nathaniel BUTLER 1761 - 1829
8/ Samuel Herrick BUTLER 1785 - 1851
...+Judith LIVINGSTON 1785 - 1858
9/ Courtland Philip Livingston BUTLER 1813 - 1891
...+Elizabeth Slade PIERCE 1822 - 1901
10/ Mary Elizabeth BUTLER 1850 - 1897
...+Robert Emmet SHELDON 1845 - 1917
11/ Flora SHELDON 1872 - 1920
...+Samuel Prescott BUSH 1863 - 1948
12/ Prescott Sheldon BUSH, Senator 1895 - 1972
...+Dorothy WALKER 1901 - 1992
13/ George Herbert Walker BUSH, 41st U.S. President 1924 -
...+Barbara PIERCE 1925 -
14/ George Walker BUSH, Governor Texas

The Bay of Quinte Line

1/ Francis COOKE, Mayflower 1582 - 1663
...+Hester MAHIEU WFT Est. 1569-1592 - 1666
2/ Jane COOKE 1604 - 1644
...+Experience MITCHELL 1602 - 1689
3/ Elizabeth MITCHELL 1629 - 1684
...+John WASHBURN 1620 - 1686
4/ James WASHBURN 1672 - 1749
...+Mary BOWDEN 1670 - 1747
5/ James WASHBURN 1698 - 1749
...+Elizabeth LEONARD
6/ Simeon WASHBURN 1721 - 1802
...+Jemima GARY 1721 - 1804
7/ Ebenezer WASHBURN, Esq. J.P. Sgt. U.E. 1756 - 1826
7/ Jemima Gary WASHBURN 1754 - 1830

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