The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2024-12-22 11:10:53.

Original Title: TIL around the same time George Washington’s family moved to Virginia, another branch of the family moved to the Netherlands and later became Bavarian nobility, the Barons Von Washington. Von Washington wrote to his relative(6 generations removed) asking to serve in the US army, but got rejected