| Name |
Augustine Warner II  , 9G Grandfather |
| Birth |
1642, Virginia |
| Death |
1681 |
| Burial |
1681, Warner Hall Graveyard, Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia |
| Residence |
Warner Hall Plantation, Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia |
| Education |
In 1657 began his English education at the Merchant Taylors School in London and then at Cambridge |
| Father |
Augustine Warner I (1611-1674) |
| Mother |
Mary Townley |
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In 1666, became a member of the House of Burgesses, and then Speaker of the House in 1676. In 1677 he took his seat on the Council.
Order of birth of the children is not known by the author.
Augustine Warner II succeeded his father and became political friends with Nathaniel Bacon, who was educated at Oxford and a Barrister in London. Bacon staged the first actual American Revolution in 1676, as he organized an army of three hundred to four hundred pioneers to cope with the Indians North of the York River. He was involved in a private fur deal spanning the entire Virginia frontier. By the end of the decade, Bacon's troops had taken care of all the Indian tribes. They marched on Jamestown as Governor William Burkeley fled, and sailed to the Eastern Shore. Nathaniel Bacon and his troops soon set up their headquarters at Warner Hall after the burning of Jamestown in 1676. This Virginia Colony was in charge of matters North of the York to the Potomac River. Beyond the Potomac, lay the Maryland Colony. It was at Warner Hall, where he sent notices for the people to assemble to take the "Oath of Fidelity" of his fellow countrymen. Bacon contracted Malaria and died within a year his troops then fleeing the Colony.
A fascinating glimpse of Warner Hall and insight into the Warner's activity as merchants is afforded by the affidavit of their cousin John Townley, who was overseer in charge at Warner Hall in September, 1676, when Bacon's Rebellion took place and Bacon invaded Warner Hall. Townley tells how he had been entrusted with the guidance of the house and family as overseer, and had "alsoe delivered to him by Inventory all the household goods and other merchandizeing goods and stores in and belonging to the sd Coll. Warner and laid up and stored in his said house and storehouses thereto belonging, the Keyes of which houses and storehouses were demanded and commanded from him by the said Bacon and those with him; wch Keyes being afterwards in the hands & keeping of Capt. Wm. Bird." According to his report, Captain Bird shortly after coming to Warner Hall took a plate-handled scimitar and black-fringed shoulder belt belonging to Warner and wore them while there, and was still wearing them about a fortnight later when John Townley again saw him at Col. Warner's house at "Chieskake." He tells how Bird at Warner Hall opened the stores and chests and issued the goods to the armed men, who carried them away. He took particular notice that when Bird was delivering out the goods and "mett with any ffine goods, as Silke ffine Hollands, or other ffine linnings, silke Stockings Ribband, or the like he sent them into Bacons roome, where he was often called in and was very Conversant." After the intruders were gone, John Townley, on the understanding that they intended to return, packed of the remainder of the goods and put them on board the ship Lady Frances, taking an inventory so that he knew what was missing and that the true value of the purloined goods was 845 pounds 2 shillings sterling. His deposition, which he signs, is followed and confirmed by the testimony of William Blackburne and William Sympson, servants, and Richard Scarlett, a freeman and sharer, all living at Warner Hall. 318 |
