| Name |
Augustine Warner I, 10G Grandfather |
| Birth |
1611, England |
| Death |
1674, Warner Hall Plantation, Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia |
| Burial |
1674, Warner Hall Graveyard, Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia |
| Immigration |
1628, Virginia |
| Immi Memo |
At 17 years old. Arrived as one of a group of 34 brought in by Adam Thoroughgood. |
| Residence |
1635, Virginia |
| Reside Memo |
His first land acquisition patenting two hundred fifty acres. |
| Residence |
abt 1657, Warner Hall House, Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia |
| Reside Memo |
settled and built the first house at what became Warner Hall Plantation. |
| Occupation |
Merchant, Land Investor, and Statesman |
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| Notes |
| In 1652 he became a member of the House of Burgesses and then in 1659 a member of the Council, the highest office a colonial Virginian could attain. There he continued until his death in 1674. |
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| Notes |
The ancestry of the Warner family and the identity of Mary, wife of the first Augustine Warner, were completely unknown until comparatively recently. This always seemed odd, because the name Augustine Warner was distinctive, he obviously came from an educated class, he used a coat of arms, and it seemed reasonable to expect to find records.
It remained for a very able scholar, Mrs. Mary Derrickson McCurdy, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to notice a clue in Raine’s edition (2883) of Dugdale’s 1664-5 Visitation of ?Lancaster. Mrs. McCurdy had been studying the Townley family, and came across a chart in this visitation of a branch of the Townley family which included the marriage of a Mary Townley to an Augustine Warner. Proceeding from here, she developed a magnificent Assay in the July, 1973, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, which gives Augustine Warner’s ancestry, identified his wife as Mary Townley, and shows several other connections of the Townleys with the Warners and other early Virginia families. It is from Mrs. McCurdy’s article that the account of Bacon’s invasion of Warner Hall is copied (supra).(John A. Washington, Feb 2001) |
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