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II. John3 Reade. Married, 2 Feb., 1738, Frances Yates.
III. Mildred3 Reade. Married Philip Rootes. (Chapter IV.)
IV. Mary3 Reade. Married Mordecai Throckmorton.
V. Lucy3 Reade. Married Roger Dixon.
VI. Ann3 Reade. Married Mathew Pate.
VII. Clement3 Reade, founder of the Lunenberg family.
John3 Reade (Thomas2, George1), William and Mary College, or- dained a priest of the Church of England, 1737. (List of Emigrant Ministers to America, by Gerard Fothergill.) Married, Feb. 2, 1738, Frances Yates, daughter of Rev. Bartholomew Yates, and Sarah Nickleborough, his wife, and had Frances, b. Nov. 15, 1718. He was rector of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen Co., during and before 1760. After the death of the first Bartholomew Yates, July 26, 1734, he officiated at Christ Church, Middlesex Co., when he became acquainted with the lady he afterwards married. They had issue :
I. John4 Reade, b. 19 June, 1744; baptized 20 June, and died in infancy.
II. Sarah+ Reade. Married John Rootes.
III. Lucy4 Reade, b. 28 Dec., 1758.
GWYNN.
The Gwynns are descended from the wife of Caradoc, or Carac- ticus, as his name was Romanized, or from some other member of the same family. Caradoc was Chief of the Silures, son of Cyno- belin (Cymbeline of Shakespeare). He had a treacherous step- mother Cartismandua, Queen of the Brogantines, by whom he was basely betrayed, and surrendered to the Romans, A. D. 51.
The wife of this Caradoc was a daughter of Gwynn ap Colwyn, son of the Prince of South Wales. One of the descendants of this Chieftain Owen Gwinedd (Owen Gwynn) was one of the largest contributors to the sustenance of the Colony. In 1610, Captain
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Owen Gwinn is in the list of "lords, esquires and gentlemen," who came to America under the third charter, in 1611. He was the son of Sir John Winn (1523-1626) of the Winn family of Gwydin, by his wife Sidney, daughter of William Girrard. At the death of his elder brother, Sir Richard Wynn, bart., of Gwydin, in 1649, this Owen Gwynn, who had been knighted, succeeded to the baron- etcy. He married Grace, daughter of Hugh Williams. Their son, Hugh Gwynn, represented Gloucester, in the House of Burgesses, 1652-90, and was prominent as a vestryman, 1652-17, with Gwynn Reade. Captain Thomas Smith, and others.
Lawrence Smith, of York, and John Smith, of Gloucester, were cotemporaneous, and probably brothers, as we have on record a deed of land in Gloucester Co., by Lawrence Smith, to "his brother, John Smith, of that county," in 1666.
The destruction of the records of Gloucester County, by fire, in 1819-'20, has left much supported only by tradition, or inference concerning the connection of the Smiths of York Co., with those of "Purton," in Gloucester Co., "Shooter's Hill," in Middlesex Co., and "Fleet's Bay," in Northumberland County. But the deed of land in question, apparently from the first Lawrence Smith, of record in one family, to the first John Smith, of record in the other family, seems to prove that the relationship existed.
Of the ancestry of this Lawrence, and John Smith, no record has been found. The tradition is that their father was Thomas Smith, son of Arthur Smith, who immigrated to Virginia in 1622. Arthur Smith, the immigrant of 1622, settled first in Isle of Wight Co .; his brother, Alexander Smith, who came over in 1634, settled in Middlesex Co. These two brothers were nephews of Sir Thomas Smythe, who was so prominent in the early settlement of Virginia, as President and Treasurer, of the Virginia Company, and also of the British East India Company.
His father was Sir Thomas Smythe, of Ostenhanger Castle, County Kent, England, who married, in 1552, Alice Judd, daugh- ter of Sir Andrea Judd, Lord Mayor of London.
The history of Arthur Smith's family. between 1622 and 1780, is obscure and incomplete. In the later year, we find Thomas Smith, son of Arthur Smith, married Miss Waldrop, and were parents of Hon. Arthur Smith, who died in 1854.
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Major Lawrence Smith, of York, was an engineer and surveyor, and became quite prominent and influential in the period imme- diately previous to Bacon's rebellion. In 1674. the name of Major Lawrence Smith first appears in the historical records of the time as follows :
At a grand assembly, held at James City between the 30th of September, 1674, and the 17th of March, 1675, in which war was declared against the Indians, among other provisions for carrying it on it was ordered that one hundred and eleven men out of Gloucester County be garrisoned at one fort, or place of defense, at or near the falls of the Rappahannock River, of which fort Major Lawrence Smith to be Captain or Chief Com- mandant, and that the fort be supplied with four hundred and eighty pounds of powder and fourteen hundred and forty-three pounds of shot.
This fort was established by Major Lawrence Smith, in 1676, and later in that year he led the trained bands of Gloucester Co. against the forces of the rebel, Bacon.
In 1679, Major Lawrence Smith was empowered, provided he would "seate" down at, or near, said fort by the last day of March, 1681, and have in readiness, upon all occasions, at beat of drum, fifty able-bodied men, well armed with sufficient ammunition, etc., and two hundred men more, within the space of a mile along the river, and a quarter of a mile back from the river; prepared always to march twenty miles in every direction from the fort : to exeente martial discipline among the said fifty soldiers, and others, both in times of war and peace; and said Major Lawrence Smith, with two others, to hear and determine all causes, civil and criminal. that may arise within said limits, as a county court might do, and make by-laws for the same.
In 1722, the county seat of Spottsylvania, which included this establishment, was located at "Germana," where the first conrt sat, Aug. 1, 1722, and the following justices or magistrates were sworn in: Augustine Smith, John Taliaferro, Richard Booker. Richard Johnson, William Hansford, and William Bledsoe.
Major Lawrence Smith was surveyor of the counties of York and Gloncester in 1686. He laid out the site of Yorktown in 1691. He was recommended, in 1699, as among "'gentlemen of estate and standing," and eligible for appointment to the King's Council. but his death in 1700 prevented the bestowal of this honour upon him. Major Lawrence1 and Mary Smith had issue :
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I. Col. the Hon. John" Smith, d. 1220 ; member of the King's Council, Chancellor, County Lieutenant, of Abingdon. York River. Gloucester Co., Va. Married Elizabeth. died, 1704: daughter of John Cox, and Elizabeth Strachey. sole child and heiress of the immigrant, William Strachey, d. 1686. This William Strachey was son of William Strachey, died 1634 (Secretary to Lord de la Warre's Commission), by his first wife, Eleanor Reade. This William Strachey was probably the author of "History of Travaile into Virginie." He was the son of William Strachey, living, 1620. Dr. A. Brown. author of "Genesis of the United States." thinks this last named William was the author of "Travaile into Virginie."
In the Records of Yorktown. Dr. Lyon G. Tyler found two deeds, recording the following facts:
Elizabeth, the wife of John Smith, Esq., of Abingdon Parishr. Gloucester Co., was seized of five houses and their appurtenances. near the Brewer House vard. in the parish of St. Margarets, West- minster, England. Elizabeth died before 1:05, and on the 30th day of August, of that year, her husband sold the said property to John Strachey, of Sutton Court, in the parish of Chew Magna, in the county of Somerset, England, for $490. But as the deed was not good against the children of the said Elizabeth, then, 1705, under age. John Smith conveyed to John Strachey, as security, lands in Gloucester Co .. Va., patented by his father. Major Law- rence Smith.
Some time after, Lawrence Smith, son of the said John Smith, and Elizabeth Cox, sued John Strachey, in the high court of Chancery, in England, and by decree of 26th Oct .. 1731, was placed in possession of the lands in England. Now the first deed in Yorktown, Va., dated May 18, 1734, being from Lawrence Smith to Henry Strachey, son of John Strachey, confirmed his father, John Smith's, conveyance of the property near the Brewer- House in Westminster, and the second deed, 20 May, 1734, being from John Strachey, the father (who acknowledges in person the deed at Yorktown), releases to Lawrence Smith the trust deed on the Gloucester. Va., property.
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I. Hon. John2 Smith, b. 1720 (Lawrence1), and his wife, Elizabeth Cox, had issue :
I. William" Smith.
II. Hon. John3 Smith.
III. Lawrence" Smith, living, in 1753.
Col. Lawrence2 Smith (Lawrence1), the second son of Major Lawrence and Mary Smith, was Justice and Sheriff of York Co .; member of House of Burgesses; Colonel. He died 1739. He married twice : first, Mildred Chisman, b. Feb. 19, 1675; daughter of Capt. Thomas Chisman and Elizabeth Reade, who was daughter of Robert Reade and Mary Lily, son of George Reade and Eliza- beth Martain ; married, second, Mildred Reade, widow Goodwyn. Col. Lawrence2 Smith married Mildred Chisman, and had issue : I. Edmond? Smith (Lawrence2, Lawrence1). Married Agnes Schlater; d. 1750. Had four children :
I. Mildred+ Smith. Married David Jameson, of Yorktown, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
II. Mary Smith.
III. Thomas+ Smith.
IV. Lawrence+ Smith, d. 1788. Married, and had two sons. Philip and George.
Col. Lawrence2 Smith married. second. Mildred Reade (widow Goodwyn), and had issue :
I. Margaret3 Smith.
II. Catherine3 Smith.
III. Robert Smith (b. 1733: d. 1777), married, first, Mary Calthorpe, and had eight children; married, second. Rachael Kirby, and had one daughter, Mary Smith.
IV. Lawrence3 Smith.
V. Lucy3 Smith. Married Augustine Moore, of Temple Farm, and died 1797.
TEMPLE FARM.
When Bacon, during his rebellion, established his headquarters at Temple Farm, it was called the Middle Plantation. Benjamin Reade sold 50 acres in that county (Gloucester) in 1691, for a town site. In 1686. Ludlow's patent land was sold to Major Lawrence Smith.
The widow Ludlow married Rev. Peter Temple, and they occu- pied it at the time of its transfer to the Smiths.
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Mildred+ Smith (Edmond", Lawrence2, Lawrence1) married David Jameson, Lieut. Gov. of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her tomb is found in Temple Farm, ornamented with the Jameson arms, impaled with Smith. The inscription beneath reads :
"Here lies the body of Mildred Smith, wife of David Jameson, and daughter of Edmond Smith, and Agnes Smith, who departed this life the tenth day of December, 1778."
She was the granddaughter of Major Lawrence Smith, who bought Ludlow's land, in 1686.
Another granddaughter, Lucy, daughter of Col. Lawrence Smith and Mildred Reade, his wife, married Augustine Moore, of York, who left his estate to General Thomas Nelson, subject to the life estate of his wife. The articles of surrender were signed, in 1781. in the old Smith Mansion, then occupied by Augustine Moore on land bought from Benjamin Reade, in 1691.
Robert Smith (Lawrence2, Lawrence1). married, first, Mary ('althorpe, and had issue :
I. Calthorpe+ Smith, b. 1767.
II. Lucy+ Smith, twin; b. 1769.
III. George+ Smith, twin; b. 1769.
IV. Mildred+ Smith.
V. John+ Smith.
VI. Thomas4 Smith.
VII. Dr. Augustine+ Smith. Married, first, Alice Page. Dr. Augustine+ Smith graduated at Edinburg, Scotland, Medical College, 1795. Married, second, Alice Grymes, daughter of Hon. John Page, Governor of Virginia. They had issue :
I. Robert Nelson5 Smith, b. about 1796: first of Louisville, Ky., afterwards, of Lexington, Mo. Married, about 1825, Mary Ann Fry, of Albemarle Co., Va., and had ten children. He died at Lexington, Mo., 1877, aet. about 81 years. His grandson. Lewis Ruffin Smith, lives in Rosewell. New Mexico.
II. John Page" Smith. Married Frances Elizabeth Bennett. He married twice and had several daughters, one liv- ing in Lexington, Ky .; and two sons; one killed during the Civil War. He died about 1825. at Louisville.
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III. Augustine Sidney Smith, b. Yorktown, Va., May 8, 1798; d. April 11, 1863, at Meridian, Miss., and was buried at Mobile, Ala. He married Ann Sabina Fuqua, daughter of Archibald Fuqua, and had three sons, and two daughters.
IV. Lucy Calthorpe Smith. Married Ralph Wormeley Digges, of Louisa C. H., Va. They removed to Alabama, and he died in 1836. The widow removed to live with her nephew, Dudley Digges Smith, in Shepherdstown, W. Va.
V. William Thomas Nelson Smith. Married, about 1835, Elizabeth Fuqua, and removed to Alabama.
VI. Alice Frances Burwell Smith, died in infancy.
Augustine Sidney Smith married Ann Sabina Fuqua, and had issue :
I. Sarah Elizabeth Page Smith6. Married John Thomas Ball, at Meridian. Issue :
1. Augustine H. Ballī, deceased.
II. Mary Anzolet Ball. Married Thomas Williams, both dead. Issue :
1. Edward Ball Williamss, living in Meridian, Miss.
III. Lucie Alice Ball ?. Married O. E. Wilkins, living in Yorkville, S. C. Issue :
1. Anne Sibley Wilkins8. Married Robert Alein, living in Yorkville, S. C.
II. Rev. Dudley Digges Smith", b. 1835; d. 1902. Married first (1859), Susan Ingraham Sparrow, b. 1830, d. 1861, and had Frances Ann Smith. b. 1860, now Mrs. Frances Wood.
Rev. Dudley Digges Smith6 married, second (1866), Mary Barclay, of Philadelphia, Pa., d. 1803; had a child.
III. Lucy Ann Smith6. Married (1868) Thomas W. Scott, an Englishman, born in Macclesfield, Cheshire Co., Eng- land. They lived at 2810 11th St .. Meridian. Miss., and had one son, Dudley, who died.
IV. Wright Otey Smith6. Married Susan Maybank Geyer, of Louisa C. H., Va. They removed to Alabama, living in Washington, D. C. Issue :
I. Alice Elizabeth Smith".
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[1. Frances Barnfield Smith".
III. John Dudley Smith".
IV. William Angustine Smith ?.
V. Augustine A. Smith", unmarried. Lives with his sister in Meridian, Miss.
Frances Anne Smith (Dudley", Augustine5. Dr. Augustine+, Robert®, Laurence", Laurence1), only child of Rev. Dudley Digges Smith and his wife, Susan Ingraham Sparrow. Married (at Shanghai, China, April 19, 1892) Dr. Edgar Woods, and had children :
1. Mary Barclay Woods", b. Shanghai, China, Sept. 13, 1893.
11. Susan Sparrow Woodss, b. Philadelphia, Pa .. Nov. 18, 1895.
III. Dudley Laurence Smith Woodss, b. in Tsin Kiang Pie. China, March 21, 1897.
IV. Frances Victoria Sampson Woodss, b. Charlottesville, Va., May 24, 1900.
V. Edgar Colin Cooper Woodss. b. in Charlottesville, Va .. Oct. 18, 1902.
Margaret Reade" ( Robert2. George1). married Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown.
THE NELSON FAMILY.
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., was the son of Hugh Nelson, of Penryth, county Cumberland, England, and Sarah, his wife. He was b. February 20, 1677. He emigrated to the Colony of Virginia about 1700, and died at Yorktown. October 7, 1745, aged sixty-eight years, and was buried in the Episcopal churchyard there. He was commonly called "Scotch Tom Nelson," from the fact that his parents were from the north of England.
He founded Yorktown in 1205. He first built a wooden house. followed by a brick house in 1715, and another in 1725. During the siege of Yorktown by the Colonial troops in October, 1781. it was battered too badly to be repaired, and not a vestige of either of these houses now remains.
"Scotch Tom Nelson" took for his first wife, about 1220. Margaret Reade, granddaughter of George Reade, the immigrant.
William Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co .. Va .. "President of the
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Dominion of Virginia," hence known as President Nelson, eldest son and child of "Scotch Tom Nelson," of England, and Margaret Reade, daughter of Robert, and granddaughter of George Reade, the immigrant, b. about 1711, d. November, 1772, aged sixty-one years. Married (about 1738) Elizabeth (called "Betty") Burwell. President of the Council, he occupied the chair of Governor until the arrival of Lord Dunmore in 1772. This was a short time before his death.
NELSON COAT-OF-ARMS
ARMS-Per pale argent and sable, a chevron between three fleurs de lis, counter-changed.
Crest-A fleur de lis per pale, argent and sable.
Motto-"Palmam qui meruit ferat."
Mary Nelson+, b. Yorktown, Va., about 1713, married (about 1733) Col. Edmund Berkeley, of Barn Elms, Middlesex Co., Va. Issue :
I. Edmund Berkeley5, Jr., of same place. Married, first, Mary Randolph, of Tuckahoe; second, Mary Burwell.
II. Nelson Berkeley", of Airwell, Hanover Co., Va. Married Betty Carter.
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III. Mary (called "Molly") Berkeley5. Married Dr. Corbin Griffin. Issue :
I. Major Griffin“.
IV. Sally Berkeley".
V. Lucy Berkeley5.
(See Volume II, Chapter XI.)
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., "Secretary of His Majesty's Council in Virginia," hence known as Secretary Nelson. second son and third child of "Scotch Tom Nelson," of England, progenitor of the Nelson family of Virginia, and Margaret Reade. his wife; b. Yorktown, Va., 1716; d. 1782, aged sixty-six. Hc married about 1745 Lucy Armistead. (See Volume II, Chapter XIX.)
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., Governor of the State of Virginia and hence known as Governor Nelson, Major General in the army of the Revolution, was b. at Yorktown, Va .. December 26, 1738. He was the eldest son and child of President William Nelson of the same place, and Elizabeth Burwell, his wife, and was grandson of Thomas Nelson, known as "Scotch Tom Nelson," and his wife, Margaret Reade. He died during an attack of asthma, caused by exposure during the Revolution. at Mount Airy, Hanover Co., January, 1789, aged fifty-one years. He was educated in England and on his return to Virginia, when barely twenty-one years old, he was elected to the House of Burgesses. He was a member of the first committee that met at Williamsburg, James City Co., in 1774, to consider the question of taxation of the Colonies of America by the home government of Great Britain.
A committee was appointed to inquire of the several colonies the various violations of their constitutional rights by the British ministry. This committee consisted of: Peyton Randolph, Robert Carter Nicholas, Richard Bland, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton, Patrick Henry, Dudley Digges. Dabney Carr, Archibald Cary, and Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Nelson was a member of the Provincial Committee, and in July, 1774, he was appointed Colonel of the Second Virginia Regiment of Infantry. He was a member of the Convention which met at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., in May, 1776, to frame
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a constitution for Virginia, and was selected to offer the resolu- tions instructing the delegates in Congress at Philadelphia to vote to pass the Declaration of Independence.
He signed the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1:26. In Angust, 1777, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Vir- ginia State Forces, and soon after raised a troop of cavalry with which he reported at Philadelphia. In June, 1781, he was elected Governor of Virginia, for occupying which place he was recom- mended by Thomas Jefferson, then retiring from office.
He participated in the siege of Yorktown in 1718, as Commander of the Virginia troops, with the rank of Major General in the American army. His statue is one of six placed about that of Washington at Richmond in front of the capitol.
Governor Thomas Nelson married (July 29, 1762) Lucy, daugh- ter of Philip Grymes, of Middlesex Co., Va., and Mary Randolph, daughter of Sir John Randolph, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., and Susanna Beverley, his wife. Their ninth child, Robert Nelson, b. Yorktown. December 14, 1778, married (about 1803) Judith Carter, youngest daughter and ninth child of Governor John Page, of Virginia, by his first wife, Frances Burwell.
Robert Nelson was known as Chancellor Nelson, having been Chancellor of William and Mary College, of which he was Professor of Law and Equity Judge. He was a presidential elector in 1813. Their one surviving child, Lucy Nelson, married Hon. Hugh N. Pendleton, of Caroline Co., and was his first wife.
Col. George Reade and Elizabeth Martain had four sons: John, Thomas, Benjamin, and Francis. Thomas Reade was a king's councillor in 1663.
Col. George Reade's daughter, Mildred, married Col. Augustine Warner of Gloucester Co.
According to a deed dated 1708, in York Co., Mrs. Mildred Warner bought land from her brother, Thomas Reade, and on her death she left said land to her surviving son, Robert Warner, who dying unmarried the land went to his three surviving sisters, daughters of his mother, Mrs. Mildred Warner, namely :
T. Isabelle Warner. Married John Lewis.
II. Mildred Warner. Married Laurence Washington.
III. Mary Warner. Married John Smith, of "Purton."
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Col. Augustine Warner, Sr., came to Virginia about 1628, and finally settled in Gloucester Co .. on an estate called "Warner ITall." The name of his wife whom he married in England is unknown. He was Burgess from York in 1652. and from Gloucester in 1658. He was a member of the King's Council. 1659-74, and died 1674 or '26. His daughter, Sarah Warner, mar- ried Laurence Townley. (Hening's Statutes, VIII. p. 630.) Issue. Alice Townley, married Major John Grymes, of Middlesex Co., who was the son of Lieutenant General Thomas Grymes of Cromwell's army. Major John Grymes settled at "Grymesby Hall" on the Piankatank River. Middlesex Co. He was vestryman of Christ Church Parish, 1694 to 1708, and justice for Middlesex Co .. 1:06. Died about 1708. Major John Grymes married Alice Townley. They had issue :
I. Col. John Grymes, of "Brandon." on the Rappahannock in Middlesex Co. (bought from the Beverleys). Col. John was b. 1693; d. 1748. Burgess for Middlesex 1718: vestryman for Christ Church 1:11, when he was only eighteen years old and continued as vestry- man until his death in 1745. Auditor General of Virginia, 1716; member of the King's Council. 1225. Married (Dec. 22. 1715) Lucy. daughter of Philip Ludwell and his wife Hannah. daughter of Benjamin Harrison, of "Wakefield."
Il. Col. Charles Grymes, of "Maratlico." Richmond Co .. son of Major John and Alice (Townley) Grymes, of "Grymesby Hall": was sheriff of Richmond Co., 1724- 25; member of the King's Council. He married Frances, daughter of Col. Edmund Jennings, Esq .. of "Ripon Hall." Yorkshire. England. He was of the King's Council : Secretary of War in 1704. Married Frances, daughter of Henry Corbin. of "Buckingham House," Middlesex Co .. Va.
Col. John and Lucy (Ludwell) Grymes had issue :
I. Lucy Grymes, b. April 18, 1220. Married, first (JJan. 5. 1737). Carter Burwell. of "The Grove": second (Dec. 1, 1753). Colonel Henry Lee, of Leesylvania, at "Green Spring," James River. By this last marriage she had six sons and four daughters.
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The eldest son of Lucy Grymes and Col. Henry Lee was known as "Light Horse Harry Lee," a famous General of the Revolu- tion, who was born January 29, 1756, at Leesylvania, some three miles from "Dumfries," a village built by Scotch merchants, and then the county seat of Prince William Co.
General Henry Lee died March 25, 1818, aged sixty-three. He was twice married. By his first wife, Matilda. daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee, he had four children, and by his second wife, Anne Hill Carter, of "Shirley," he had six children. The last son by the second marriage was Robert Edward Lee, C. S. A. (See Volume II, Chapters VII and VIII.)
Col. Augustine Warner, Jr., of "Warner Hall," Gloucester Co., Va., b. June 3, 1642, according to the inscription on his tomb- stone, and b. Oct. 20, 1843, according to the books of Merchant Taylor's School, London, England, where he was entered as a pupil in 1657, as the "eldest son of Augustine Warner, Gent., of Virginia." He was a member of the King's Council; Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1675. He married Mildred, daughter of George Reade and Elizabeth Martain. Col. Augustine Warner d. June 19, 1681. They had issue :
I. Augustine Warner, b. June 17, 1665; d. unmarried, March 17. 1687.
Il. George Warner, d. young and unmarried.
III. Robert Warner, d. young and unmarried.
Elizabeth (or Isabelle) Warner married Col. and Chancellor John Lewis, of Gloucester Co. He built Warner Hall and lived there.
Mildred married twice, first, Laurence Washington, of West- moreland Co., and was grandmother of General George Washing- ton, first president of the United States; second. George Gayle, of England, and returned with him to that place where she died in 1700 and was buried in St. Nicholas Church, Whitehaven.
Mary married Capt. John Smith, of "Purton," February 11. 1680.
WARNER HALL.
This was a grand hunting place, game of all sorts in abundance, water for yacht anchorage, with fish, oysters, and crabs at demand. The estate was the home of Augustine Warner, Speaker of the House of Burgesses in the old colonial times.
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In the family burial ground on the place a slab of blue stone records some of his many virtues. A portrait of Col. Augustine Warner, taken about 1677, shows him in official wig and red curls, as Speaker of the House of Burgesses. He held this posi- tion at the time of Bacon's Rebellion. He was a member of the House of Burgesses which remained in session from 1666 to 1676, and in 1677 was a member of the Council, of which he continued a member until his death.
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