Col.
John
Thornton
Born in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Mary (Thornton) Battaile, Jane (Thornton) Champe, Alice (Thornton) Taylor, Francis Thornton III, Ann (Thornton) Jackson, Reuben Thornton, Elizabeth (Thornton) Meriwether, Mildred (Thornton) Walker, Lucinda (Thornton) Buckner [half] and Lydia (Thornton) Watts
Husband of
Mildred Washington (Gregory) Thornton
— married
23 Oct 1740 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania, Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Thorton) Taliaferro, Mildred (Thornton) Washington, Mary (Thornton) Woodford and Lucy (Thornton) Lewis
Died
at about age 60
in Caroline, Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Feb 2014
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Biography
- Col. John Thornton, son of Francis Thornton and Mary (Taliaferro) Thornton, married Mildred Gregory.[1]
- 1799 Virginia Court Reports[citation needed]
- From High Court of Chancery. Taliaferro v Minor
- John THORNTON, deceased
- Issue: Mary, wife of Woodford
- Issue: Betty, wife of Taliaferro
- Issue: Daughter, wife of Washington, who has a son, Thornton Washington underage and unmarried in May 1778
- Issue: Daughter, wife of Lewis, who has a daughter, Mildred married after 1778 to a Minor.
- James Taylor one of the trustees.
- Virginia Wills
- 1799 Virginia Court Reports (a little different)[citation needed]
- Taliaferro v Minor
- John THORNTON, died intestate 1777
- Issue: Mary, wife of William Woodford (in war of 1776)
- Issue: Betty, wife of John Taliaferro
- Issue: Daughter deceased, wife of Washington (living in 1779), who has a son, Thornton Washington deceased (Griffith Stith and Frances his wife were executors)
- Issue: Daughter deceased, wife of John Lewis (living in 1779), who has a daughter, Mildred wife of William Minor.
- Lawrence Washington was an executor
- Virginia Wills
Sources
- ↑ The Family Register of Nicholas Taliaferro with Notes, by William Buckner McGroarty, published in the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1921, p. 166
- Verified by Greg Rose, direct descendant of Francis Thornton I. FamilyTreeDNA #356330. Member of the Thornton Project on FamilyTreeDNA, #356330.
- [1] Thornton 1300-1917 by Mrs. Lola Jane Carr-Bates also a genealogy done by Susan Reed Thornton
- See Also
Acknowledgments
- Thornton-1680 was created by George Bedinger through the import of ball.ged on Feb 10, 2014.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Gregory Rose
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup I-FGC23560, FTDNA kit #356330 - Jeff Rose :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #481844
- Mark Rose :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #947581
- Bill Thornton :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-FGC22115, FTDNA kit #B184570 +
Y-Chromosome Test, haplogroup I-FGC22115
- Declan Thornton :
Y-Chromosome Test, haplogroup I-FGC22115
- Mike Graham :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H3g1
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~0.78%
Marie (Perkins) Bannister :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PE3075925 [compare]
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~0.39%
Miller Hoffman :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Denise Fischer :
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