Augustine Warner Sr. (1611 - 1674)

Ancestors Descendants Augustine came to Virginia about 1628 and finally settled in Gloucester County on an estate called "Warner Hall." He was a Member of the House of Burgesses from York in 1652, and from Gloucester in 1658. He was a member of the King's Council, 1659-74. He is great, great grandfather of President George Washington and the the fourth great-grandfather to Gen Robert E Lee.

Ancestor of US President George Washington

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth 1.2 Marriage 1.3 Death 1.4 Life 1.5 Children 2 Research Notes 2.1 Disputed Children 2.2 Well Known Descendants 3 Sources

Biography

Colonel Augustine Warner, Senior (1610-1674)^[1] was a Burgess of the Colony of Virginia, and the founder of Warner Hall.

Birth

Augustine Warner was born 28 Sep 1611^[2] to Thomas and Elizabeth (Southerton) Warner,^[3] probably in Norwich, Norfolk, England.^[4]

Marriage

Augustine Warner married Mary Towneley^[3] about 1635. ^{[4] [5]}He was a resident of Virginia at the time, but there is the possibility that he returned to England to marry. There was a thought at one time that she was Mary Markas, and this still appears on some trees.^[6]

Death

Augustine Warner died 24 Dec 1674,^[5][3] at his home Warner Hall in Gloucester County, Virginia Colony. His birth and death dates were inscribed on his tombstone, in the family cemetery on the property. There are photos at Find a Grave of the tomb, but the photos don't clearly show the inscription. This inscription comes from an earlier reading done about 1894: ^[2]

Augustine Warner Deceased
y^e 24th of December 1674,
Aged 63 Yeares 2 M^th 26D^s.
Tho dead whilest most men live he canot dy
His name will live fresh in their memory
True worth is highly shown in liveing well
When future ages of his praise shall tell

Life

Augustine Warner, Senior, immigrated to Virginia in the Hopewell in 1628.^[5] He was here in 1635, when he received a grant of land, 250 acres in York County.^[7] He was referred to in many records as "Gentleman," and his coat of arms is of the Welsh family Warner.^[6]

Augustine probably lived on the first patent of land on the Poquoson River, at least until 1642, when he acquired land on the Severn River, which was first York County and became Gloucester County in 1651. His residence became known as "Warner Hall." In 1652, he was both a Justice of the Peace for York and a Burgess representing York in the General Assembly. It is not positive if he lived in York at this time, or if perhaps his familiarity to the people of the County of York, allowed him to serve for a county where he didn't live.^[6]

Seal of the Virginia Governor's Council

Warner was in the local militia, with the rank of Captain, and later as a Colonel.^[6] In March 1658/9 Capt. Augustine served as a Burgess for Gloucester. The next year he was Justice of Gloucester (p137),^[8] and was appointed by the King to the Governor's Council. This was a lifetime appointment and the highest office a colonial Virginian could attain.^[6][5]

The Chesapeake Bay lies between Virginia on the West and the Delmarva Peninsula of Maryland on the east. The coastline is lined with large rivers and small rivers, small inlets and other bays. Sailing into the Bay from the South, the first major river is the James. Sailing farther north one reaches the York River, but just before the York is a smaller river the Poquoson. Augustine Warner, 12 October 1635 patented one neck of ground called by the name of Pynie Neck, approximately 250 acres lying at the new Poquoson, west into the woods, east upon the bay, south upon Samuell Bennetts plantation and north upon Mr. Pettys land. This land was in payment for the transportation of 5 persons. When it was renewed, another 200 acres were added.^[9] 13 May 1638, Augustine received another 450 acres at New Poquoson, called Pynie neck.^[9] This perhaps looks as though it may be a repetition of the 1638 patent with the additional 200 acres. This one is for transporting 7 persons.

Sailing north again along the Bay, Augustine Warner received a 600 acre patent of land in 1642, for the transport of 12 persons. This land was lying in Severne in the first river in Mockjack (now Mobjack) Bay, beginning on the North side of the Severne called Austins Desire, north towards land surveyed by John Robins, thence to a creek dividing same from land of Humphrey Hammore.^[9][6][8] Additional lands were added to this parcel: in 1653 (for 2 persons) 80 acres adjoining his Severn river property; part of 594 acres shared with Mr. John Robins (12 persons) in 1654; 148 acres 11 Feb 1657.^[9]

26 October 1652, Captain Augustine, again received land for transporting 50 settlers to Virginia. This time it was 2500 acres "lying about the branches of old Cheesecake town on south side of Peanketank River."^[9][8][6] This land was north of the the Severn River land (perhaps 10 or 20 miles in a straight line) and just before the Rappahannock River by ship. In 1657, another 200 acres was added to this tract.

In 1658 he bought 3000 acres in Lancaster County.^[6][10]

Children

Augustine and Mary had a son and two daughters,^[5] as far as known:

i. Sarah, m Lawrence Townley;

their dau, Alice, m Col. John Grymms of Middlesex Co.;

their dau, Lucy m Col. Henry Lee;

their eldest son was known as "Light Horse" Henry Lee m Anne Hill Carter of "Shirley", whose youngest son was Robert Edward Lee

ii. AUGUSTINE WARNER, Jr., b 1642/3; m MILDRED READE, (see following)

iii. daughter, name Unknown, m David Cant

Research Notes

Disputed Children

Isabella Warner: There are many genealogies and family histories^[11] that claim John Lewis married Isabella Warner daughter (sometimes "probably daughter") of Augustine Warner Sr. and sister of Augustine Warner Jr. These genealogies have since been proven incorrect.^[12]

Well Known Descendants

US President George Washington is Augustine's great-great-grandson.^[13]

Robert E. Lee is Augustine's 4x great-grandson.^[14]

Queen Elizabeth II of England^[15] is Augustine's 9x great-granddaughter.^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ Warner, Augustine I - A8305; born 1611, died 24 December 1674 Gloucester Co.; York Co.: 1652; Gloucester: 1659 (Burgess), 1660-71 (Councillor). accessed 5 November 2021
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Tyler, Lyon G. "Inscriptions on Old Tombs in Gloucester Co., Virginia." The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr., 1894), p. 226
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Mary Burton Derrickson McCurdy. "The Townleys and Warners of Virginia and Their English Connections." in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 81, no. 3 (1973): 319-67. Accessed March 26, 2021 at JSTOR.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Mrs. Mary Derrickson McCurdy, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, noticed a clue in Raine’s edition (2883) of Dugdale’s 1664-5 Visitation of …Lancaster. A chart in this visitation has a branch of the Townley family which included the marriage of a Mary Townley to an Augustine Warner. She wrote an essay in the July, 1973, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, which gives Augustine Warner’s ancestry, and identified his wife as Mary Townley.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, vol IV, page 207
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7} Sorley, Merrow Egerton, Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family. Baltimore: Genealogical Publ. Co., 1979. Originally published 1935."
7. ↑ Robins, Sally Nelson. History of Gloucester County, Virginia, and it's Families. (p 6.) Richmond, Va.: West, Johnston & Co., 1893.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Mason, Polly Cary (compiler). Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia. Volumes I and II. Abstracts of original records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Searchable at Ancestry.com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and pioneers; abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800 (Volume 1). 1934. (pp 32, 92,142, 227, 264, 301, 365,
10. ↑ Virginia County Records, Quarterly Magazine. Vol VI June 1909 No.2. "Index to Land Grants" 3000 acres in Lancaster County on p 353 of the records p123 of text.
11. ↑ For example: Historic families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green publ. 1889, & Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin, by Sarah Travers & Lewis Scott Anderson, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1938
12. ↑ Lewis of Warner Hall by Merrow Egerton Sorley, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1935.
13. ↑ WikiTree's Relationship Finder (as of 31 December 2020).
14. ↑ WikiTree's Relationship Finder (as of 31 December 2020).
15. ↑ Records of Colonial Gloucester which Includes Mathews County. "The Pedigree of the Queen Elizabeth of England copied from the Illustrated London News, Published on the occasion of the visit of the King and Queen to America. Contained in Mason, Polly Cary (compiler). Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia. Volumes I and II. Abstracts of original records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Searchable at Ancestry.com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. (Vol II p. 39)
16. ↑ Her mother, wife of George VI, is Augustine's 8x great-grand, according to WikiTree's Relationship Finder as of 31 December 2020.

• Merrow Edgerton Sorley's, “Lewis of Warner Hall”, Virginia 1935; supplemented by Maud Potter’s “The Willises of Virginia, Part V, pp. 115-117;

• Mason, Polly Cary (compiler). Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia. Volumes I and II. Abstracts of original records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Searchable at Ancestry.com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006

• Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume IV, page 207

• Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. III Heale-Muscoe Note: Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. III Heale-Muscoe, Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. III

• Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Heraldica, Being a Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor, With Genealogical Notes of the Families

• Augustine Warner, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed November 21, 2016)

See also:

• Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
  Find A Grave: Memorial #7656588 (accessed 10 May 2023)
  Memorial page for Col Augustine Warner I (28 Sep 1611-24 Dec 1674), citing Warner Hall Graveyard, Naxera, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Melaney Friesen Shaum (contributor 47261644).