Generation 37

Mary Townley
HUSBAND Augustine WARNER
Born 28 Nov 1610 in Norwich; Norfolk; ENG
Married 1635 in
Died 24 Dec 1674 in Warner Hall; Gloucester; VA
Burial Warner Hall Graveyard - Gloucester; VA
Father Thomas WARNER
Mother Elizabeth SOTHERTON
WIFE Mary TOWNLEY
Born 15 May 1614 in Stone Edge; Lancashire; ENG
Died 11 Aug 1662 in Warner Hall; Glouster; VA
Burial Warner Hall Graveyard - Gloucester; VA
Father Lawrence TOWNLEY III
Mother Joan HALSTEAD
CHILDREN
1 Female Sarah WARNER
Born 1638 in
Married in
Died in
Burial
Spouse Lawrence TOWNLEY
2 Female Isabella WARNER
Born 24 Aug 1640 in
Married in
Died 09 Feb 1704 in King & Queen; VA
Burial
Spouse David CANT
3 Male Colonel Augustine WARNER
Born 03 Jun 1642 in Warner Hall; Gloucester; VA
Married 1662 in
Died 19 Jun 1681 in Warner Hall; Gloucester; VA
Burial Warner Hall Graveyard - Gloucester; VA
Spouse Mildred READE
NOTES
Augustine immigrated to Virginia aboard the Hopewell in 1628, at age 17, and it is thought that he returned to England at some point between 1635 and 1638 and married Mary. Mary Warner is on a list of persons who immigrated to Virginia in 1638 arriving with Capt. Augustine Warner.
Mary and Augustine settled first at New Poquoson, York County, Virginia and later moved to Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia; where her husband built the grand estate along the Severn River, near Chesapeake Bay. The land on which Warner Hall was built was called “Austin’s Desire” in a 1642 land patent. The six hundred-acre plantation was granted to Augustine Warner as headright for bringing twelve settlers across the Atlantic Ocean to the Jamestown Settlement.
He became a member of the House of Burgesses in 1652 and then from 1659 to 1974 a member of the Council; the highest office a colonial Virginian could attain. During his years he was a merchant, statesman and investor in land. Warner Hall is a historic plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
Augustine Warner, progenitor of many prominent First Families of Virginia, and great-great-grandfather of President George Washington established the plantation in 1642 after receiving a royal land grant, and would serve in the House of Burgesses, as would many later owners.
While Augustine Warner Jr. operated the plantation and served as speaker of the House of Burgesses, rebels associated with Bacon's Rebellion sacked and looted it, as well as made it their headquarters after they sacked Jamestown.
Warner Jr. had no male heirs, although his daughter Mildred would become the grandmother of George Washington, and his daughter Elizabeth married John Lewis, who assumed the house and surrounding plantation, as well as served in the House of Burgesses, as did their descendants until circa 1820. The house burned in 1840, and the two surviving (and used) outbuildings were joined circa 1900 to become a Colonial Revival mansion.
The cemetery on the property, which includes graves of the Warner and Lewis families, has been maintained by the Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities since1903