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