Frances GREGORY1,2,2,3,2,3
Notes
- "Robert Dunbar was a Scotch merchant at Falmouth, and prior to 1794 married Elizabeth Gregory, daughter of Francis Thornton and Anne Thompson, and granddaughter of Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory, the daughter of Roger Gregory and Mildred Washington."
-- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 40, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c
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"Roger Gregory. Son of Richard Gregory (i). Born about 1690; died prior to 1732. Married Mildred, daughter of Lawrence Washington. On the 17th of May, 1736, Roger Gregory and Mildred, his wife, deeded the Mt. Vernon estate to Augustine Washington. They were then residents of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County. The witnesses were William Aylett, John Washington, and Lawrence Butler.
Issue: Frances, who married, September 3, 1736, Francis Thornton (see Thornton Excursus); Mildred, who married, October 28, 1740, John Thornton, and
Elizabeth, who married four times:
first, April 29, 1743, Henry Willis, son of Colonel Henry Willis (who had married her mother);
second, Reuben Thornton;
third, Doctor Thomas Walker, the Explorer, and
fourth, Colonel Alcock, of the British Army.
Mildred Gregory, the elder, was the godmother of General George Washington."
-- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 58, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c
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Augustine, second son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner; married for his second wife, Mary Ball; their oldest son was George Washington (President of the United States); their only daughter, Betty Washington, was the second wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, by whom she had a numerous progeny, notable in themselves and their descendants.
Mildred, the only daughter of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner, married, first, Roger Gregory, by whom she had three daughters, Mildred, Frances, and Elizabeth, who married three brothers, Colonel John, Colonel Francis, and Reuben Thornton; she married, secondly, Colonel Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, by whom she had a son, Colonel Lewis Willis, and a daughter, Anne, who married Duff Green.
-- Peyton Neale Clarke, Old King William homes and families; an account of some of the old homesteads and families of King William County, Virginia, from its earliest settlement (Louisville: John P Morton And Company, 1897), p 75, https://archive.org/stream/oldkingwilliamho00clar/oldkingwilliamho00c
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Frances Gregory & Francis Thornton Married 3 September 1736
-- Virginia Marriage Records, Spotsylvania County, 1726-1744, by W G Stanard, Genealogical Publishing (Baltimore, 1984), p 551
1736, Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory [He was of Fall Hill, near Fredericksburg. She was a daughter of Roger Gregory and his wife Mildred Washington.]
-- Virginia Marriage Records, Spotsylvania County, 1726-1744, by W G Stanard, Genealogical Publishing (Baltimore, 1984), p 553
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