Elizabeth GREGORY Mini tree diagram

Reuben THORNTON1,1,2

about 1725 - UNKNOWN

Life History

about 1725

Born

UNKNOWN

Death of Elizabeth GREGORY

UNKNOWN

Died

Other facts

 

Married Elizabeth GREGORY

Notes

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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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    "Roger Gregory.  Son of Richard Gregory (i).  Born about 1690; died prior to 1732.  Married Mildred, daughter of Lawrence Washington. ...
    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

    U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
    Reuben Thornton
    Elizabeth Gregory
    No marriage date on this index record

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