Henry WILLIS1,2
UNKNOWN - UNKNOWN
Life History
29th Apr 1743 |
Married Elizabeth GREGORY in Virginia.1 |
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Born |
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Death of Elizabeth GREGORY |
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Died |
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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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Sources
- 1. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850
- 2. Archive.org