Life History

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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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  Family Data Collection - Individual Records
  Mildred Gregory
  Parents Roger Gregory, Mildred Washington
  Birth 1718 Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, VA
  Marriage Date 23 October 1740
  
  Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850
  Mildred Gregory
  John Thornton
  Marriage 28 Oct 1740 Spotsylvania, Virginia
  
  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  Mildred Gregory
  John Thornton
  Marriage Year 1740
  
  American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) No Image
  Mildred Thornton
  Birth 1721 Virginia
  Volume 177, Page 355
  Source Seldens of Va. & allied fams. By Mary S. Kennedy. New York [1911] (2v.):46, 95

Sources

• 1. Family Data Collection - Individual Records
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. Archive.org
• 4. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850
• 5. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• 6. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) No Image
• 7. Virginia, Biographical Encyclopedia