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These genealogical
materials have been compiled by Ann Woodlief.
Please email at awoodlief@yahoo.com
if you wish to copy or have additions or changes.. Col. Augustine Warner I (28/9/1611-24/12/1674) & Mary Markas (Townley?)(1614-11/8/1662)Col. Warner came from Norwich, England in 1630.In 1642 he received a grant for 600 acres on the Severn River, called "Austin's Desire." In 1652 in patented 2500 acres in Cheescake (Chesiake) on the Piankatank, taking it over from the Chiskiack Indians, the last tribe to live in Gloucester County. He served as a burgess 1652, 56, and on the Council 1659-74. He built Warner Hall on the Severn River in Gloucester County around 1635; it is still there [rebuilt after burning in 1845]. He and Mary and their daughter Sarah and her husband Lawrence Townley (ancestors of Robert E. Lee) are buried in a beautiful cemetary open to the public at Warner Hall. Children: Sarah, m. Colonel
Lawrence Towneley (ancestors of General Robert E. Lee) "Speaker" Augustine Warner II (3/6/1642-19/6/1681) & Mildred Reade (ca. 1646 Williamsburg-1694)Col. Warner, educated in England, inherited "Warner Hall" on the Severn River in Gloucester Co. Augustine and Mildred were married around 1666. They settled in Chesiake and lived there many years. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1676-7 and member of the Council 1676-7. He was a strong supporter of Governor Berkeley and a Royalist and had his house plundered by Bacon's men. A copy of a portrait of him (destroyed by fire at Rosewell) hangs in the library of William and Mary Library. Children: Augustine III
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