WDC GenWeb - Descendants of William Thornton
* William Thornton
b. 1627 The Hills, Yorkshire, England, d. 1708 Cod's Creek, Stafford Co VA
buried on his plantation Fall Hill, Stafford Co
Emigrated to VA before 1642. Jul 16 1675 deeded 2,000 acres of land in
Rappahannock Co VA to his sons, William, Francis and Rowland
m. Elisia Bellington or Billington
* Luke Thornton b. 1642 Richmond Co VA, d. Mar 2 1724
m. Ann _
* Ann Thornton
* Matthew Thornton
* Elizabeth Thornton
* John Thornton
* Luke Thornton Jr
* Mark Thornton
m. Mary Bruce
* Thomas Thornton
m. Martha _
* Nathaniel Thornton b. abt 1741
m. Mildred "Millie" Eldridge
* Phereby Thornton
* Sarah Thornton
* Nathaniel Thornton
* Elizabeth Thornton
* Christina Thornton
* Eldridge Thornton
* Bersheby Thornton
* Millie Thornton
* Joseph Thornton
* Samuel Suggs Thornton
* Benjamin Simes Thornton
* Susannah Thornton
* Uriah Thornton
* Benjamin Thornton
* Herod Thornton
* Thomas Thornton
* John Thornton
* Thomas Thornton
* Edward Thornton b. 1644 Richmond Co VA
2nd wife of William Thornton III b. 1627:
m. Elizabeth Rowland 1646-48 York Co VA
b. 1627 Rappahannock Co VA, d. Stafford Co VA
* Col. Francis Thornton b. Nov 5 1651 Gloucester Co VA, d. 1726
Will dated May 10 1726, proved Oct 7 1726
m. Alice Savage Apr 13 1673 Gloucester Co, b. 1653 Gloucester Co
[d/o Capt. Anthony Savage of Gloucester Co VA]
* Elizabeth Thornton b. Jan 3 1673 Richmond Co VA, d. Nov 14 1732
m. Col. Edwin Conway May 21 1695 Richmond Co
b. 1653 Richmond Co, d. Mar 19 1697
* Francis Conway I b. Apr 15 1695 d. bef Apr 12 1733
m. Rebecca Catlett Oct 21 1717
* Francis Conway II b. Dec 22 1722 d. May 17 1761
m. Sarah Taliaferro b. Oct 8 1727 d. Jan 17 1784
* Francis Conway III b. Mar 7 1748
m. Elizabeth Fitzhugh b. Oct 10 1754 d. Feb 21 1823
* Catlett Conway I b. Dec 28 1751 d. Sep 14 1827
m. Susanna Fitzhugh 1775, b. Feb 5 1756 d. Mar 15 1819
2nd wife of Francis Conway II:
m. Rachael Gibson b. May 4 1717 d. Feb 19 1761
2nd wife of Elizabeth Thornton:
m. Jonathan Gibson bef 1700, b. 1679
* Jonathan "John" Gibson Jr b. 1700 d. 1744
m. Margaret Catlett
* Rachael Gibson b. May 4 1717 d. Feb 19 1761
m. Francis Conway II b. Dec 22 1722 d. May 17 1761
2nd husband of Rachael Gibson:
m. George Taylor Feb 28 1737 VA, b. Feb 11 1710 d. Nov 4 1792
* James Taylor b. 1738
* Jonathan Gibson Taylor b. 1742
m. Ann Berry 1764
* Jonathan Taylor b. 1774
m. Mary Ashby
* Reuben Taylor b. Jan 4 1757
* William Taylor b. 1759
* Jonathan Gibson III b. 1727
* Sarah Gibson
* Rachel Gibson
* Alice Gibson
m. John Catlett
* Maragret Thornton b. Apr 2 1678/79
m. William Strother
* Sarah Thornton b. Dec 17 1680
m. Col. Lawrence Taliaferro b. 1656 d. 1720
* William Thornton b. Dec 17 1680
* Francis Thornton Jr
b. Jan 4 1681 Fall Hill Plantation, Stafford Co VA, d. Feb 6 1735 VA
m. Mary Taliaferro Sep 17 1703 St. Marks Parish, Orange Co VA
b. 1686 Powhatan Plantation, Essex Co VA, d. Aug 1 1741
* Sarah Thornton
m. Charles Taliaferro Jr bef 1727, d. 1734
* Mary Taliaferro b. abt 1720
m. Thomas Turner III
* Sarah Taliaferro b. Oct 8 1727 d. Jan 17 1784
m. Francis Conway II b. Dec 22 1722 d. May 17 1761
Descendants of Sarah Taliaferro and Francis Conway II
2nd husband of Sarah Taliaferro:
m. George Taylor abt 1767, b. Feb 11 1710 d. Nov 4 1792
* Catherine Taliaferro b. 1728
2nd husband of Sarah Thornton:
m. Thomas Slaughter 1739, b. abt 1719 d. 1768
* Lucy Thornton Slaughter b. 1736
m. Jessee Slaughter
Descendants of Lucy and Jessee Slaughter
* Frances Slaughter b. 1736-53
m. Charles Yancey 1750 Culpepper Co VA
b. 1714-31 Culpepper Co
* Elizabeth Slaughter b. 1736-51
m. Gabriel Slaughter b. 1736-51
* Thomas Slaughter
* Col. Francis Thornton III
b. 1704-14 Stafford Co VA
d. Apr 7 1749 Fall Hill, Spotsylvania Co VA
His house, built in 1736 on The Falls plantation at the falls
of the Rappahannock River and overlooking Fredericksburg, was
demolished to make way for The General Wahington Inn. Behind
this hotel is the Thornton family cem, Col. Francis is there.
One says in the fall of 1962 someone broke up and removed
many of the tombstones
m. Frances Gregory Sep-Nov 3 1736
b. 1721 d. 1782-87 Spotsylvania Co VA
[d/o Col. Roger Gregory of King and Queen Co and his wife
nee Mildred Washington, the aunt of the Godmother of General
George Washington (1732-1799)]
* George Thornton
m. Mary Alexander
* John Thornton
m. Jane Augustine Washington b. 1721 d. 1734
* Mildred Thornton b. abt 1739 d. aft 1804
m. Col. Charles Washington
b. May 2 1738 Stafford Co VA, d. 1799
Descendants of Mildred Thornton and Charles Washington
2nd husband of Mildred Thornton:
m. Burgess Ball
* Col. William Thornton b. 1742
m. Mary Stuart
* Stuart Gibbons Thornton b. abt 1790
m. Mary Frances Adelaide Stuart
* William Henry Thornton b. abt 1823
m. Mary Adeline Carter Jan 4 1853, b. Jan 5 1831
2nd wife of Col. William Thornton:
m. Elizabeth Fitzhugh
* Francis Thornton VI
m. Ann Thompson Dec 12 1758
* Frances Thornton b. Nov 22 1760 d. 1818
buried Thornton Family Cem on her father's place
m. Col. Strother Jones
m. Dr. Horace Buckner
* Mildred Washington Thornton b. Sep 30 1765
m. Abraham Maury
* Elizabeth Gregory Thornton b. Jun 11 1767
m. Robert Dunbar
* Francis Thornton V b. Jun 11 1767 d. Jul 15 1836
Last of the direct "Fall Hill" and "The Falls" line
m. Sarah Innes Jun 2 1792
* Judge Hary Innes Thornton
m. Ann Crittenden
* Butler Brayne Thornton b. Oct 2 1770 d. never married
* Mary Thornton b. Feb 1773 d. 1849
m. Dr. Alexander Voss
m. Joseph Christy
* Ann Thornton b. Jul 1776 d. never married
* Dorthea Thornton b. May 6 177_
m. Samuel Washington
* Mary Thornton
m. William Champe
m. Churchill Jones
* Elizabeth Thornton
m. John Lewis
* Alice Thornton b. 1707/08 d. 1758-70
m. James Taylor Jr b. 1703 Orange Co VA, d. 1770
m. Lawrence Calett b. 1678 d. 1723
* Elizabeth Thornton b. abt 1709
m. Robert Leiws
m. Thomas Meriwether 1735, b. 1714 Louisa Co VA d. 1756
* Col. John Thornton b. 1713 d. 1777
m. Mildred Gregory Oct 28 1740 Spotsylvania Co VA, b. 1710-20
* Mary Thornton
m. Gen. William Woodford
* John Thornton Woodford
m. Mary Turner Taliaferro
* William Catesby Woodford
* Betty Thornton
m. John Taliaferro Jr
* Lucy Thornton
m. John Lewis
* daughter
m. Col. William Minor
* Mildred Thornton
m. Samuel Washington aft 1754
b. Nov 16 1734 Wakefield, Westmoreland Co VA, d. 1781
Descendants of Mildred Thornton and Samuel Washington
* Mary Thornton b. 1715 d. 1731-99
m. Nicholas Battaile abt 1726 Caroline Co VA
b. abt 1700 Caroline Co VA
aka Nicholas Battle
* Mary Battaile b. 1731 d. 1757
m. William Taliaferro b. 1726 d. 1798
* Nicholas Taliaferro b. 1757 d. 1812
m. Anne Champe Taliaferro b. 1756 d. 1798
* Matilda Battaile Taliaferro b. 1787 d. 1843
m. Martin Pickett Marshall b. 1777 d. 1843
* Reubin Thornton b. 1717 d. Mar 28-May 1768
m. Elizabeth Gregory 1758, b. abt 1713
* Mildred Thornton b. Mar 19 1720 d. Nov 16 1778
m. Nicholas Meriwether III
b. Aug 6 1699 St Peter's Parish, New Kent Co VA, d. 1739
* Mildred Meriwether d. Nov 6 1778
m. John Syme
2nd husband of Mildred Thornton:
m. Dr. Thomas Walker 1741
b. Jan 25 1713 King & Queen Co VA
d. 1794 Castlehill, Albemarle Co VA
* Lucy Walker b. May 5 1751
m. Dr. George Gilmer Jr 1771
* Mary Walker b. Jul 24 1742 d. 1760
m. Nicholas Lewis b. 1734 d. 1808
* John Walker
m. Elizabeth Moore d. 1809
* Mildred Walker
m. Francis Kinloch
* Susan "Sukey" Walker
m. Rev. Henry Fry
* Thomas Walker b. Mar 17 1748
m. Margaret Hoops 1773
* Elizabeth "Betsy" Walker b. Aug 1 1753
m. Rev. Matthew Maury b. 1744 d. 1808
* Mildred "Milly" Thornton Walker b. Jun 5 1755
m. Joesph Hornsby 1770
* Sarah Walker
m. Col. Reuben Lindsay
* Rowland Thornton b. 1725
* Ann Thornton b. 1726
m. Robert Jackson b. abt 1720
* William Thornton b. 1730
* Lucy Thornton b. and d. abt 1731
* Lucy Thornton b. bef 1733
m. John Alexander Mar 4 1756 St. Paul's Parish, King George Co VA
b. Nov 15 1735 Salisbury, Stafford Co VA, d. 1775
* Mary Alexander
m. George Thornton
* Eliza Thornton
m. William Buckner
* Richard Buckner
* Francis Buckner
* Alice Thornton b. 1683 d. 1726
m. Col. Lawrence Taliaferro b. 1656 d. 1720
* Rowland Thornton b. Aug 1 1685
* Anne Thornton b. Mar 22 1688
* Anthony Thornton b. Mar 27 1695
m. Winifred Pressley
* Anthony Thornton
b. Nov 15 1727 St Paul's Parish, Stafford Co VA, d. 1767
m. Sarah Taliaferro Dec 31 1746 Ormsby Plantation, Caroline Co VA
b. Mar 4 1733 VA, d. Feb 6 1762 Carolina Co
[d/o Francis Taliaferro and Elizabeth Hay. Francis
is s/o Francis Taliferro and Elizabeth Catlett]
* Reuben Thornton Sr b. Sep 15 1758
one source says b. May 28 1758 Ormsby Plantation,
Caroline Co VA
m. Mildred Anne Grymes 1772
[d/o Benjamin Grymes b. Jan 19 1725 Middlesex Co VA,
and Priscilla Rootes b. abt 1722 King & Queen Co VA]
* Anthony Rootes Thornton
* Benjamin Grymes Thornton
* Nancy Thornton
* William Fitzhugh Thornton
* Reuben Thornton
b. Oct 10 1791 VA, d. Sep 26 1840 Gainsville GA
m. Maria Theresa Winston Apr 30 1812 VA
b. abt Mar 21 1793 Hanover Co VA
d. Feb 25 1852 West Point GA
* Mildred Ann Grymes Thornton
b. Feb 9 1815 Hanover Co VA
d. Oct 5 1878 Riverview AL buried West Point GA
m. Benjamin Thom Smith May 22 1839 Gainsville GA
b. Jul 10 1812 Isle of Guernsey, Channel Islands
d. May 17 1886 Riverview AL buried West Point GA
* Nicholas Cabe Thornton
* Charles Taliaferro Thornton
m. Lucy Beverly Montague
* Ann Thornton
2nd wife of Col. Francis Thornton b. Nov 5 1651:
m. Jane _ abt 1701, b. abt 1651
3rd wife of Col. Francis Thornton b. Nov 5 1651:
m. Ann _ abt 1709
* William Thornton b. Mar 27 1649 VA
m. Elizabeth Fitzhugh Aug 24 1671
* Rowland Thornton b. 1653-54
m. Elizabeth Fleming
* Esther Thornton b. abt 1655
m. Prudence Willis
Contributor: Donna Ginther Bogue
Email: donna.bogue@iname.com
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