Life History
about 1695 |
Born.1 |
Nov 1733 |
Married Mildred Warner WASHINGTON.2 |
1734 |
Birth of daughter Sarah Anne WILLIS.2 |
1734 |
Birth of son Lewis WILLIS.2 |
1740 |
Died.2 |
UNKNOWN |
Birth of son Henry WILLIS |
Notes
- Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Mildred Washington
Birth Date 1696 Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Parents Lawrence Washington, Mildred Warner
Spouse Henry Willis
Marriage Date 1716
At that time, Fredericksburg was a town in Spotsylvania County. It was not actually incorporated as a city until 1781. It was made an independent city in 1879.
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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. 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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