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Warner married Mary Townley(1614–1662) of Stone Edge in Lancashire, who bore at least three children who survived their patents. Her father died in 1654/5 and her nephews (sons of her brother Lawrence Townley emigrated to the colony between 1658 and 1672, probably nearer 1660). Their son Augustine
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in 1676, the year of Bacon's Rebellion, and after that insurrection was quashed (Warner Hall being damaged therein), he too won appointment to the Virginia Governor's Council. However, his member ship there was cut short by his early death in 1681 at the age of thirty-nine. Moreover, Austin Jr's
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and continued the family's planter and political traditions. The younger Austin Warner had received an English education in London and at Cambridge University, and during this man's life by 1666 had emulated his father's political career path by winning election to the House of Burgesses. Austin
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as a merchant, landowner, and politician, Warner rose through the class hierarchy. He received an appointment as justice of the peace for York County in 1652 (the justices jointly governing counties in that era). Warner also won his first elective office that year, serving as one of York County'
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since 1980, it is now operated as an inn. It stayed in the eldest male line of the Lewis family, through a succession named Warner Lewis, until 1834, when it was sold by a daughter of the last, Elizabeth Lewis. The Lewis descendants became known as the "Warner Hall Lewises".
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Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia
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Elizabeth, who, in about 1691, married John Lewis, and kept the Warner Hall house in the division of the Warner properties after the brothers' deaths. Elizabeth and John Lewis were the grandparents of
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Mary Burton Derrickson McCurdy, A Discovery Concerning the Townley and Warner Families of Virginia, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 77 pp.473-476. (October 1969)
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Mary Burton Derrickson McCurdy, The Townleys and Warners of Virginia and their English Connections, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 81 p. 319, 327, 334 (1981)
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In 1635, Warner may have completed the terms of his indenture, and definitely made his first land acquisition, patenting 250 acres (1 million m) in New Poquoson in
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along Mobjack Bay (near modern Yorktown, then in Charles River Parish) was made jointly with his neighbor and sometime burgess John Robins. Warner initially settled on the
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area. About 1657, Warner began building the first house at Warner Hall. He operated his plantations using a mixture of indentured (and later) enslaved labor.
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Augustine Jr. had three sons, all of whom died unmarried, and three daughters, who inherited the Warner property and left many descendants:
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three sons all died unmarried, although his daughters all married prominent landowners and politicians as discussed below.
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Augustine Warner died in Virginia on December 24, 1674, at sixty-three, and was succeeded at Warner Hall by his only son,
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Jr. continued his father's career path as discussed below. One of Augustine Jr's sisters married burgess
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and formed from York County in 1651). One of those patents, for 594 acres on the north side of the
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Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders
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Mary, who, in 1680, married John Smith of Purton; they were ancestors of Queen
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Warner Jr. exceeded his father's accomplishments by becoming that body's
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Continuing an upper-class pattern of 17th-century success in
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Warner Hall remains today as a historic house. On the
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Augustine Warner
Augustine Warner Jr.

Virginia Governor's Council
House of Burgesses
Gloucester County
Francis Willis
Peter Jenings
House of Burgesses
York County
Francis Morgan
Henry Lee
Ralph Wormeley Sr.
Norwich, Norfolk
Kingdom of England
Augustine Warner Jr.

Virginia General Assembly
prominent colonial family
Augustine Warner Jr.
Norwich, Norfolk
Adam Thoroughgood
Elizabeth City County
York River
Gloucester County
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Severn River
Pianketank Creek
Chiskiack
Powhatan Confederacy

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