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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
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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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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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