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3 unusual facts about Augustine Warner


Augustine Warner, Jr.

His daughter Mildred was the grandmother of Washington, while his daughter Mary is an ancestor of the Queen's mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

He was the only son of Augustine Warner, who immigrated from England in 1628 and patented the plantation called "Austin's Desire" in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1642, building Warner Hall on the property.

Warner sued William Byrd I, a sometime ally of Bacon, for the damage the rebels had done to Warner Hall.



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