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Elizabeth Thornton1,2,3

ID# 965, (abt 1709 - bef 1774)
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Parents:

  • Father: Col. Francis Thornton
  • Mother: Mary Taliaferro

Key Events:

  • Born: abt 1709 in "Snow Creek", Spotsylvania Co., Virginia.3
  • Married First: Capt. Thomas Meriwether in 1735 in Virginia.4,5,6
  • Married Second: Col. Robert Lewis abt 1757 in Louisa Co., Virginia.7,8,9
  • Died: bef Oct 1774 in Fredericksville, Albemarle Co., Virginia.3

Children with Capt. Thomas Meriwether:

  • Nicholas H. Meriwether+ (1736 - 1772)
  • Francis Meriwether+
  • David Meriwether+
  • Mary Meriwether+
  • Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Sarah Meriwether
  • Anne Meriwether
  • Lucy Meriwether+
  • Mildred Thornton Meriwether+
  • Thomas Meriwether
  • Jane Meriwether+

Citations

  1. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 14.
  2. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 389, extract from 1st Series, Vol. XI (1902) pp 39-47, 146.
  3. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998.
  4. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows year and state.
  5. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 14, shows married.
  6. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 389, extract from 1st Series, Vol. XI (1902) pp 39-47, 146, shows her as his widow when she remarried.
  7. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows bef. 26 May 1761, county, and state.
  8. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, pg 278, shows as his second marriage, and that they had no issue.
  9. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 389, extract from 1st Series, Vol. XI (1902) pp 39-47, 146, shows his second marriage, in his old age, about 1757.

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