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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...three miles from Richmond, in Chesterfield Co., and was passionately devoted to horse-flesh, . whereby his ample paternal fortune was seriously impaired. '73(c).' GEORGE WASHINGTON THORNTON, of "Rumford," Stafford. Co., Va., son' of Maj. George and Mary Alexander Thornton, grandson of Col. William and Washington Thornton, was bom 176075, and died about i8iy. Married, September 2-1, 1805, Mary Randolph, daughter of Henry and Lucy Ward Randolph, No 235, p. 11 r, granddaughter of Seth and Polly Goode Ward, who was bom at Tun Tmur Family. Thomas Tinsley, the ancestor of the prominent Tinsley family of Virginia, emigrated from Yorkshire in the Utter part of the seventeenth century, and settled in Hanover Co., Va. He was an extensive planter: shipped tobacco to England, and imported 1 hence domestic luxuries and clothing. His will bears date Oct. 9,1700. He mentions wife Elisabeth, and children, Thomas John, Cornelius, Alice. Sicily and Anne.. R. A. BaocK. ThaTlnsleys frequently intermarried with the Coodes as will appear from the index. ' Warwick," May 25, 1785, died in Pensacola, Fla., Oct. 15, 1865. Children: --1839, Henry Randolph Thornton, b. Feb. 23,1807, d. Nov. 21, -r86a. 1840, Lucy Ward, b. Mar. 21, . 1811, d. July, 1840, m. Richard Adams. 184:, Mary Goode, b. 1813, m. (1) Lieut. AUx. C. Maury, If. S. N., (2) Rev. 7. Jackson Scott, S. T. D., LL. D; 1842, Setw Brett, b. May 25,1S15, killed in front of the city of Mexico, June 1847; Captain, 2d Dragoons, U. S. A. George W. Thornton was second-cousin to General Washington. He was a wealthy planter in Stafford Co., and lived and died, at an early age, at "Rumford," a fine estate in Stafford Co., situated on the bank of the Rappahannock below Fredericksburg, which he inherited-fr...
