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THORNTON, Elizabeth

THORNTON, Elizabeth

Female Abt 1720 - Bef 1774  (54 years)   Has 79 ancestors and 28 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name THORNTON, Elizabeth  [1, 2, 3] 
    Birth Abt 1720  Snow Creek - Thornton Family Home, Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Address:
    "Snow Creek", Thornton Family Home
    Essex / Spotsylvania County, Virginia
    USA 
    Gender Female 
    FindaGrave Memorial ID 63366720 
    Land-Purchaser and then Seller 21 May 1738  Orange County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    purchased from John HADDOCK, 200 acres, in the fork of the Rappahannock River and Mountain Run, which he gave to his daughter, Elizabeth Meriwether, 
    • Role: Purchaser and then Seller
      Col. Francis THORNTON Jr. was living in Caroline County. On the same date, Thomas and Elizabeth MERIWETHER, living in Hanover County, sold this land to Francis THORNTON III of Spotsylvania County, Elizabeth's brother, for £60. Located at 38.4513N and -77.7628W, this land before 1734 was in Spotsvlvania County, was in Orange County in 1738, and present day it is in Culpeper County.
    Death Bef Oct 1774  Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Age 54 years 
    Burial Y  [4] 
    Person ID I3800  Cochrane Genealogy
    Last Modified 25 Aug 2025 

    Father THORNTON, Col. Francis Jr.,   b. 4 Jan 1681/82, The Hills - Thornton Family Home, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Feb 1736/37, Snow Creek - Thornton Family Home, Essex County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Mother TALIAFERRO, Mary Elizabeth,   b. 11 May 1685, Powhattan Plantation, James City County, Colony of Virginia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Aug 1741, Snow Creek - Thornton Family Home, Essex County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Family ID F317  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 MERIWETHER, Thomas Douglas,   b. Abt 1713, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Dec 1756, Louisa County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1735  Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 5] 
    Age at Marriage She : ~ 15 years - He : ~ 22 years. 
    Children 
    >  1. Male MERIWETHER, Nicholas,   b. 7 Sep 1736, Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Dec 1772, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
    >  2. Male MERIWETHER, Dr. Francis,   b. 31 Oct 1737, Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jan 1803, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    >  3. Male MERIWETHER, David,   b. 2 Sep 1739, Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1 Sep 1806, Wilkes County, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    >  4. Female MERIWETHER, Mary,   b. 4 Apr 1742, Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1800, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
    >  5. Female MERIWETHER, Elizabeth,   b. 3 Mar 1744/45, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 14 Sep 1812, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    >  6. Female MERIWETHER, Sarah,   b. 26 Nov 1746, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Louisa County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    >  7. Female MERIWETHER, Anne,   b. 1 May 1750, Louisa County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Aug 1782, Louisa County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
    +  8. Female MERIWETHER, Lucy,   b. 4 Feb 1751/52, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Sep 1837, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    >  9. Female MERIWETHER, Mildred,   b. 25 Jul 1753, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jul 1826 (Age 72 years)
     10. Male MERIWETHER, Thomas,   b. 5 Nov 1755, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Nov 1755, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    +11. Female MERIWETHER, Jane,   b. 8 Apr 1757, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1833, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F1529  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2021 

    Family 2 LEWIS, Col. Robert Sr.,   b. 1704, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 21 Dec 1765, Colony of Virginia, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1761  [1, 6, 7] 
    Age at Marriage She : ~ 41 years - He : ~ 57 years. 
    Family ID F1636  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2021 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Address:
    "Snow Creek", Thornton Family Home
    Essex / Spotsylvania County, Virginia
    USA - Abt 1720 - Snow Creek - Thornton Family Home, Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia, UK    		 Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1735 - Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand-Purchaser and then Seller - purchased from John HADDOCK, 200 acres, in the fork of the Rappahannock River and Mountain Run, which he gave to his daughter, Elizabeth Meriwether, - 21 May 1738 - Orange County, Colony of Virginia, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef Oct 1774 - Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, UK Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1195] Maurice Wesley Kendall and Guy Meriwether Benson, Book - Meriwether Family In America, (Baltimore, Maryland: For The Meriwether Society by Otter Bay Books, 2015.), 29 Jun 2021, p 233-234.

    2. [S635] The Meriwether Society, Inc., Society - Meriwether, ((http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meriweth/ : 2015)), 10 Jul 2015, accessed 10 July 2015), ID #: I16, Elizabeth Thornton; Various Meriwether Society sources.

    3. [S639] Newsletter - Meriwether Connections, 18 Feb 2021, Wells, Kathy Cave and McStravick, Jennifer, "Looking at Multiple Counties and Multiple Sources to Prove a Fact," Vol. 40 (No. 1, January-March 2021): p 6-9.
      Original source:  Organe County, VA Deeds, 1738, p 336-343.
      Deed - Orange Co., VA - Francis Thornton II      		 Deed - Orange Co., VA - Francis Thornton II


    4. [S141] Cemetery Records - Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com: n.d.), 10 Jul 2015, accessed 10 July 2015<, Memorial #63366720, Elizabeth Thornton Meriwether.

    5. [S635] The Meriwether Society, Inc., Society - Meriwether, ((http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meriweth/ : 2015)), 10 Jul 2015, accessed 10 July 2015), ID #: I4, Thomas Meriwether; Various Meriwether Society sources.

    6. [S646] Minor Meriwether, Book - Lineage of Meriwethers & Minors, (1895; reprint, n.p.: The Meriwether Society, Inc., 2003.), 9 Aug 2015, Revised Meriwether Colonial Generations: p 2.

    7. [S562] W. Winston Cochrane IV, Personal Estimate - Cochrane, W. Winston IV, 9 Aug 2015.


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