Antigua and the Antiguans. Volume 2

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the lifetime of his father, his three surviving sisters became the co-heirs of the family property—viz., 1. Grace, born at Cobb's Crop, Antigua, 13 Oct. 1717, died 31 May, 1754; m. 1st, (in 1735,) Samuel Byam, Esq., the son of Major.S. Byam, and grandson of Col. Willoughby Byam; and 2ndly, William Fauquier, Esq., F.R.S. By her first husband (buried at St. George's, Antigua, 14 Jan. 1738) she bad issue one son and one dau.,

Samuel, who died 19 Nov. 1761, three weeks before the day appointed for his marriage, when his sister, 2. Phillis, became his heir. 1.

By her second husband (buried at Eltham, 21 Dec. 1788, aged 80) she had, among other issue, Thomas Fauquier, who died in 1827. 4. Georgiana, m. 25 May, 1787, George Venables Lord Vernon. 3.

2. Elizabeth-Anne, born in 1718, and m. in 1739, to Godschall Johnson, of Bloomsbury-square, Esq., (which family are now in possession of the Warner estates of Savannah and Folly,*) by whom she had issue. 3. Jane, born at Christ's Church, Barbados, in 1720, m. at St. John's, Antigua, 2 Jan. 1738, to the Hon. and Rev. Francis Byam, rector of St. John's, and counsellor of that island, by whom she had a son, the Hon. Edward Byam, president of Antigua for nearly fifty years, born at St. John's, in 1740, who, failing of male issue, is now represented by his four granddaughters, I. Adelaid; II.. Anne-Byam ; in. Jane-Elizabeth; iv. MariaCatherine, co-heirs of the barony of Lee de Spenser. II. ASHTON, (second brother of Edward Warner, whose lineage is traced above,) speaker of the house of assembly, and attorneygeneral for Antigua, born in 1691, and m. 8 April, 1714, ElizaAnne, (dau. of George Clarke, of Clark's Hill, Antigua, Esq., and relict of Major Samuel Byam,) who died 2 June, 1748. The Hon. Ashton Warner died in Feb. 1752, and was interred in the same vault with his deceased wife, leaving a numerous issue. in. HENRY, (third son of Col. Thomas Warner,) clerk of the assembly, Antigua, in 1724, born in 1693, and buried at the family vault on the Savannah estate, in that island, in 1731, in the 39th year of his age. iv. PHILIP, baptized at St. Paul's, Antigua, and mentioned in his father's will, 27 Sept. 1695, as "my youngest son Philip." * This marriage accounts for the Savannah and Folly estates, having passed into another family. P 3


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